Migration To And From Taiwan

Author : Kuei-fen Chiu,Dafydd Fell,Lin Ping
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135127930

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Migration to and From Taiwan by Kuei-fen Chiu,Dafydd Fell,Lin Ping Pdf

Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years. The main inflows have been temporary workers from Southeast Asian countries and female spouses from Southeast Asia and China marrying Taiwanese husbands. The main outflow has been migration to China, as a result of increased economic integration across the Taiwan Strait. These changes have significantly altered Taiwan’s ethnic structure and have profound social and political implications for this new democracy. As large numbers of these migrants take Taiwanese citizenship and their offspring gain voting rights, the impact of these "new Taiwanese" will continue to increase. This book showcases some of the leading researchers working on migration to and from Taiwan. The chapters approach migration from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including international relations, sociology, social work, film studies, political science, gender studies, geography and political economy and so the book has great appeal to scholars and students interested in the politics of Taiwan, Taiwanese society and ethnic identity as well as those focusing on migration in East Asia and comparative migration studies.

Author : Beatrice Zani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000485639

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Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan by Beatrice Zani Pdf

This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalisation; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic independence, upward social mobility and modernity, but discover the Chinese inegalitarian social order and labour regimes which produce obstacles and impede their ambitions; and how old and new forms of subalternity are reproduced. Overall, the book emphasises what it feels like for the women migrants as they negotiate their way at the crossroad between subalternity and resistance, between subordinated labour and independent, digital entrepreneurship, and between an inegalitarian labour market and new, online opportunities for business and commerce.

Author : Hsiang-Shui Chen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721366

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Chinatown No More by Hsiang-Shui Chen Pdf

By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.

Author : Ken Chih-Yan Sun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501754890

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Time and Migration by Ken Chih-Yan Sun Pdf

Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration" to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints across borders. The interplay between migration and time shapes the ways aging migrant populations reassess and reconstruct relationships with their children, spouses, grandchildren, community members, and home, as well as host societies. Aging, Sun argues, is a global issue and must be reconsidered in a cross-border environment.

Author : Sara L. Friedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520286221

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Exceptional States by Sara L. Friedman Pdf

"Between 10% and 20% of marriages in Taiwan involve the union of a Taiwanese national with a Chinese immigrant, with as many as 13,000 cross-Strait couples registering new unions each year. Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and governance emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War legacies continue to shape contemporary political struggles over sovereignty and citizenship. This book poignantly and respectfully documents the struggle of these immigrant Chinese women as they seek belonging, acceptance, and recognition in their new land. The women's experiences parallel Taiwan's own desire to receive recognition from the international community as a sovereign nation-state. By tracing these political parallels, the book shows how Chinese marital immigrants are affected by Taiwan's own uncertain political status in relation to China in ways that marital immigrants from other Asian countries are not. Exceptional States illustrates the social, political and subjective consequences of immigrants who are living with this exceptional status. The book concludes with a discussion of how Chinese spouses' efforts to create a sense of belonging for themselves across the fluid waters of the Taiwan Strait offer possible insights into solving Taiwan's current sovereignty challenges"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Yu-Ling Ku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9670630029

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Our Stories by Yu-Ling Ku Pdf

Author : Melissa J. Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520231825

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Is Taiwan Chinese? by Melissa J. Brown Pdf

Annotation Melissa Brown looks at the issue of Tiawan - specifically whether or not the Taiwanese are of Chinese/Han ethnicity (as is claimed by the Chinese government) - or is there in fact a Taiwanese ethnicity that is in fact unique unto itself (as the Taiwanese claim).

Author : Ken Chih-Yan Sun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501754883

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Time and Migration by Ken Chih-Yan Sun Pdf

Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration" to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints across borders. The interplay between migration and time shapes the ways aging migrant populations reassess and reconstruct relationships with their children, spouses, grandchildren, community members, and home, as well as host societies. Aging, Sun argues, is a global issue and must be reconsidered in a cross-border environment.

Author : Pei-Chia Lan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822337428

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Global Cinderellas by Pei-Chia Lan Pdf

Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with dozens of Filipina and Indonesian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as many of their Taiwanese employers. On the basis of the vivid ethnographic detail she collected, Lan provides a nuanced look at how boundaries between worker and employer are maintained and negotiated in private households. She also sheds light on the fate of the workers, “global Cinderellas” who seek an escape from poverty at home only to find themselves treated as disposable labor abroad. Lan demonstrates how economic disparities, immigration policies, race, ethnicity, and gender intersect in the relationship between the migrant workers and their Taiwanese employers. The employers are eager to flex their recently acquired financial muscle; many are first-generation career women as well as first-generation employers. The domestics are recruited from abroad as contract and “guest” workers; restrictive immigration policies prohibit them from seeking permanent residence or transferring from one employer to another. They care for Taiwanese families’ children, often having left their own behind. Throughout Global Cinderellas, Lan pays particular attention to how the women she studied identify themselves in relation to “others”—whether they be of different classes, nationalities, ethnicities, or education levels. In so doing, she offers a framework for thinking about how migrant workers and their employers understand themselves in the midst of dynamic transnational labor flows.

Author : Fiona Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487500016

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Global Taiwanese by Fiona Moore Pdf

Illuminating how the identities of Taiwanese diasporic subjects are contextually and historically shaped, this book advances a nuanced, complex, and differentiated understanding of globalization.

Author : Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478120

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The Great Exodus from China by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Pdf

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines the human exodus from China to Taiwan in 1949, focusing on trauma, memory, and identity.

Author : Jessica J. Lee
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 0349011044

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Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee Pdf

I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea, the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao, 'island') built from the relationship between earth and sky. Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures, Taiwan is an island of extremes: high mountains, exposed flatlands, thick forests. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, written on the cusp of his total memory loss, Jessica J Lee hunts his story, in parallel with exploring Taiwan, hoping to understand the quakes that brought her family from China, to Taiwan and Canada, and the ways in which our human stories are interlaced with geographical forces. Part-nature writing, part-biography, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.

Author : Chieh Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000088281

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Family Migration and the Path to an Occupation by Chieh Hsu Pdf

This book sheds light on the invisible early post-arrival period of female family migrants, traditionally considered to be low skilled or professionally quiescent. With attention to the experiences of Chinese and Taiwanese women married to German men, it examines the ways in which the private sphere—marked by intermarriage couple dynamics and native–foreigner relations—constitutes the main locus of women’s socialization in the host country, as interactions with their intimate partners in the family realm shape both their self-conceptions and their employment intentions. Based on interviews with migrant women and their spouses, the author outlines the subject positions that characterize female migrants’ attitudes to external constructs and entering the labor market, showing that female family migrants frequently take on family migrant and wife roles that permeate intimate relationships and impede employment intentions, but also often strive to realign with their pre-departure independent selves and thus regain agency. A study of gender dynamics and labor market entry among newly arrived female migrants, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in gender, migration, and work.

Author : J. Bruce Jacobs,Peter Kang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351794930

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Changing Taiwanese Identities by J. Bruce Jacobs,Peter Kang Pdf

The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different cultures and migrations throughout the island’s history. In the 20th and early 21st centuries especially it has been a stage for cultural and ethnic conflict, not least because of the arrival of mainland Chinese fleeing the Chinese Communist Revolution. The subsequent tensions between those who see Taiwan as a natural territory of China and those who would prefer to see it remain independent have brought to the fore questions of what it is to be ‘Taiwanese’. This book addresses the question of how Taiwanese identities have changed after the Taiwanization process which began in the 1990s. It also examines the impact of this process on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China after the return of the Kuomintang to power after 2008 and the Sunflower movement in 2014. The various contributors between them cover a range of topics including the waves of migration to Taiwan, changes of political regimes, generational differences and social movements. Taken as a whole, this book presents a nuanced picture of the patchwork of identities which exist in contemporary Taiwan.

Author : Maria W. L. Chee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Families
ISBN : UCR:31210017934496

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Migration, Globalization, and Women in Taiwanese American Transnational Families by Maria W. L. Chee Pdf