Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language and Education of Chinese Immigrant Children in Globalization. (5th June 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dong, Jie; Dong, Yan
• Is Part Of: Anthropology & education quarterly. Volume 44:Number 2(2013:Jun.)
• Page Start: 161
• Page End: 176
• Publication Date: 2013-06-05
• Subjects: Educational anthropology -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Anthropologie et éducation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12013
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0161-7761

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among labor immigrants both inside China and in the Dutch Chinese Diaspora. We provide ethnographically grounded data oriented toward a theoretical point: voicing is an essential problem in communication. Whether one is able to achieve his voice—an outcome of a communicative process—is often conditioned by pretextual factors that exist before and beyond communication, and has to be negotiated in the communicative process.</p> </abstract>