Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language and Education of Chinese Immigrant Children in Globalization

Abstract

This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among labor immigrants both inside C hina and in the D utch C hinese D iaspora. 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.