Becoming Taiwanese Good Women? Spatial Politics of Identity for Female Vietnamese Immigrants
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Fan, Kang-Hao
Abstract
As We know, more and more Vietnamese female immigrants flow across to Taiwan consistently. For the goal of integrity of Taiwanese nation-state’s territory, Taiwanese government proactively make these Vietnamese female immigrants into governing objectives and claim it for national security and national discourse entitlement. There are four governmentalities: (1) our government make orders to these immigrants, and make those immigrants bodies in the state of exception; (2) citizenship is made (and self-making); (3) national governance regime is multi-scales. (4) the boundary of nation-state controlling coincide with the boundary of mainstream sex/gender mindset. This thesis is trying to focus on the four governmentalities above and discuss them with spatial perspectives on territory, place, scale, networks/interconnectivity and mobility.
I wondered about the intersection of the nation and gender factors. I propose that the nation-state sets restrictions on sex/gender practices and judge these immigrants morally. Furthermore, in this case, what will the “space” plays a role in this kind of discussion? And after the moral distinctions, how does the nation-state adjust to make national boundaries through spatial strategies?
Data from fields, situational interviews, in-depth interviews and with official documents, the study is trying to explore the complexities between nationalism and sex/gender and how these they intersect. I generate four categories which are Taiwanese and Vietnamese good women; Taiwanese and Vietnamese bad women, and do analysis respectively. The study will show that how nation-state govern immigrant female and at the meanwhile, these immigrants as well, practice plenty of spatial strategies at the ethnic places to make the negotiation, resistance and some partial (dis)obedience. They still will seek for networking supports and other special daily practices.
I find out that these immigrant women surely negotiate and adjust their identities while encountering the top-down power of Taiwanese nation-state. And, according to their sex/gender practices, they can become a Taiwanese good women when they obey to the mainstream sex and gender norms. However, if they “do badness”, they will be excluded out of the nation. Enduring these repression, they will trans-act, create ethnic places, involve in ethnic networks, territorialize ethnic identity, and cross through differential spatial strategies for their alternative practices, so as to be capable of deconstructing the sexually differentiation judgments.
Morally should we forbid our desire for combining nations and nationalities so as to multiply our visions for embracing lifestyles of minorities, also should we acknowledge the construction, hybridity, functionality, and danger of the concept of nation. This study for immigrant female explicitly show the flourish development on identity with spatially migrations dialectics. Therefore I propose that the female immigrants should be “non-national egoism” and democratize their pathways to battle with the continually local state apparatus.
Subjects
新移民女性
性工作者
族裔化地方
國族主義
空間
Type
thesis
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