埔里新住民的社會復原力：以921地震為例

Social Resilience of Female Migrant Spouses in Puli: Case Study of the 921 Earthquake

性別、族群與災難議題在國內與國際社群逐漸受到重視，但針對921地震的新住民研究仍極為有限。本文主要從社會復原力的觀點，探討921地震時，埔里新住民所面臨的問題和需求，及當時她們所處生活環境是否有因應的資源與支持，以協助她們從災難中復原，並降低結構不均對災難所帶來的加乘負面影響。社會復原力不似傳統復原力的論述著重人格特質的討論，而關注個人和環境的交互，但更重視社會如何支持個人。本文採用半結構訪談法，訪談11位曾經歷921地震之埔里新住民，從個人的能動性、正式非正式支持體系、生態環境和文化及信仰等面向探討不同的系統當如何相互支援補足，成為新住民個人和家庭受到衝擊時的備援並增進面對災難的復原力。

Gender, ethnicity, and disaster have become high-profile issues in Taiwan and international academic communities; however, research on the experiences of female migrant spouses during the 921 earthquake has been scant. This paper uses the perspectives of social resilience to explore the problems and needs of female migrant spouses in Puli during and after the 921 earthquake. The paper examines whether the community in which female migrant spouses lived provided the resources and support to help them recover from the disaster when the earthquake stroke and reduced the negative impact of structural inequality. Traditionally, the concept of resilience focuses on personality traits, whereas social resilience emphasizes the interaction of individuals with the environment and the support individuals receive from their society. In this study, a semi-structured interview was used to gather information from 11 female migrant spouses who had experienced the 921 earthquake. The aimis to explore how an individual's strength, formal and informal support systems, ecological environment, and cultural factors and beliefs supplement each other to form redundancy and reinforced resilience during the disaster.