STATS

In Taiwan, almost 40% of the population is migrant workers. In other words, one in every forty Taiwanese will be migrant workers. In 2017. the migrant workers who live in Taiwan achieve 676142 population.

95% industry migrant workers are working in manufacturing. Their works are major for 3K manufacturing requirements. Although many Taiwanese manufacturing companies employ migrant workers, the manufacturing vacancy is still in the top three of Taiwan labor vacancies.

The government released a policy called “Long-Term Care” , planning to reduce the reliance on migrant workers and increase the number of domestic caregivers through the policy.

But the nursing assistant is still in a scarcity, and we can see that Taiwanese elder-caring is actually sustained by those migrant workers through the number of foreign caregivers’ customers is much more than domestics’.

1989 is first year Taiwan started bringing in migrant workers, the purpose is to have more manpower for large-scale construction project.

1992, the government pass the bill that private industry can hire migrant workers legal. It cause these migrant workers number growth.

Some university established The Southeast Asia Institute in 1990s, such as Tamkang University. Southeast Asia Department was established by numerous university since 2010s. Included Jinan International University, Kaohsiung Normal University and more. Also elementary students can learn Southeast Asian languages in school now.