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