英文摘要 |
During the past two decades, the children of marriages between Han Chinese and indigenous residents of Taiwan have become increasingly flexible in terms of determining their ethnic status. Before the 'Status Act for Indigenous Peoples' was passed by the Taiwan Legislative Yuan in 2001, the administrative regulations on the status identification for indigenous peoples had been revised several times, but few efforts have been made to address the impacts of the revisions before 2000 on interethnic marriages and children. Here we use paired parent-child data from the 2000 Republic of China Census to examine the effects of complex family and social contexts on these children's ethnic status choices. Our main findings are (a) the probability of bi-ethnic children inheriting indigenous status from their mothers decreased after the implementation of more flexible administrative regulation on ethnic identification for indigenous peoples in 1991. The impacts of institutional changes are not reflected in the ethnic inheritances of children because of their parents' reluctance and negative social atmosphere; (b) in accordance with the patriarchal custom of determining descent through the father's family line, children born in bi-ethnic marriages are more likely to inherit indigenous status via their indigenous fathers rather than their indigenous mothers. Nevertheless, some exception can be observed if the indigenous mother are more resourceful than the Han father in a family; (c) in contrast to families living in non-aboriginal townships, inter-ethnic families residing in aboriginal townships are more likely to allow their children to inherit indigenous status due to social support and peer pressure; (d) the likelihood of inheriting indigenous status is higher in socially and economically disadvantage families. However, the effect of instrumental purpose on inheriting indigenous status is not as strong as people expected since the disadvantageous families identifies in this study are small in number; and (e) the impacts of ethnic intermarriage on ethnic cohesion and identity in elite families is deserving of further study. |