Belonging beyond the Deficit Label: the Experiences of 'Non-Chinese Speaking' Minority Students in Hong Kong

Autor/inn/en	Gao, Fang; Lai, Chun; Halse, Christine
Titel	Belonging beyond the Deficit Label: the Experiences of 'Non-Chinese Speaking' Minority Students in Hong Kong
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40 (2019) 3, S.186-197 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gao, Fang) ORCID (Lai, Chun) ORCID (Halse, Christine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2018.1497042
Schlagwörter	Language Minorities; Multilingualism; Second Languages; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Refugees; Cultural Pluralism; Social Integration; Social Change; Racial Differences; Social Bias; Sino Tibetan Languages; Mandarin Chinese; Politics; Self Concept; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachminderheit; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Second language; Zweitsprache; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling; Kulturpluralismus; Soziale Integration; Sozialer Wandel; Rassenunterschied; Politik; Selbstkonzept; Hongkong
Abstract	How migrants, refugees and minority groups acquire a sense of belonging in their adopted society is a concern for nations worldwide as they aim to balance the diversity and inclusion of growing numbers of migrants with ensuring harmony and cohesion across society. In postcolonial Hong Kong, the population diversity is accompanied with a swift change in the racialisation of Hong Kong where minorities in schools find themselves categorised as 'non-Chinese speaking' ('NCS') rather than a 'Hongkonger'. The NCS label stigmatises young people as linguistically and academically deficit, de-legitimises acceptance by the local Chinese, Cantonese speaking majority designated as 'Hongkongers'. Yet how minority youth interpret their status as 'NCS' and negotiate belonging in Hong Kong has received scant attention. This qualitative study is a substantive and theoretical contribution to the literature on how multilingual minorities can construct a positive sense of place-belonging to their adopted city. Reflecting the contentious nature of the politics of belonging, we found that students challenged and sought to redefine the narrow, prevailing identity of a 'Hongkonger'. Rather, they stressed their multilingual identity, historical affiliations, emotional attachments and place-belongingness to the city in order to legitimate their entitlement to sociopolitical belonging in Hong Kong. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01