陌聲既出：婚姻移民、多音繞舌、異文「化」空間(I)

The “spoiled identity” of new female immigrant originates from the stigmatization of her ethnic group or country. Cross-border marriage is often judged by media as a “trade marriage”, a “instant marriage”, a marriage without “love” but only for “bread” and so on, which often accompanied by negative opinions like “fake marriage, real prostitution”, “scam for marriage”, “scam for money” or “it is all for money”. Nevertheless, once the marital channel becomes diversified with free love marriages included – such as new couples met at work, on the internet or during travels – shall these marriages also be judged in the same measure? With an assimilation policy of one single language, the literacy education of Taiwan is mainly based on mandarin, which can be considered as ignoring new immigrants’ cultural capital: How do we treasure and transform female immigrants and their children’s multilingual advantage? Whether community people contact with female immigrants, who runs stores in the communities, or with immigrant service groups; or when there are new gathering locations established for female immigrants in the community – once the community people have more contacts with female immigrants, can these females be wholeheartedly accepted? Above questions are what this paper attempts to discuss. This research is a sub-project of an integrated research project. Based on the three year research, this paper has collected multiple data to discuss female immigrants’ experience of stigmatization and their strategies to response it, including: using in-depth interviews to understand female immigrants’ experience of stigmatization and strategies to response it after entered the country of marriage immigration; holding on a few focus groups to discuss social cohesion of community-based organizations of immigrant services in the communities; gathering discourse analysis from the newspaper and TV news to understand how the media shape marriage immigration, multilingual and multiculture of female immigrants; through telephone survey to understand the public attitudes towards female immigrants, diversified accents and community stores opened by female immigrants; other methods like interviewing the policy makers or service providers are also proceeded in an anticipation of drawing up responding actions towards the stigmatization of female immigrants.