“…Our theoretical framework borrows from critical adoption scholarship that specifically focuses on the affective biopolitics of adoption (Eng, 2003;Myers, 2013a;Stryker, 2010Stryker, , 2013van Wichelen, 2014) and feminist studies of "humanizing" affects such as love, compassion, and empathy (Ahmed, 2004;Berlant, 2001). Our analysis seeks to unpack the logics associated with attachment and love in order to reflect on the significance of these logics for the biopolitical administration of transnational adoption.…”