Circulation Families:Investigation of the Formulation of Southeast Asian Immigrant Workers' Families in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yu-hua Cho, 卓玉華
• Other Authors: Leong-Sze Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3f48xb

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞研究所 === 102 === Nearly 500 thousand immigrant workers came over to Taiwan as Transnational immigrants to fulfill the lack of labor force in the country. Besides bringing changes towards current management pattern, their arrival unveil new panorama in the society. As the number of immigrants increase, a situation happen whereby they do not immigrate alone but with their family, forming a cluster of immigrant workers’ families in Taiwan. This study look into the study subject’s family background to find out the reason of their immigration and why Taiwan was chosen on top of the other countries. Through survey and observational studies, the data are presented as follow : 1.Salary protection 2. Labor and healthcare benefit 3. Ease of transportation 4. Conducive environment 5. Variety of appealing means As the immigrant workers flow into the country, family was found to be the main factor that drives the immigration. When there is a spread of immigration experience in the family, they tend to evaluate and came to a decision to immigrate over to Taiwan. They may have family members working in other countries but III IV driven by the factor of distance, time and religion, they are unable to meet up with each other. On the other hand, the ease of transportation, short distance, freedom of religion and also the considering the variety of appealing means and protection of salary, health and labor benefit made Taiwan the first choice in line for those immigrant workers despite having family members working in other countries due to personal factors.