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

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. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.)