otherness within others

For me this weeks readings focus on mobility, kinship, citizenship and notion of family/ "home". As we have mentioned in previous weeks mobility in a transnational view symbolizes privilege and only made accessible to those with privilege. In relations to the "eligible adoptee"(45 Kim) whose adopted parents have privilege "combined with an American sense of entitlement and cultural superiority" to chose the orphan they want to be a part of their family. As for me i took Kim's analysis on adopted koreans and their experience to self identify within national, ethnic and familial belongings within their new "homes" as being forced to the subjectivity of being alienated and casted as other. THus, they are can never fully embody white nor be korean enough to korean americans. "Unable to fit normative categories of personhood, demonstrate how identity and kinship are forged at the blurred intersection of the biological and the social"(Kim, 86).