| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 行政管理碩士學程 === 93 === As the Taiwan’s policies toward foreign spouses have been gradually liberalized, the proportion of Taiwanese people marrying foreign spouses has increased. However, language barriers, cultural assimilations, fragile marriage foundation, the lack of social acceptance and a support network, career welfare, assistance measures, children’s education and the inter-generation issues among the previous, the current, and the next generations have slightly raised the divorce rate of international marriages, and further, worsened and complicated the divorce issues in Taiwan. Issues derived from the divorce of foreign spouses in particular, such as complicated families and negative impact on the social or national image, are not as simple as the domestic divorce cases, and have thus become the focus of scholars and experts.
Based on the panel data of the divorce rate in every city and county in Taiwan collected during 2001 and 2003, this study aims to investigate the following issues: (1) to analyze the relation of divorce rate and the distribution of foreign spouses in every region, and compare the differences; (2) to investigate the decisive factors in raising the divorce rate in Taiwan; (3) to provide substantial suggestions for current policies toward foreign spouses.
The estimation made through a metric model shows regions with a higher proportion of foreign spouses have a higher divorce rate. And the effect is positively correlated. And regions with a higher proportion of foreign spouses from Mainland China than from Southeast Asia nations or others have a higher divorce rate. This proportion is highly correlated to divorce rate. In terms of time period, compared with the base standard of the 2001, the divorce rate in Taiwan in 2003 is significantly higher than that in 2002. The effect of foreign spouses on the divorce rate is relatively higher in eastern regions than in northern, central, and southern regions. As to administrative divisions, the rate is higher in cities than in counties.
To sum up, foreign spouse is an important factor in the divorce rate in every region in Taiwan. However, policies toward foreign spouses and the reduction of divorce rate depend on how the government resolves these issues and improves the performance of the liberalization.
Key word： Divorce rate、Taiwan area、Foreign Spouse。
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