The Silent Body of Migrant Works: Analyzing The Implications of Authority in Taiwan's Medical Policy for Repatriation of Foreign Workers Infected Tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Yu-hui Huang, 黃郁惠
• Other Authors: Wei-hsian Chi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37434945055912708691

碩士 === 南華大學 === 應用社會學系社會學碩士班 === 101 === 　　The purpose of this research aims at examining the implication of power in the medical policy related to repatriation of migrant workers on suspicious of being infected with tuberculosis. Discourse analysis is used as the analysis method of this study. Participant observations, interviews and the literature studying are implemented. Not only macroscopic viewpoints are taken into account, but the microscopic practices of the medical treatments are massively examined for explaining the discursive power in interaction. This study shows: (1) although the purpose of migrating workers is originally based on the reason of economic development, political concerns come along with it and the body of migrant worker becomes the object of political surveillance. (2) Medical examination is part of the process of political surveillance and the medical doctors become the delegate of political function, by providing diagnosis of tuberculosis, instead of a pure agent of medical treatment. (3) The stigmas of diseases result from the influences of politics, economy, policy-making and sanitation services. Most of migrant workers are situated in the dangerous, filthy environment. They are, thus, suffering from health inequality. This study tries to reveal the discriminated aspects regarding the infected migrant workers and suggests some possible policies for reducing the factors affecting the discrimination of migrant workers at the end of this thesis.