移工、跨國仲介與制度設計：誰從台越國際勞動力流動獲利？

Transnational Labor Migration System between Vietnam and Taiwan: In Whose Interests?

王宏仁(Hong-Zen Wang) ； 白朗潔(Baniele Belanger)

《台灣社會研究季刊》 Issue 65 (2007/03) Pp. 35-66

https://doi.org/10.29816/TARQSS.200703.0002

Abstracts

本研究以越南－臺灣之間的跨國勞工移動過程為例，來探討制度設計如何影響國際的勞工移動過程、移動的費用，以及那些人從此中獲利。我們認為，兩國的仲介利益團體試圖去影響各自政府的政策與制度設計，加上臺灣與外國政府之間外交關係，形成了臺灣的客工計畫與禁止雇主轉換的規定，這些因素綜合起來，形成目前移工的兩個困境：高額仲介費用以及惡劣的勞動條件。移工在臺灣的工作所得都因為此制度的設計，而被臺灣、越南雙方的其他人士拿走。

Keywords

制度論 ； 移工 ； 仲介 ； 臺灣 ； 越南

Parallel abstracts

In this paper we argue that the common discourse on labor export as a kind of economic development policy to raise poor people's social welfare is doubtful. The question we raise is ”who benefits from this labor export”. Through the analysis of Taiwan-Vietnam labor migration, we document how most surpluses produced by these migrant workers are appropriated by elites in the two countries. All activities involved in the migratory process are profit-oriented. This highly commercialized international labor market, constructed by numerous intermediary agents scattered in both countries, set in the institutional context of Taiwan government's guestworker scheme and employer-bonded regulation, creates the bonded migrant workers in the bottom of a transnational social hierarchy. Based on extensive fieldwork in Vietnam and Taiwan, this paper offers a detailed example of the context and problems with the international market of migrant workers within Asia.

Parallel keywords

Institution ； migrant worker ； placement agency ； Taiwan ； Viet Nam

References

劉梅君(2000)。廉價外勞論述的政治經濟批判。台灣社會研究季刊。38，59-90。

Abella,Manolo I.,Douglas S.,Massey,J. Edward Taylor(2004).The role of recruiters in labor mingration.(International Migration: Prospects and policies in a global market).

Beresford,Melanie,Garry Rodan,Kevin Hewison,Richard Robison(1997).Vietnam: the Transition from Central Planning.(The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction).

Gainsborough,Martin(2002).Political Chagne in Vietnam: In serach of the middle-class challenge to the state.Asian Survey.42,694-707.

Hardy,Andrew(2002).From a floating World: emigration to Europe from Post-war Vietnam.Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.11,463-484.