Attracting FDI” versus “Facilitating ILM”—A Contrast of Vietnamese and Filipino Development Approaches

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Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan: The State Dilemma and People’s Realities

[[abstract]]The role of migrant workers is frequently marginalised amid industrial development, labour shortages, and the domination of state to state arrangements. In fact, the position of migrant workers should be considered as a primary factor in bilateral relations and trade agreements, notably between Indonesia and Taiwan. The reason is that the influx of migrant workers has undoubtedly given many benefits to both Indonesia and Taiwan governments. Nevertheless, based on empirical data, Indonesian migrant workers have own perspectives on the position as both Indonesian citizen as well as foreigner in Taiwan vis-à-vis Indonesia-Taiwan economic relationship. As a non-state actor, they have translated the actual relationship between Indonesia and Taiwan in their daily lives, even via activities never imagined before. The people’s realities experienced by Indonesian workers in Taiwan are far beyond the constraints implied by the state dilemma in Indonesia-Taiwan relations. This paper represents a qualitative research supplemented by information obtained from interviews with Indonesian workers in Taiwan. The authors also intensively contacted and involved through activities with Indonesian workers and communities. Therefore, this article is divided into six parts namely, introduction, the state dilemma and people’s realities, migration of Indonesian workers to Taiwan, people’s realities: “unemployed at home” to “cohered with Taiwanese”, obstacles and opportunities, and concluding remarks.[[notice]]補正完

Look, the World is Watching How We Treat Migrants! The Making of the Anti-Trafficking Legislation during the Ma Administration

Employing the spiral model, this research analyses how anti-human trafficking legislation was promulgated during the Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu) presidency. This research found that the gov- ernment of Taiwan was just as accountable for the violation of mi- grants’ human rights as the exploitive placement agencies and abusive employers. This research argues that, given its reliance on the United States for political and security support, Taiwan has made great ef- forts to improve its human rights records and meet US standards for protecting human rights. The reform was a result of multilevel inputs, including US pressure and collaboration between transnational and domestic advocacy groups. A major contribution of this research is to challenge the belief that human rights protection is intrinsic to dem- ocracy. In the same light, this research also cautions against Taiwan’s subscription to US norms since the reform was achieved at the cost of stereotyping trafficking victimhood, legitimising state surveillance, and further marginalising sex workers

Labor Migration and Regional Changes in East Asia: Outflows of Thai Workers to Taiwan(<Special Issue>Population and Globalization)

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Taiwan: Labour Shortage

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FDI and ILM in the Philippines and Vietnam : a Comparison of Trends and Policies

[[abstract]]The phenomena of intemational labor migration (ILM) and foreign direct investment (FDI) could be best understood as integral pts of economic development. In a parallel paper (paper 1 of this session), the relationship among FDI, ILM and economic development was summarized in a framework of the Investment-MigrationDevelopment Path (IMDP). Nevertheless, the IMDP approach assumes an ideal situation where there are no impediments to FDI or ILM. Both FDI and ILM arise to equilibrate disparities in factor rewards driven by different levels of economic development across countries. In reality, ILM and FDI are constrained by complex economic, institutional and policy variables. The interactions of these variables jointly determine the shape and position of the two curves of net FDI and net ILM in the IMDP. Most Westem developed countries experienced problems related to ILM and FDI policies during various stages of economic growth. To a large extent, the unprecedented upsurge of the two factor movements in East and Southeast Asia since the mid-1980s has also reflected the working of the market mechanism. Differential levels of economic development and different speeds of economic growth lead to growing income disparity as well as diverging labor market transformations. The “pull&quot; and “push&quot; forces are generated to equalize capital and labor rewards across the markets in different countries. The Philippines and Vietnam are two major countries in Southeast Asia which have taken rather different approaches to economic development. In the part two decades, Vietnamese govemment has been aggressive in attracting FDI and achieved impressive results. On the contrary, the Filipino authorities have been more concemed about ILM in the sense of actively facilitating the export of their workers abroad. The country has successfully gained huge amount of remittances from ILM. This paper will first examine the experiences in FDI and ILM in relation to economic development of the Philippines and Vietnam in the context of the IMDP. It will further attempt to develop some propositions about how different development ideologies and policies taken by the two countries have shaped their respective FDI and ILM trajectories. The effects of atrracting FDI and facilitataing ILM will finally be examined by assessing the degress in reducing the umemployment pressure for each of the two coumtries.[[sponsorship]]Tamkang University; National Science Council; Minisry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Education[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencetkucampus]]淡水校園[[conferencedate]]20110331~20110331[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]新北市, 臺

Clandestine Labor Migration to Taiwan

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Migration, Marriage and Work:from “Contract Workers” to “Immigrant Spouses”among Thais in Taiwan

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Southeast Asian Workers in Taiwan: Issues and Responses

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The Value of Unpaid Work by Women: An Assessment for Taiwan

[[cooperationtype]]國外[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]2001 09 23~2001 09 26[[booktype]]紙本[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Canberra, Australi