@article{
   author = {Anderson, Cory and Anderson, Jennifer},
   title = {North America’s Amish-Mennonites Adopt Abroad: The Ideologies and Institutional Conditions That Cracked the Homogeneity of an Ethnic Religion},
   journal = {Social Compass},
   volume = {70},
   number = {3},
   pages = {403-427},
   abstract = {Under what social conditions would ethnic sectarians in developed countries engage in inter-country adoption, grafting ethnically diverse children into their homogeneous contexts? In this article, we present a case study of Amish-Mennonite adoption-oriented children’s homes in underdeveloped countries. As the ethnic sectarian, family-oriented, evangelical Amish-Mennonites met little success proselytizing adults, adoption-oriented children’s home allowed adoptive parents to demonstrate their commitment to mission while maintaining sectarian-style control over a child’s socialization. Ultimately, the children’s homes were short lived, coming and going based on larger geo-political dynamics, signaling that this unusual international adoption project is internally motivated but enabled and constrained by larger institutional contexts. Although the actual percentage of inter-country adoptees to Amish-Mennonite homes is small, this case demonstrates that the right combination of values and broader political dynamics create conditions facilitating migration of children from lesser developed countries into wealthy contexts, a process cracking – even if not fully opening – Amish-Mennonite ethnic/racial homogeneity.},
   DOI = {10.1177/00377686231185930},
   url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00377686231185930},
   year = {2023},
   type = {Journal Article}
}