英文摘要 |
Mainlander spouses as migrant groups challenge the core ethnic composition and the boundaries of national community in Taiwan. Past studies have observed that Taiwan nationalists were often associated with negative attitudes toward mainland migrants. This study, however, argues that even for the strongest Taiwan identifiers, attitudes toward mainland migrants are deeply affected by perceptions of who are qualified to be nation members and what constitute the substances of their national identities. Those with a strong ethnic, historical and cultural national identity are more likely to oppose mainland migrants compared to those with a civic, political, and institutional national identity. This study explores the relationship between Taiwan nationalism and opposition to mainland migrants using the「Taiwan Social Change Survey: National Identity Module 2013」dataset. We classified respondents into four types of nationalists. Our models showed that ethnic-Taiwanese nationalists were most likely to oppose mainland spouses and civic-Chinese nationalists were least likely to oppose them. More notably, ethnic-Chinese nationalists were more likely to exclude mainland spouses and question their national loyalty -than Taiwanese nationalists. In short, Taiwanese nationalists are not always hostile to mainland migrants, whereas Chinese nationalists are not always accommodating to mainland migrants. |