新移民之子與臺灣東協經貿關係的未來

New Immigrant Children and the Future of Taiwan's Economic and Trade Relations with ASEAN

秦宗春(Chin, Chun-Tsung)

《發展與前瞻學報》 5期 (2014/09) Pp. 59-73

https://doi.org/10.6737/JDP.201409_(5).03

摘要

移民提供了國家經濟發展的勞動力，帶來創新能力，對於國家經濟成長與技術進步有正面助益。我國近年來，新移民人數持續攀升，截至2014年底，已近50萬人，大陸配偶最多，其次就是來自東南亞的新移民，他們除了在經濟上做出貢獻外，也為我國生下許多新移民之子。在此同時，我國經貿環境也面臨巨大變化，東協成為我國第二大出口市場，隨著東協區域自由貿易區的開展，大陸營運成本的增加，我國企業也轉向東協國家投資。不同於從前以製造業為主的投資，服務業投資在此波投資中成長迅速，尤其是金融服務業。東協擁有6億人口，在快速經濟成長之下，也帶動了區域的消費需求，以及服務業的成長。服務業透過人與人的互動，需要良好的語言溝通能力。我國企業缺乏熟稔東南亞語文人才，而東南亞語言一直屬於小眾語言，學習者少，師資也缺乏。來自東南亞父(母)的新移民之子具備先天上的跨文化與語言學習上的優勢，如能習得母語對於他們的競爭力與我國經貿的未來有相當助益。然而，許多東南亞新移民忙於工作，並且缺乏專業訓練與本身所受教育有限，在母語教育上師資也面臨不足。本文建議可以引進在我國求學的東南亞外籍生與僑生，讓他們在課餘擔任母與師資。

關鍵字

新移民 ； 臺灣 ； 東協 ； 經貿關係

並列摘要

Immigrant offers labor force and innovative capability which are beneficial to country’s economic development and technological progress. In recent years, Taiwan’s new immigrants grow very fast. Until the end of 2014, there are almost half a million new immigrants, among whom Mainland Chinese are the highest and new immigrants from Southeast Asia are the second. They greatly contribute to Taiwan’s economy as well as give birth to children of new immigrants. Meanwhile, Taiwan’s economy is facing big changes with ASEAN becoming the second largest export market. Accompanying the ASEAN regional integration and the increase of operation cost in Mainland China, Taiwanese business invests more to ASEAN. Unlike previous investments which concentrated on manufacturing industry, this time more investments is on service industry especially the financial industry. The rapid economic development in ASEAN along with increasing consumption power of 6 billion population, the service sector grows very fast. Services face people to people interactions which require oral communication skills. Most Taiwanese businesses lack of people who can speak Southeast Asian languages and the languages had little demand and there were shortage of Southeast Asian language teacher in Taiwan. The new immigrant children with parents from Southeast Asia have born advantage of cultural understanding and language learning, with proper language training, that could become their competitive advantage and could benefit Taiwan’s future economy. However, many new immigrants are busy in working, lack of language teaching training and some even have limited education so there is a shortage of language teachers. This paper suggests that we might consider to incorporate those foreign or overseas Chinese students from Southeast Asia who study in Taiwan universities to be language teachers after class.

並列關鍵字

New Immigrant ； Taiwan ； ASEAN ； Economic and Trade Relations

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