eprintid: 8168
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/81/68
datestamp: 2008-02-14 15:42:52
lastmod: 2014-04-03 20:39:18
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:24:31
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sheu, Huey-jen
title: Culture in the Borderlands: "Stories" of Southeast Asian Domestic Workers in Taiwan
title_de: Arbeitsmigrantinnen aus Südostasien in Taiwan
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-300
divisions: i-100700
adv_faculty: af-10
keywords: Arbeitsmigration , Geschlechtsidentität , Taiwan , Südostasienwomen migrant worker , labor migration , gender identity , Taiwan , Southeast Asia
abstract: Migration and mobility is not a new phenomenon in human society. Historically, people have moved from one place to another either for reasons of survival or due to force in terms of slavery. Compared to the past centuries, migration in recent years has increased in dimension for both the sending and the receiving communities. The increase in economic disparities, the internationalization of the market and increasing numbers of individuals seeking employment outside their own countries, and demographic developments all promote this trend. In Taiwan, migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor. Taiwan is becoming a land of dreams and also a land of tears for these migrant women. I interviewed and spent time with dozens of Southeast Asian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as some of their Taiwanese employers. On the basis of these data I collected, I Interweave my analysis with the women's individual stories, and also demonstrate how economic factors, immigration policies, the intermediaries, ethnicity, and gender intersect in the relationship between migrant women and the Taiwanese people. 
abstract_translated_text: Mobilität  war schon immer ein grundlegendes Element von Kultur und Gesellschaft. Allerdings übertrifft die Quantität und die Geschwindigkeit der Bewegung heutzutage  deutlich die  zuvor bekannten Ausmaße. Meine Arbeit behandelt diese spezielle Mobilitätsform – nämlich die internationale Arbeitsmigration-  indem  sowohl die einzelnen Akteure als auch die von ihnen gebildeten Gruppen dargestellt werden. Konkret wird die Dialektik von Migrantinnen, Einheimischen und das Migrationssystem unter verschiedenen Aspekten untersucht. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass Migranten nicht nur zwischen zwei geographischen Orten wandern, sondern auch zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen. Als Wanderer zwischen unterschiedlichen Kulturen befinden sich die Migranten nicht in einem entwurzelten Zustand, sondern im Zentrum ihres Kulturgeschehens.
abstract_translated_lang: ger
date: 2008
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00008168
ppn_swb: 560867158
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-81689
date_accepted: 2008-02-13
advisor: HASH(0x55fc36d65af8)
language: eng
bibsort: SHEUHUEYJECULTUREINT2008
full_text_status: public
citation:   Sheu, Huey-jen  (2008) Culture in the Borderlands: "Stories" of Southeast Asian Domestic Workers in Taiwan.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8168/1/culture_in_the_borderlands_on_line.pdf