Invisible Asians with Kim Park Nelson

In the years after the Korean War, more than 160,000 Korean children were adopted by families in Western countries. In Minnesota today, there are more Korean-American adoptees per capita than any other state. While researchers have studied the experiences of Korean-American adoptees, many of those studies have relied heavily on questions for the adoptive parents, according to Kim Park Nelson. It's time to ask the adoptees themselves, she said. In her book, Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson draws on the experiences of more than 60 adult adoptees to tell the stories and unpack some of shared experiences of this group of people in Minnesota. This program took place at 3 locations in the LARL region on November 1 and 2, 2017.