This time we will focus on racism and discrimination and how this affect adoptive families and their children in the Nordic countries.
The main part of the conference is open to the public.
Nordic Adoption Council is an umbrella association of 15 Nordic adoption organisations and is arranging the Nordic Adoption Days every other year - a conference where the public and all interested professionals and others are welcome. This year the conference will be arranged in Stockholm, at Quality Hotel Globe near the Globe Arena in the south of Stockholm. Conference language is English.
The program will include lectures and discussions about the history of inter country adoptions in the Nordic countries, racism and discrimination and how this affects adoptive families and their children, and also the future of inter country adoptions and how our partners in the children's countries of origin look upon the Nordic Adoption Approach.
Excerpts from the program:
Cecilia Lindgren, historian from the University of Linköping, specializing in the history of inter-country adoptions to Sweden
Barbara Yngvesson, professor of anthropology from Boston, Mass. (USA)
Laura Martínez-Mora, lawyer at HCCH in the Hague
Preliminary program for the Open Days. (PDF)
There are options to take part in the conference with or without hotel accomodations. As a day guest all seminars and coffee is included, but not lunch.
Register here.
Last day to register for those who want hotel accomodation: August 26.
Last day to register for day pass participation: September 16.
Questions and more information - send an e-mail to Inga Näslund or contact her by phone +46 8 587 499 50 (from August 15)