| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞研究所 === 97 === With the newly formed international marriage fever, new female migrants increase numerically and become the fifth major “ethnic group” in Taiwan. However, certain racial discrimination on Southeast Asian female migrants becomes strengthen through the propagation of mass media in Taiwan has affected some local people to hold a dominating and distrust attitude towards their foreign spouses at the beginning of their marriage. In addition to this, a traditionally dominance of Taiwanese mother-in-laws on the foreign daughter-in-laws is obviously associated with racial as well as economic background of the latter, especially when there is no blood and affection existed between Southeast Asian female migrants and theirs mother-in-laws. What kind of issues and conflicts will rise between Southeast Asian female migrants and Taiwanese mother-in-laws in this unbalance dominate-subordinate familial hierarchy? Moreover, under the strong dominance of conjugal family economically, how will Taiwanese mother-in-laws treat their foreign daughter-in-laws and how the latter react is an interesting issue to investigate.
In this thesis, 12 Southeast Asian female spouses of Kuan-Yin, Taoyuan County were selected as research objects. By using qualitative research which focuses on the life experiences of the female migrants there, the thesis explores the dynamic relationship between Taiwanese mother-in-laws and foreign daughter-in-laws, and discusses the latter’s reaction to the intended domination of the former. The thesis also investigates the vertical and horizontal relations within the cross-border marriages’ family structure; including sharing of household chores, pressure of having a son to carry on the family name, responsibility of parents caring, behavior model of new female migrants while facing a conflict so as to deal with the relationship between Southeast Asian female migrants and their mother-in-laws. In In conclusion, this thesis discovers that most of the new female migrants did not get along well with their Taiwanese mother-in-laws, owing to the economic advantage of conjugal family, Taiwanese mother-in-laws play an important role of reproducing patriarchal family, where they strongly dominate the decision of household chores and birth right, also, being responsible for taking care of their father-in-laws and daughter-in-laws, will lead to a conflict between daughter-in-laws and mother-in-laws. However, the female migrants response with long-term pressure mentally due to cultural differences and even come up with resistance and escaping strategies.
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