Consumer Space and Cultural Landscape of Indonesian Migrant Workers around Taipei Railway Station

Autor: Yang Li-Fang, 楊麗芳
Rok vydání: 2008
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 96
These years, there have been a lot of migrant worker consumer space and cultural landscapes occurring in Taiwan. Consumer behavior reflects cultural meanings. Viewed through the view of consumer culture, space is actually part of the product. In addition, the forming and transition of cultural landscapes signifies the conversion and consequence of interaction between human beings and the environment as well as including some abstract terms such as social structure, power relationship and ideology. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the consequences and meanings of Indonesian workers consumer space and the forming of cultural landscapes by sampling the Indonesian street of Beiping W. Rd via field observation and in-depth interview. Besides, in the process of globalization, it is common to find out phenomenons such as crossover, floating, and networking. It has been seeing that city population structure, life style and cultural landscape changed. The society is getting diverse as well as ethnicity. Hence, this study was to examine the crossover of Indonesian workers by the view of transnationalism、multiculturalism and to discuss that how Taiwanese and our government face the issue of diversification.
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