June 1, 2017

Susan Jacobs Joins International Social Service Board of Directors

Baltimore, MD, (June 1, 2017) – International Social Service-USA is thrilled to announce that Susan S. Jacobs, Former Special Advisor at the U.S. State Department Office of Children’s Issues, has joined its Board of Directors.

Ambassador Jacobs has decades of experience in child protection, child welfare, and international affairs. She was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Bureau of Consular Affairs and previously served as the Bureau’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. In the early 2000s, she acted as the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. From April 1998 to October 2000, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Issues in the State Department's Bureau of Legislative Affairs.

Her prior experience includes serving as the U.S. Consul General in Bucharest, the Senior Policy Advisor to the Commission on Immigration Reform, and the Legislative Management Officer in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs.

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From: Roelie Post

Date: Sun 4. Jun 2017 at 05:45

Subject: Re: ISS USA

To: Arun Dohle

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From Flemish annual report CA - 2017

Exact date not clear

Dutch WOB Ketenoverleg refers to this Geneva meeting too.

And Finish Paper - see attached

https://www.valvira.fi/documents/18508/3375901/Finnish_Adoption_Board_Annual_Report_2017.pdf/2255b2ab-2459-379e-16f8-21a523d21b29

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Van: Jolijn van Haaren

Datum: maandag 11 december 2017

Onderwerp: FW: China adoptee roots

Aan: Deters , "Kruit, mr. drs. Y. van der - BD/RSJ/ADV" , Chamila Seppenwoolde , Iara de Witte , Aysel Sabahoglu | Terre des Hommes

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From: Sarah Burn

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 03:12

Subject: RE: AGD response to your email of 8 October 2017 [DLM=Sensitive]

To: ACT

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From: Mia Dambach

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 6:03 PM

Subject: RE: Searches

To: Arun Dohle

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1blIAfD5fbce6wDrevMeoA2IYEO9ECG0_

Document 2 & 3 included in the link.

Aangekondigd onderzoek naar illegale adoptie maakt veel los

16 december 2018

Op Schiphol komen drie stewardessen aan met weeskinderen (1972) HH/SPAARNESTAD PHOTO

GESCHREVEN DOOR

Helma Coolman en Ben Meindertsma

Related: 30 years later, this Korean adoptee finds ‘home’ again

This isn't unique to me. The US has used children to advance dominant racial, religious and political ideals at the expense of the oppressed and the poor for a long time. And it continues today. The heartwrenching family separation policy at the border that made headlines last year is just one example that has put children at risk for ending up in foster care or adoption, rather than reunification with their families.

Here is what I know: I am culturally American. I am racially Asian. I identify as a Korean adoptee. And while my ethnicity is Korean, I grapple with how Korean I actually feel. I came to the US when I was just over six months old, and a couple years later I was naturalized as an American citizen. I have no physical memory of this, only a faded and tattered photograph of me waving the American flag outside my house on the day of my naturalization ceremony.

While my identity has always been a complex personal journey, I became interested in the history of Korean adoption as a doctoral student. I fell in love with archival research and being transported back in time through historical documents. My personal and professional identities came together, and I wanted to know more about my own history as a Korean adoptee.