英文摘要 |
This study primarily aims to explore whether the attitudes of the public in Taiwan towards immigrants’eligibility for welfare are influenced by welfare chauvinism and protectionism. The research mainly utilizes the“Globalization and Culture”theme survey from the fourth survey of the seventh phase of the Taiwan Social Change Survey for analysis. The study finds that a significant 59.53% of the Taiwanese public believes there should be strict restrictions on providing welfare to immigrants, a percentage higher than in European Union countries. Moreover, from the regression analysis results, the attitudes of the Taiwanese public towards immigrants obtaining welfare are not determined by socio-economic status and the risk of unemployment in the labour market. Economic welfare chauvinism is also not a determining condition for whether the public supports immigrants’welfare. Conversely, economic and immigration protectionism, or xenophobia, explains why the Taiwanese public believes there should be strict restrictions on immigrants’eligibility for welfare. In other words, welfare chauvinism in Taiwan is political, rather than economic. This study proposes using deliberative democracy to facilitate public discussion on integrating immigrants into Taiwanese society and the welfare system. |