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1 online resource (499 pages) |
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Routledge Research on Taiwan Series |
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Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Migration to and from Taiwan: identities, politics and belonging; 2 Through the looking glass: migration into and out of Taiwan; 3 Taiwan and globalization: reflections on the trajectory of Taishang studies; 4 Bordering careers on China: skilled migration from Taiwan to China; 5 From being privileged to being localized? Taiwanese businessmen in China; 6 Happy reunion or brothers only in name? Mainlander Taiwanese in China |
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7 Different places, different voices: early Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants in Canada and Guam8 Two migration documentaries from Taiwan; 9 Migration through the lens of political advertising: how Taiwanese parties discuss migration; 10 Home-going or home-making? The citizenship legislation and Chinese identity of Indonesian-Chinese women in Taiwan; 11 Tactical resistances in daily politics: how do battered Vietnamese wives negotiate family and state tightropes in Taiwan?; 12 The life adjustment of children from new immigrant families in Taiwan |
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13 Political socialization in domestic families and families with mainland spouses in Taiwan14 The politics of the Mainland spouses' rights movement in Taiwan; 15 Taiwan's (extra)ordinary migrations; Index |
| Summary |
Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years. The main inflows have been temporary workers from Southeast Asian countries and female spouses from Southeast Asia and China marrying Taiwanese husbands. The main outflow has been migration to China, as a result of increased economic integration across the Taiwan Strait. These changes have significantly altered Taiwan's ethnic structure and have profound social and political implications for this new democracy. As large numbers of these migrants take Taiwanese citizenship and their offspring gain voting rights, the impact of |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Foreign workers -- Taiwan -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- Taiwan -- Social conditions
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Southeast Asians -- Taiwan -- Social conditions
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Taiwanese -- China -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration
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Foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Taiwan -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
China
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Taiwan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fell, Dafydd
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Ping, Lin
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| ISBN |
9781135127923 |
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1135127921 |
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