A Study of Self-identity and Sense of Place: The Case of Lifestyle Migration in Sanyi
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chang, Tsz-Yung
Abstract
The city hall of Miaoli County has been renovating the pavement in township, hosting art exhibitions and campaigns in order to attract tourists and opportunities for the local development of industry and business, and devoting actively to build the image of “Mountain City of LOHAS”. All these efforts, indirectly, bringing up local farmland trades and construction projects, and also drawing urban citizens to buy town houses as primary homes or second homes. “Sanyi Art Village” in Miaoli is located near the national expressway No.1 and the Sanyi wood sculpture museum; therefore, to take advantage of this location, contractors cultivate an intense nostalgic atmosphere of Hakka for the community, and successfully attracting urban citizens to settle down in the village. At the same time, the voluntary counter-urbanization phenomenon was formed up. This phenomenon is also related to the anxiety and the alienation of human beings due to the influence of globalization, and “Escapism” has become a practical plan for demolishing the unbalance of physical and mental condition.
The study of the counter-urbanization has been a popular issue overseas. Due to the compression of time and space, the uneven area development and the arising of the country side tourism etc., part of the urban citizens are motivated to pursuit the ideal life, hence in-migrate to country side where less jobs are available. As a result, it forms so-called “lifestyle migration”. This very migration is under the theme of “diasporas” and has drawn lots of attentions from population research teams in foreign countries; however, it is not yet emphasized domestically in the field of human geography.
For the need of filling this research gap, this dissertation aims at picturing the status quo of in-migration by providing the analysis of lifestyle in-migration on the perspectives of space and living experience and, with qualitative method approach, discussing the in-migrating experience and self-identity concept of the in-migrant in Sanyi Art Village; meanwhile bridging the theories of lifestyle in-migration and the sense of place in the field of geography. The result indicates pursuing “better life” is the major reason for in-migrating, while the concept of “better life” is heterogeneous according to the different point of view and the practice of each subject. These practices embed within the private interpretation of the relationship between the land and the villagers, thus conflict may arise among the in-migrants, and the conflict may influence on the future development of Sanyi Art Village, which also can be a potential topic.
Subjects
生活風格遷移
島內移民
自我認同
逃避主義
地方感
Type
thesis
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