| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會工作學研究所 === 103 === There are many exotic restaurants in Taiwan, which are owned and managed by immigrant women. This means that the immigrant women’s employment opportunities are no longer limited to employees or atypical labor work. Entrepreneurship gradually becomes the alternative. Among others, micro-enterprise is the most popular. Although micro-enterprise is easy to approach, there is risk to some degree. What are the concerns for the immigrant women in entrepreneurship? How to practice entrepreneurship by accumulating capital in the society? How does entrepreneurship change their life? In order to respond the previous questions, this study explores the immigrant women’s micro-enterprise experience. By qualitative research method, this study collected data by in-depth interviews with 8 immigrants with entrepreneurship living in Taipei, Hsinchu and Tainan.
According to the results, the immigrant women’s backgrounds of entrepreneurship are conflict between job and responsibility of care, attraction of advantages of entrepreneurship and self-realization. In the preparation of entrepreneurship, the subjects decide the scale of enterprise according to personal resources. The capital is mostly the personal saving. Few of them are supported by husbands or relatives who arrived in Taiwan in early times. They are conservative about the plan of entrepreneurship loan offered by government. As to technique of entrepreneurship, it is mainly based on the subjects’ past work experience and the second is their learning for the plan of entrepreneurship. In the operation of enterprise, for the concern of business, besides the emphasis on selected materials, they promote the business by marketing strategies, such as delivery or customized service. In the process, the obstacles are inevitable. They encounter the problems of capital, personnel affairs or change of locations. They mostly deal with the crisis by informal resources. However, they are not successful all the time. In entrepreneurship, they experience happiness and difficulty. For most of the immigrant women, it is their turning point. They obtain economic autonomy and reinforce status in family. In comparison to jobs as employees, they have more flexible time. They control work and life. More importantly, they find the possibility of class flow by entrepreneurship.
Finally, this study suggests that Taiwan government should provide more appropriate and approachable guidance plan of entrepreneurship, pay attention to immigrant’ multiple cultural characteristics, assist with development and use the advantages. Practical workers must fully control community resources and effectively construct supply-demand network to provide friendlier environment of entrepreneurship for the immigrant women.
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