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Research Article

Attachment as Affective Assimilation: Discourses on Love and Kinship in the Context of Transnational Adoption in Denmark

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Pages 165-177 | Received 17 Feb 2020, Accepted 11 Feb 2021, Published online: 08 Mar 2021

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