Identity of Marriage Migration of Chinese Females: Subject Discourse and Identification in Postcolonial Context

• Main Authors: Chia-Chi Lin, 林嘉琪
• Other Authors: Jia-Ming Zhang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33853431813299690301

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會學系 === 95 === From the perspective of postcolonial discourse, this study dissects the work right and citizenship of “marriage migration of Chinese females” in Taiwan in an effort to understand their identity and the process of subject formation, examines the adequacy of current cross-strait marriage policies, and probes into the colonial problems in Taiwan. Indeed, the investigation into the right to of “marriage migration of Chinese females” has been directed at understanding the definition of sovereignty and politics of identity in Taiwan. Two major findings are obtained in this study. First, the Taiwanese have always held a controller’s attitude for “marriage migration of Chinese females.” Political and legal discourses are later adopted to justify their dominance and the intent of colonization. These females, however, are able to embody the internal differences, manifest a reflective female subject, and develop complicated and even ambivalent identification. Secondly, “marriage migration of Chinese females” have become the subject and object of desires at the same time for the reason that “Taiwanese males’ empire dream” and “Taiwan dream” of these Chinese females,” brought out by “cross-border marriage,” are overlapping in the field of sex trading and desire exhibition. Taiwan government negotiates the economic interests of wombs with objectified “marriage migration of Chinese females” and makes these females, who have later become mothers, become women in both cultural and body borders. Besides, the experiences of migration and pregnancy have given them a chance to redraw the scope of subject boundary and to reform the subject identity.