收养法律和政策中的姓名:家庭、权利和身份的代表

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-11-11 DOI:10.1332/204674322x16651391589015

Jane Pilcher, A. Coffey

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名字在收养中的重要性越来越高，影响了被收养者的身份和收养家庭的形成。在这篇文章中，我们使用批判性话语分析来衡量在管理和指导英国受收养影响的人的环境的法律和政策文本的特殊性中，如何处理名字，尤其是儿童的名字。我们认为，我们发现的名字内容的包含、遗漏和不透明是文本中“家庭”的基本表征的结果，因此，“家庭姓氏”被视为收养中最突出的命名问题，高于儿童基于名字的身份权。我们对收养中的名字的关注促进了社会学对名字在代表家庭关系和个人身份方面的力量的理解，以及对法律和政策的官方话语如何使某些类型的关系优先于其他关系，以及一些家庭成员的权利优先于其他人的理解。

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Names in adoption law and policy: representations of family, rights and identities

Names have heightened importance in adoption, affecting the identities of individuals who are adopted and adoptive family making. In this article, we use critical discourse analysis to gauge how names, and especially children’s forenames, are addressed in the specificities of legal and policy texts governing and guiding the milieu of people affected by adoption in England. We argue that the inclusions, omissions and opacity of content on names we uncover are outcomes of underlying representations of ‘family’ within the texts, whereby ‘family surnaming’ is constructed as the pre-eminent naming issue in adoption, above children’s forename-based identity rights. Our focus on names in adoption advances sociological understandings of the power of names in representing family relationships and individual identities, and of how official discourses of law and policy can privilege some types of relationships over others, and the rights of some family members over others.

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.