A Feasibility Assessment to Establish New Immigrants Museum：A Case Study in Taiwan

• Main Authors: CHEN LILI, 陳莉莉
• Other Authors: CHIOU,CHANG-TAY
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rn7rp3

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 公共行政暨政策學系碩士在職專班 === 105 === This study is based on the background of the new immigrants and their children in Taiwan. Except the spouses from Mainland China, most of these new immigrants come from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines and other Southeast Asian. Therefore, they brought the society of Taiwan a new vision of the diversity of culture. So far, there are very few discussions and analyses about the policy which deal with the establishment of the museum for these immigrants, who work hard for Taiwan and live here. However, the museums, which play the role as a public forum and a platform, are very significant to be concerned and supported. This paper intends to combine cultural citizenship and multiculturalism with the affect and change of the new immigrants from Southeast Asian, who live in Taiwan, to see if it's urgent and imperative to set up a Southeast Asian Museum of New Immigrants. Thus, it must be considered that there are cultural positioning, location, scale of construction, features, and types during the discussion through the perspective of policy feasibility study. This is the main motive and purpose of this essay to do the research. According to the above mentioned background, this essay is analyzed with the relevant perspectives, like historical origin and current condition of the immigrants from Southeast Asian, the multiculturalism, new immigrants and their citizenship, as well as the theories of cultural citizenship and ethnic museum. As the basis for analysis, here in essay will take groups of museums for examples to compare. The Asian Civilization Museum in Singapore is the one abroad, and the others are indigenous museums and Hakka Cultural Museums in Taiwan. Then this research is done with the interviews with officials, experts and new immigrants and the analysis of literature, in order to find its predicament and its opportunity to provide policy recommendations. The study found several arguments below. To establish a New Immigration Museum, its thinking and policy making are different from other public constructions. And there are hardships that have to be overcome, such as ethnic label, ethnic Discrimination and ethnic stereotype , and crowding-out effect of ethnic resources and affairs. And due to the unclear laws and legal norms, the authority and responsibility of the government departments are so ambiguous that none of them can take the duty to discuss the possibility of setting up a New Immigrant Museum and the solution to the related problems. Then, the equity between the means of policy and the operative goal, which establish the New Immigrant Museum must be compared and clarified with qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness, in order to practice the cultural citizenship. At last, there has long been the lack of the human resource management of museum as well as the shortage of the studies of ethnic groups of Southeast Asian in Taiwan. Consequently, there is a recommendation after policy analysis that the government should and could establish a New Immigrants from Southeast Asian Mutilcultural Hall which could be adopted in such a way as a culture museum, in which the history of the immigration, their contribution for Taiwan and their culture could be exhibited authentically.