I live, I want, I act── a cross-boundary trip of settled female immigrants

• Main Authors: TSENG, SU-WEI, 曾素薇
• Other Authors: LU, HUEY-FEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7d72vg

碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 104 === Studies on female marriage immigrants, or “new residents”, in Taiwan are mostly about how they adjusted to the life in early time of arrival, few of them focus on the settled marriage immigrants. The present research aims to settled marriage immigrants. Participants of the study have been lived in Taiwan for more than 10 years on average. They have overcome early adaptation period, no problems with language in daily life, naturalized, ever or still employed. How are these settled female immigrants doing? What do they need? What can social welfare institutions do for them? This thesis is based on the results of a qualitative study conducted in an institution for immigrants in northern Taiwan. To understand the needs of settled marriage immigrants and the impact of the process of joining these empowerment training programs, data was collected from observing immigrants participating training programs in this institution and in-depth interview with 7 settled marriage immigrants, 3 from mainland China and 4 from Vietnam. This study revealed the expressed concerns and hidden issues of these immigrants. The top expressed concern is economy and jobs, followed by parent and children communications. This study also uncovered some hidden issues which reflected their plight in this society. They longed for the support of original family, richer social life and free from discrimination. Under the guidance of the social worker, the participants planned and traveled by themselves to Kenting, organized a group to discuss news and current events, gradually crossed the boundary of geography, psychology and vision. As a result, they grew more confident and pushing back the limits of their environments. At the end of the journey, they decided without the influence of the social worker to do charitable activities dedicated to the elderly. They wanted to show the bright side of new immigrants and earn the respect from this society. How to balance the ideal of empowering the immigrants and the deadline of the empowerment program continually challenged social workers. The social workers in charge of this program were also interviewed to understand how they decided whether to stay on the side line or to intervene.