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

尽管自1987年两岸恢复邦交以来，两岸关系日益紧张，但在过去20年里，海峡两岸的结婚人数超过了20万。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，以及两岸夫妇如何在他们的亲密关系中经历有争议的官方关系的影响。她将使用多种方法，包括访谈、政策分析、焦点小组、网络人种学和参与式观察，来调查在婚姻移民、官员、社会服务提供者和台湾公民之间的接触中，公民标准和国家认同的制定。这种对日常公民实践的民族志研究将为我们提供见解，让我们了解公民身份对那些在不同政治背景下社会化，但在其他方面具有文化和种族相似性的群体意味着什么。该项目将有助于人类学和法律研究的新理论发展，涉及与跨国移徙和区域治理形式有关的不断变化的公民模式。这项研究的结果将引起政策制定者、官员和非政府组织的兴趣，他们寻求平衡对国家主权和民主制度的担忧与新的移民压力。这项研究还可能有助于找到缓解台湾海峡紧张局势的途径

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