Social Conditions of Foreign Laborers in a Meatpacking Factory in Rural Southern Taiwan

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Research in Economic Anthropology

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Title:	Social Conditions of Foreign Laborers in a Meatpacking Factory in Rural Southern Taiwan
Author(s):	Winston Tseng
Volume:	25 Editor(s): Donald C. Wood ISBN: 978-0-76231-375-4 eISBN: 978-1-84950-463-8
Citation:	Winston Tseng (2006), Social Conditions of Foreign Laborers in a Meatpacking Factory in Rural Southern Taiwan, in Donald C. Wood (ed.) Choice in Economic Contexts (Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.51-73
DOI:	10.1016/S0190-1281(06)25003-0 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	The growing foreign labor population has become a major political issue in Taiwan. However, there has been a lack of understanding about foreign laborers in Taiwan from foreign laborer perspectives. This ethnographic case study focuses on foreign laborer perspectives and examines social contexts, conditions, and support for Filipino and Thai laborers at a meatpacking factory in rural southern Taiwan. The findings suggest that foreign laborers are pushed by family financial needs and pulled by higher wages and labor shortages in Taiwan meatpacking factories. Also, these laborers work and live under difficult conditions and lack social welfare and support.