Awards

• Winner of 2013/13 Donald Shepherd Humanities Book Prize 2014 (Canada)
• Winner of Albert B. Corey Prize awarded by the American Historical Association/Canadian Historical Association 2012 (Canada)
• Winner of Bowling Green Book Prize in International or Comparative Policy History 2012 (United States)

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'Karen A. Balcom's The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 is a model of scholarship in transnational policy history. Professor Balcom deals with an important, but largely neglected, aspect of Canadian-American relations -- the movement of babies across national borders through transnational adoptions. This book makes an outstanding contribution to policy history because it examines the interactions of public and private agencies in placing children in adoptive homes, as well as policymaking and implementation at the federal, state and provincial levels on both sides of the border It also makes important contributions to women's history and the history of social welfare, since women in both the U.S. and Canada led the efforts to regulate and rationalize the international movement of adopted children ... In sum, The Traffic in Babies is an outstanding book.' -- Citation for First Bowling Green Prize in Comparative and International Policy History

'Karen A. Balcom's The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 is a model of scholarship in transnational policy history. Professor Balcom deals with an important, but largely neglected, aspect of Canadian-American relations -- the movement of babies across national borders through transnational adoptions. This book makes an outstanding contribution to policy history because it examines the interactions of public and private agencies in placing children in adoptive homes, as well as policymaking and implementation at the federal, state and provincial levels on both sides of the border It also makes important contributions to women's history and the history of social welfare, since women in both the U.S. and Canada led the efforts to regulate and rationalize the international movement of adopted children ... In sum, The Traffic in Babies is an outstanding book.' -- Citation for First Bowling Green Prize in Comparative and International Policy History 'A groundbreaking historical study of the movement of children across borders. While studies of adoption, both domestic and international, have proliferated in recent decades, none goes as far as this one in documenting the process.' -- Judith Modell Schater The American Historical Review; vol 117:03:2012

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Karen A. Balcom is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.

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