Author

Karen Balcom

Institution: McMaster University

Observed institution: McMaster University

OpenAlex ID: A5000802857

The Logic of Exchange: The Child Welfare League of America, The Adoption Resource Exchange Movement and the Indian Adoption Project, 1958–1967

2007 · Karen Balcom · Adoption & Culture · 37

Critical Adoption Studies: Conversation in Progress

2018 · Margaret Homans, Peggy Phelan, et al. · Adoption & Culture · 24

The Traffic in Babies

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 15

The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972

2011 · Karen Balcom · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 12

"Phony Mothers" and Border-Crossing Adoptions: The Montreal-to-New York Black Market in Babies in the 1950s

2007 · Karen Balcom · Journal of women's history · 10

Constructing Families, Creating Mothers: Gender, Family, State and Nation in the History of Child Adoption

2006 · Karen Balcom · Journal of women's history · 8

Scandal and Social Policy: The Ideal Maternity Home and the Evolution of Social Policy in Nova Scotia, 1940-51

2002 · Karen Balcom · Érudit (Université de Montréal) · 6

Cultures of Transnational Adoption

2006 · Karen Balcom · Journal of American Ethnic History · 3

Mona Gleason and Tamara Myers, eds., Bringing Children & Youth into Canadian History: The Difference Kids Make

2018 · Karen Balcom · Historical Studies in Education / Revue d histoire de l éducation

“A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”

2013 · Karen Balcom · University of British Columbia Press eBooks

4. Cross-Border Placements for Catholic Children from Quebec, 1945–1960

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

3. The Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947–1949

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

5. Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954–1964

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

6. Promoting and Controlling Cross-Border Adoption, 1950–1972

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

1. Charlotte Whitton and Border Crossings in the 1930s

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Conclusion: ‘A “No Man’s Land” of Jurisdiction

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2. Border-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945–1947

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Introduction: Babies across Borders

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2011 · Karen Balcom · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2011 · Bess A. Rose, Karen Balcom · Journal of Children and Poverty

Punching the Clock: Working in Canadian Factories, 1840s–1980s Exhibition by Carol Anderson, … and Still I Rise: A History of African Canadian Workers in Ontario, 1900 to Present by Adrienne Shadd (review)

2003 · Karen Balcom · Canadian Historical Review

Works count: 23

Citation count: 115

H-index: 6

I10-index: 5