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TPCS 10: Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language in education for Chinese immigrant children in globalization

This article uses an ethnographic approach to explore voicing processes of identity construction among migrant children in China and in the Dutch Chinese diaspora.

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Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies
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By Jie Dong and Yan Dong

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This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among migrant children inside China and in the Dutch Chinese diaspora. It is focused on the education related experiences of Chinese immigrants. We present three examples from our ethnographic fieldwork conducted in China and in the Netherlands to instantiate a theoretical argument: voice is the effect of as well as the condition for communication and the whole process of communication is essentially a voicing process.

Keywords: voice, enregisterment, migration, discursive identity, China

How to quote (APA): Dong, J., & Dong, Y. (2011). Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language in education for Chinese immigrant children in globalization. (Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies; No. 10).

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