Collaboration between INEA and Stichting Adoptiepedia

Collaboration between INEA and Stichting Adoptiepedia

Editors

December 5, 2025

INEA and Stichting Adoptiepedia are launching a collaboration to collect, consolidate, and make accessible information regarding search options for Chinese adoptees. Through this partnership, Stichting Adoptiepedia can provide insight into knowledge and facts concerning relinquishment, adoption, and root-searching. This collaboration is part of a broader initiative by INEA to sustain or build search structures in countries of origin.

Adoptiepedia Foundation

Stichting Adoptiepedia is the advocacy organization for all Chinese and Taiwanese adoptees in the Netherlands. Adoptiepedia focuses on various themes: identity issues, promoting mental health, workshops against racism, cultural empowerment through language lessons, and exploring roots (both biological family and cultural identity).

Collaboration The China Project: ReRoot 归根计划

When adoptees or biological family members decide to search, they often encounter fragmented information, inaccessible archives, and incomplete data. Information regarding DNA tests, banks, and databases in China is often incomplete. Through the collaboration between INEA and the Adoptiepedia Foundation, research into DNA usage is made possible. Additionally, information regarding the circumstances surrounding relinquishment and adoption from China is being mapped out. Finally, research is being conducted into what steps adoptees can take to learn more about their adoption and biological family during a roots journey. There is a need, especially now, to collect, consolidate, and make information accessible to adoptees and biological family members. 

Nikwi (Adoptiepedia Foundation): With this project, we are taking an important step towards a better understanding of the experiences of Chinese parents and their search. Many parents are still searching for their children, whom they lost under various circumstances. This also adds more nuance to the earlier perception that adoptees often had regarding the reasons for their relinquishment: the idea that they were deliberately given up due to the one-child policy turns out not always to be correct.

Linn (INEA) : We are pleased with the collaboration with Stichting Adoptiepedia. Through the research they are able to conduct, knowledge is unlocked and made accessible to adoptees and their (biological) families.