All the Vulnerable Boys: Child-Saving Conjured in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Hiro Kanagawa's Indian Arm.

This article compares Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play *Little Eyolf* with *Indian Arm* (2016), an adaptation by Japanese Canadian playwright Hiro Kanagawa, focusing on themes of fostering, adoption, and child-saving. Both plays evoke the liberal project of rescuing and assimilating vulnerable children into dominant cultural norms, with Kanagawa's adaptation explicitly engaging the history and legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada to critique settler-colonial attitudes. The article situates these dramas within broader historical contexts of child-saving practices in Norway and North America, highlighting how such interventions often involved removing children from their families under assumptions of cultural superiority and societal progress. It also discusses the ambivalence and power dynamics inherent in these projects, questioning whose rules and interests are prioritized in adoption and fostering, especially in settler-colonial contexts. The plays conclude with speculative, unresolved futures that reflect ongoing hauntings by histories of displacement, assimilation, and contested belonging.