Migration to and From Taiwan

Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415657556
• eBook ISBN: 9781135127923
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Migration to and from Taiwan: identities, politics and belonging
• 2 Through the looking glass: migration into and out of Taiwan
• 3 Taiwan and globalization: reflections on the trajectory of Taishang studies
• 4 Bordering careers on China: skilled migration from Taiwan to China
• 5 From being privileged to being localized? Taiwanese businessmen in China
• 6 Happy reunion or brothers only in name? Mainlander Taiwanese in China
• 7 Different places, different voices: early Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants in Canada and Guam
• 8 Two migration documentaries from Taiwan
• 9 Migration through the lens of political advertising: how Taiwanese parties discuss migration
• 10 Home-going or home-making? The citizenship legislation and Chinese identity of Indonesian-Chinese women in Taiwan
• 11 Tactical resistances in daily politics: how do battered Vietnamese wives negotiate family and state tightropes in Taiwan?
• 12 The life adjustment of children from new immigrant families in Taiwan
• 13 Political socialization in domestic families and families with mainland spouses in Taiwan
• 14 The politics of the Mainland spouses' rights movement in Taiwan
• 15 Taiwan's (extra)ordinary migrations
• Index