台媽在新加坡：「台─新」跨國家庭的移民經驗

在新加坡，有些台灣人是以申請永久居民身分，母親隻身帶著孩子赴新加坡求學，但父親在台灣或其他國家工作的方式，展開了跨國家庭的生活模式。本研究以質性訪談的方式訪問18位台灣─新加坡跨國家庭當中的台灣媽媽（台媽），探討他們移民新加坡的動機、想像與落差以及跨國家庭的重組與運作。研究發現，由於不滿於台灣紛亂的社會環境與治安狀況，且對近年來朝令夕改的教育改革措施失去信心，這些具有中產階級背景的台灣移民策略性的運用彈性公民身分，來往於多個國家之間，以期培養出具國際觀與競爭力的下一代。不僅台新之間的短時程讓跨國家庭成員能迅速往返，科技日益發達下所造就的時空收斂效果，亦使得跨國家庭在實質與通訊上的接觸皆更為頻繁。

關鍵字

台灣移民；新加坡；跨國家庭；單棲媽媽

並列摘要

In Singapore, there is a great deal of Taiwanese mothers, who have husbands work in Taiwan or other countries, migrated alone with their children to live in Singapore as applying Permanent Resident status for children's better education. Therefore, this obviously has formed a life style of transnational families. This research has been interviewed by eighteen mothers of Taiwan-Singapore transnational family by using qualitative interview method in order to explore their motive of migration, the imagination with Singapore, the experience of Singapore life; how the real life differ to their expectation, and the recombination and operation of the transnational family. I discovered that they immigrated because they were not satisfied with Taiwan's society which significantly is not safe and public security which is weak. And they were disappointed to the educational reformation of Taiwan which changed so frequently in recent years. So these middle class Taiwanese migrants strategically used the flexible citizenship to stay in foreign countries, consequently, living in Singapore is the way to fulfill their hope of raising their children with international vision and with enhancing a high competitive capacity. Not only the short distance between Taiwan and Singapore provides a fast travel for the transnational family members, the time space convergence under the development of high technology in nowadays is also beneficial to the transnational family, which they can have a more frequently contact and have a authentic face to face communication to their family members through the internet.