The Study of Empowerment of Newly Immigrant Women – Take Members of “TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan” as Example

• Main Author: 張婉如
• Other Authors: 游美惠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60658097005041636674

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 性別教育研究所 === 96 === This research, based on feminism, focused on the progress of empowerment of those newly immigrant women to Taiwan. This research listened to their stories and unleashed their living experiences, how they empowered and acted themselves through learning, working and social commitment, and how they try to alter the stereotyped image of newly immigrant women. This research used qualitative research method and took the newly immigrant women of first cross-country organization – “TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan” (TASAT) as the research targets, 6 members of that Association were thoroughly interviewed, and it was found that they not only earned their own achievement, created power, but also turns peoples’ viewpoint toward them and influenced decision making of their communities and public affairs. They transformed themselves from “learners” in Chinese language class to “teachers” of multicultural curriculums, from those who needed to be “assisted” to those who “assist” police to solve some legal issues where interpretation is need. TASAT is an ideal place to empower their members for a better life, newly immigrant women now have achieved significantly, they are no longer considered as social problem, they bring new blood to our society, they are new assets to Taiwan. It is recommended that government or non-government organizations should arrange more training courses or activities to better empower newly immigrant women in the future.