Cultural diversity and data in East Asia: ‘foreign brides’ surveys in Taiwan and Southern Korea
Eastern Asian countries are becoming increasingly diverse inside their cultural composition considering that the 1990s. a proportion that is large of immigrants comprises of ladies from Asia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand as well as the Philippines, whom migrated after their wedding to male residents from Southern Korea and Taiwan. The governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000 to study this new group of foreign residents. This paper conducts an analysis that is content of concerns of the studies to elaborate a critique regarding the cultural statistics made out of them. These studies offer appropriate all about this set of brand brand new residents, nonetheless they also provide the possibility to bolster current negative stereotypes due to previous presumptions that shaped the information of questionnaires. The analysis reveals that the creation of data on migrants is impacted by three ideologies: assimilation, nationalism and patriarchy.
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A version that is previous of paper ended up being presented during the Overseas Conference on Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity held in Montreal, December 5–8, 2007, arranged because of the Quebec Inter-University Center for Social Statistics. We thank Victor Piche, Alan Simmons as well as 2 anonymous reviewers with regards to their comments that are constructive. We also thank Belinda Hammoud for research support and Gale Cassidy for modifying. The Social Science and Humanities analysis Council, the Global developing analysis Center of Canada, additionally the nationwide Policy analysis Centre at nationwide Sun Yat-sen University of Taiwan offered funding for research associated with this paper.
1. In this respect, Taiwan varies from South Korea, as it posseses an aboriginal population which makes a country’s populace more diverse. Leer más
