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Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan

Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan CHIEN-YI LU ¤ I. Introduction Taiwan has recently become a major destination for international migrant workers. Similar to the experience of West European countries that resorted to the guestworker policy between the late 1950s and early 1970s, the in ux of foreign workers to Taiwan was preceded by rapid economic growth and a corresponding labor shortage. Unlike these West European countries, however, Taiwan had the chance to learn from the mistakes made by pioneer guestworker countries and the labor importing countries in Middle East. Equally important is the fact that Taiwan introduced foreign labor at a time when scholars of international migration were Ž nding that the gap between the goals and results of migration-control policies in the industrialized countries was widening. The bulk of current literature on foreign labor policy in Taiwan analyzes this issue from an economic point of view and focuses on the supply and demand of unskilled workers, or “ push and pull factors,” using the terminology from international migration literature. According to the push-pull theory, Taiwan’s foreign labor policy can be explained by the severe shortage of labor in the domestic market and the readily available http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852100512176
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Abstract

Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan CHIEN-YI LU ¤ I. Introduction Taiwan has recently become a major destination for international migrant workers. Similar to the experience of West European countries that resorted to the guestworker policy between the late 1950s and early 1970s, the in ux of foreign workers to Taiwan was preceded by rapid economic growth and a corresponding labor shortage. Unlike these West European countries, however, Taiwan had the chance to learn from the mistakes made by pioneer guestworker countries and the labor importing countries in Middle East. Equally important is the fact that Taiwan introduced foreign labor at a time when scholars of international migration were Ž nding that the gap between the goals and results of migration-control policies in the industrialized countries was widening. The bulk of current literature on foreign labor policy in Taiwan analyzes this issue from an economic point of view and focuses on the supply and demand of unskilled workers, or “ push and pull factors,” using the terminology from international migration literature. According to the push-pull theory, Taiwan’s foreign labor policy can be explained by the severe shortage of labor in the domestic market and the readily available

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2000

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