Historia Critica
Volume 38, 2009, Pages 146-171

Kidnapping and adoption: The institutional circuit of the criminal appropriation of children in Argentina, 1976-1983 [De secuestros y adopciones: El circuito institucional de la apropiación criminal de niños en Argentina (1976-1983)] (Review)

Villalta C.*
  • a Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas, CONICET, Argentina, Equipo de Antropología Política Y Jurídica, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, UBA, Argentina

Abstract

By analyzing cases of appropriated children who were put up for adoption during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), this article examines the institutional machinery, bureaucratic routines, and the prevailing social feelings during those years with regard to these adoptions. It describes and contextualizes the values associated with adoption, the narratives about child abandonment, and the everyday procedures and practices that formed the environment in which the criminal appropriation of children was normalized and attempted to be made legal.

Author Keywords

Appropriation of children Campo de la minoridad Adoption Argentine military dictatorship justice

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70949099596&partnerID=40&md5=01539ff7ac9f7ef64fb494278d8cc666
ISSN: 01211617
Cited by: 1
Original Language: Spanish