| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 臺灣文化學系 === 104 === Abstract
This thesis is to explore the Indonesian female migration who start ups ethnic business in Hualien City. Further attention is paid to the daily activity of the owners, costumers and neighborhood as well as considers possible factors which contribute to the ethnic business in Hualien City. The study aims to provide the information about both everyday matters and Indonesian ethnic business for migrant and local people. Activity occurs between personal and personal, personal and group then group and group. In everyday practices entrepreneurs first accommodate the basic material need of migrant workers and develop social cohesion among them. Second, entrepreneurs engage in mutual relationship in their developing ethnic social networks in Hualien City. In doing so, it aims to establish a framework of analysis for describe which moves beyond to everyday matters in the shop among Indonesian communities both in sociality and materiality aspect. For its framework, the study drawn on the marriage migration, migration in the everyday matters perspective, map to see the located of Indonesian shops around Hualien City and discussion of the role of the every Indonesian shop engage with social relations and material cultures. This paper is based on the fieldwork with observations of participants’ daily activities from May to December 2015. The fourteen participants including owners, employees, customers and cadres conducted to in- depth and open- ended interviews. According to this study, I find the variety ways how the Indonesian shops in Hualien City developed. Then the location of Indonesian shops showed the strategic business for easy to reach their customers. Last but not least the important role of Indonesian shops to provide from the commodity, food, remittance, religious services until forming an ethnic organization/ community.
Key Words: Indonesian migrants, Hualien City, ethnic business, everyday matters, ethnic community
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