Yuan-Yu Chiang and Yu-Han Tseng and Chin-Chen Wen
The Relationship between Citizenship Acquisition and Ethnic Identity of Immigrant Women in Taiwan
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2015
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000402
https://publications.waset.org/vol/97
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
In the last few decades, many southeastAsia women
migrate to Taiwan by marriage, and it usually takes several years for
them to acquire Taiwanese citizenship. This study investigates the
relationship between their citizenship acquisition and whether they
develop Taiwanese identities, and how does it affect their ethnical
identity towards their original ethnics. Furthermore, the present study
also explores that whether citizenship acquisition help the immigrant
women to explore the host society further and make commitment to it,
or the identification towards mainstream Taiwanese society is only
symbolic and superficial One hundred and ninetytwo immigrant
women were measured using Multigroup Ethnic Identity
MeasureRevised and a global 10point ethnic identity question.
Correlation tests, ttest, and hierarchical regression were performed to
answer the above questions. The results revealed that citizenship
acquisition does help immigrant women to identify with Taiwanese
society, but it does not affect how they identify with their own ethnics.
Furthermore, the results also indicated that acquiring citizenship
would not help these immigrant women become involved in deeper
cultural exploration of Taiwan nor would it encourage them to make
commitments to the host society.
Open Science Index 97, 2015