Work > Undoing Adoption

Undoing Adoption is a critical line of work devoted to dismantling adoption as an institution of substitution, erasure of origin, identity violence and documentary destruction of filiation.

The texts published in this section form part of a conceptual and political elaboration on plenary adoption, closed adoption, identicide, the abolition of adoption and their legal, symbolic and registry effects.

Aboliphobia / Abolifobia

Neologism proposed to name the symbolic, defensive and institutional violence directed against abolitionist thought on adoption.

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English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17443405
Español · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17443569

Identicide / Identicidio

Central concept for naming the institutional destruction of natal identity through the legal, documentary and symbolic substitution of origin.

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English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457583
Español · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457497

Abolition of Identicide / Abolición del identicidio

Abolitionist framework against the legal, social and documentary practices that erase, substitute or destroy identity of origin.

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English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17458107
Español · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457819

Adoption as Colonial Identicidal Genocide

Critical text on adoption, coloniality, displacement, alienation, indoctrination and the elimination of origins and roots.

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Español · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17590564

The Registry Stigma of Adoption

Analysis of the civil registry as a space of inscription, concealment, legal marking and documentary persistence of adoptive stigma.

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Español · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20159685