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Research ArticleBelonging, Identity, and Collective Healing

Exceptional Silence

Adoption, Emotional Service, and Resistance

Ellen Nyman
Scandinavian Studies, July 2026, 98 (3) 148-155; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.98.3.148
Ellen Nyman
Ellen Nyman (ellen.nyman{at}uniarts.se) is a Doctoral Researcher in Acting at Stockholm University of the Arts.
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    1. Bosseldal, Ingrid.
    2024. “Traces in the History of Swedish Transnational Adoption—A Diffractive Mapping Through the Voices of Adoptees and Their Parents.” Genealogy 8 (2): 67. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8020067.
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