| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 89 === The phenomenon of migration to cities is one of the features of the third world countries in the process of development. According to the precious studies on migration to cites in Taiwan, there are some imparity phenomenon distributing in poor or middle-lower level residential areas, but the experiences of female migrations are ignored. This study chose the resettled tenement in Nan Ji Chang Area in Taipei to be the study object, in which the researcher investigates the history of female migrations to cities, social context and the historical context of formation of the resettled tenement, and how sex influences employment, economics and the living networks in the area.
Geography, when dealing with the individuals and social space issues, is mainly based on the structural theory that is added to the theory of time geography. Experts who study time geography think time and space bring about simultaneous incidents, which emphasize the continuity and interconnection of the time sequence that happens within time and space boundary. That the intertwining of the reproduction of a place’s social and cultural forms, the formations of an individual’s socialization and personal history, and the changing of landscapes constitutes, social-space structure of regional level that is connected to both the past and present.
The study found that the female migrants of resettled tenement, although coming to the Nan Ji Chang Area through different routs, have long stayed in inferior positions. Because females from the countryside have no access to personal space under the dominancy of patriarchal system, the conditions of poverty worsen the discrepancy between the sexes. When entering cities from traditional countryside, female individuals have the same social life as they had when they lived in the countryside because of the discrepancy on hierarchy and sexes. They usually cluster in the poorest neighborhoods, and, due to the influences of female life cycle, their lives are closely tied to where they live. Females support their families by doing temporary and unfixed informal economical. The limitations of the gender and hierarchy are reflected in their daily life’s social, living and economic networks. The limitations deepen the ties between the local females and the poor areas they live, and are unveiled within the local females’ time-space routes. However, the research observes local females’ optimistically changing their own living status and participating in community activities, which implies the local females’ dynamics of changing their own situations.
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