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  • 1 - Adopting Modern Slavery

  • Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida
  • Book:
    Second-Class Daughters
    Published online:
    10 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 36-57

  • Summary

    In Chapter 1, the author highlights the structural factors (racism, sexism, poverty, rural residence) and individual-level traumas (abuse and violence) that precipitate young destitute girls’ entrance into criação. In doing so, she discusses how the prevalence of paternalistic views about Black families and the system of favors legitimates the adoptive family’s efforts to reframe exploitation as altruism or philanthropy. She highlights the disparate trajectories of the respondents by emphasizing the varying conditions and diverse forms of poly-victimization that drive their transfer into criação. The chapter dispels dominant myths that either demonize or romanticize criação in exchange for a more nuanced, even if uneasy analysis of the structural and individual factors that precipitate criação.