Actuación desde el Trabajo Social en casos de ASI

Or if you want to stop the interview at any time just let me know.

To start, I’d like to ask you about your early family experiences.

I. Early Experiences: Family

1. Please describe for me what you know about your adoption. • In what year were you adopted? How old were you then? • Do you know how you were given up for adoption? Found?

2. Do you know why your parents decided to adopt?

3. How did your parents tell you that you were adopted? • How old were you?

• Was your adoption a regular topic of conversation, just a natural thing to mention? Why or why not?

4. Please describe for me your family that you grew up with? • Parents  Race? Still married?

• Siblings? # of siblings? Your placement? • Were any of them adopted also? From where?

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5. Was there ever a time when you did NOT feel like a full member of the family? • Your Immediate family?

• Your Extended family?

6. How did your family celebrate your adoption? [If they did something]

• Did your family do anything special every year on this day? [gift, card, special dinner?]

• What did this mean to you?

• How did your siblings feel about this? [If they did not do anything]

• Do you wish they had?

7. What did your family tell you about the country you were born in? It’s culture? Values?

• How did they do this?

• Did they incorporate any aspects of your birth culture into your life? [If YES] What were those?

• Did these aspects include the entire family? How so? • What did this mean to you?

[If NO] Do you wish they had?

• What would this have meant to you?

8. Who could you talk to in your family about your birth family and/or adoption? • Why them?

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9. Have you ever wanted to search for your birth family?

[If YES] What would it mean to you to find your birth family? [If NO] Why not?

10. Have there been times when you wished you were of a different racial background?

[If YES] How often? • When? Why?

• Did these feelings change over the years? How so?

11. What did your family say to you about discrimination or racism you might face?

[If YES] Who talked to you about this? How did they do so? • Did they ever suggest ways to deal with such incidents? • How old were you at the time?

• How did talking about this make you feel? • What meaning did it have for you then?

• Has that meaning changed for you over the years? [If NO] Do you wish they had? Why or why not?

• What would this have meant to you?

12. Did your family ever visit a historically Asian American area like a Chinatown or a Japanese American Internment site?

[If YES] How did you feel about this trip? • What meaning did it have for you?

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[If NO] Would you have liked to? Why or why not?

• What would a trip like this have meant to you?

13. Was your family involved in support groups or friendships with other transracial adoptees and their families?

• How did you meet?

• What kinds of activities did you do together? • How long did the relationship last?

• Why did it end?

• How did you feel about these interactions? [Like them? Felt obligated? etc.]

14. Are you involved in any now as an adult?

15. Were you ever involved in a formal group or organized activity that was offered by an adoption agency or organization?

[Heritage camps or picnics, ethnic schooling, a homeland tour, etc.] [If YES] Please describe it to me.

• Was it group-based?

• Only for adoptees?

• At what ages were you involved? • What activities did you do?

• How did you feel about your participation?

• Did other people in your family use the services or participate in programs? [parents, siblings, etc.]

• How did you feel about their participation? [If NO] Do you wish you had been? Why or why not?

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• Looking back now, do see any positive things that could have come out of participating in any programs or groups? Like what?

16. As an adult have you participated in any formally organized programs or groups?

17. Why do you think your parents wanted you to participate in these programs? • What did you actually get out of it?

• Did your experiences match their expectations?

18. As you experienced them, would you recommend these programs or groups to young transracial adoptees today?

• Why or why not?

• What parts of the program would you change? Why?

• Would it have made a difference if the programs had been run by a person of color?

• By a transracial adoptee? Why or why not?

19. If services had been around when you were at this age, like mentoring by older transracial adoptees or chat rooms to talk to other adoptees about any issue, do you think you would you have used them?

• Why or why not?

20. Many adoptee programs and organizations are designed for individual ethnic groups like Korean adoptee groups and then separate ones for Chinese adoptees.

• If they were set up for racial groups rather than ethnic groups, would this appeal to you? Why or why not?

• Which structure would you prefer? Why?

21. Most post-adoption services for transracial adoptees focus on teaching adoptees about parts of their birth country and culture like fan dances or how to

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cook traditional foods. Would this have been interesting to you when you were younger? Why?

• What about now? Why?

22. What if these programs focused more on racial awareness, the history of race and ethnicity in the United States, and how to understand racism.

• Would programs like these been appealing to you when you were younger? Why?

• What about now? Why?

II. Early Experiences: Neighborhood and School

Now I’m going to ask you some questions about where you grew up