Citizenship as Official and Everyday Practice: Chinese Marital Immigrants in Taiwan

尽管自1987年恢复官方关系以来，中国大陆和台湾的关系日益紧张，但过去20年来，台湾海峡两岸的婚姻超过20万对。 在这个项目中，Sara Friedman博士将研究这些婚姻对台湾公民身份和国家认同的法律的和文化观念的影响。 她将研究有关台湾移民和公民身份的辩论，公民身份正式定义的转变，两岸婚姻在改变这些定义中的作用，以及两岸夫妇如何体验有争议的官方关系在亲密关系中的影响。她将使用各种方法，包括访谈，政策分析，焦点小组，基于网络的民族志和参与者观察，以调查婚姻移民，官员，社会服务提供者，这项对日常公民实践的民族志研究将提供对社会化群体的公民意义的见解在不同的政治背景下，但在文化和种族上有相似之处。该项目将促进人类学和法律的研究中有关跨国移徙和区域治理形式的公民身份模式变化的新理论发展。这项研究的结果将是感兴趣的政策制定者，官员和非政府组织谁寻求平衡对国家主权和民主制度与新的移民压力的关注。 这项研究还可能有助于为缓和台湾海峡两岸的紧张局势开辟途径

Despite increasingly tense relations between China and Taiwan since official ties were renewed in 1987, the last two decades have witnessed more than 200,000 marriages across the Taiwan Strait. In this project, Dr. Sara Friedman will study the impact of these marriages on the legal and cultural notions of citizenship and national identity in Taiwan. She will examine debates about Taiwan's immigration and citizenship, shifts in formal definitions of citizenship, the role of cross-Strait marriages in changing those definitions, and how cross-Strait couples experience the effects of contentious official ties in their intimate relationships. She will use a variety of methodologies, including interviews, policy analysis, focus groups, web-based ethnography, and participant observation to investigate the formulation of citizenship standards and national identity in the encounters between marital immigrants, officials, social service providers, and Taiwanese citizens.This ethnographic study of everyday citizenship practices will offer insights into what citizenship means to groups who have been socialized in different political contexts but who otherwise share cultural and ethnic similarities. The project will contribute to new theoretical developments in anthropology and legal studies concerning changing citizenship models in relation to transnational migration and regional forms of governance. The outcomes of this research will be of interest to policy makers, officials, and NGOs who seek to balance concerns about state sovereignty and democratic institutions with new immigration pressures. The research also may aid efforts to develop avenues for diminishing tensions across the Taiwan Strait