Subversions of the social hierarchy: social closure as adaptation strategy by the female marriage migrants of Taiwan
Subversions of the social hierarchy: social closure as adaptation strategy by the female marriage migrants of Taiwan
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社会等级的颠覆：台湾女性婚姻移民的社会封闭适应策略
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2011
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Y. Kuo
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Y. Kuo
本研究探讨婚姻移民女性如何运用各种形式的社会封闭来帮助她们适应接受社会。至于妇女移徙本身，尽管它已开始在移徙流中占主导地位，但尚未在移民研究中将其作为一种独特现象加以讨论和理论化。然而，必须从国际重婚的角度来看待这一现象，这种现象在许多国家，特别是东亚国家已成为一种日益明显的趋势。女性婚姻移民，主要来自东南亚国家和中国大陆来台湾，往往被主流话语描述为低人一等。本研究发现，借由创造或改变社会封闭，这些婚姻移民女性得以重塑其群体身份，在阶层中重新定位自己，至少在自己的思想参数内，从而科普台湾社会的歧视性环境和不利的社会等级。
This study explores how female marriage migrants employ various forms of social closure to help them adapt to the receiving society. As for female migration itself, although it has begun to dominate the migration flow it has not yet been discussed and theorized as a unique phenomenon in immigration studies. This phenomenon must, however, be viewed within the context of international hypergamy, which has become an increasingly notable trend in many countries, especially those of East Asia. Female marriage migrants, coming to Taiwan chiefly from Southeast Asian countries and from China, often are depicted by the mainstream discourse as being inferior. This study has found that by creating, and in some cases transforming, social closure, these female marriage migrants are able to reshape their group identity, to reposition themselves within the stratification at least within the parameters of their own minds, and thereby to cope with the discriminatory environment and unfavorable social hierarchy of Taiwanese society.