| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 生物產業傳播暨發展學研究所 === 101 === This thesis aims to explore the general attitudes toward foreign workers in East Asia. The increasing demand for foreign labor has raised a series of debates on whether or not this would help economic growth and social cohesion in this region. In addition to socio-demographic characteristics such as sex, age, education and residence, previous studies have indicated that the anti-immigration sentiment is highly associated with personal perceptions of labor-market competition, racial prejudice and patriotism. Obviously, the more individuals have cultural contacts with foreigners, the less likely they would oppose to importing foreign workers.
The current study tries to identify the effects of major determinants associating with individuals’ attitudes toward foreign workers in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Using data from the 2008 East Asian Social Survey (EASS), the culture and globalization module, the results show that there are more Taiwanese and Koreans revealed anti-immigration sentiment than their Japanese counterparts. Based on the outcomes of ordered logistic regression models, the negative attitudes toward foreign workers are associated with personal racial prejudice and patriotism as previous studies. The lack of cultural contact with foreigner also decreases the degree of acceptance of labor immigration. The argument of labor market competition theory is evidenced partially. Blue-collar workers in Taiwan and Japan are least likely to accept labor migrants.
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