Why Are They Running Away? A Critique on the Foreign Care Workers Policy in Taiwan.
| Autor: | Jin-Wei Wu, 吳晉瑋 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Our government has approved foreign workers to work in Taiwan since 1992 and the number of them has been increasing. So far, the number of the foreign workers in Taiwan is up to about 440,000. Over the past 10 years, the number of the foreign care workers has been growing fastest, which help our government address the problem of the care manpower shortage when our society is faced with the trend of aging population. With the growth of the foreign workers in Taiwan and the lack of well-found policy, the number of foreign workers running away is also increasing. Among them, the number of foreign care workers running away is 22,000 which accounts for about 60％ of all foreign workers running away. This study is to explore the reasons and the structural problems of their running away from the dimesions of individual, management and institution. In terms of the individual dimension, this study reveals that the main reasons are that they feel tired and pressured physically and mentally under the burdens of taking care of patients through the means of in-depth interview. The second reason is their lack of social support. The foreign care workers are lack of the protection of basic work rights, and most of them have to work 24 hours a day under the closed and lonely working fields, which make them suffer plenty of care burdens and pressures. Once they have few social support, it is easier for them to feel isolated and reinforce their motives to run away to regain the freedom. Besides exploring the running away factors of foreign workers from the individual dimension, this study also analyzes those factors from the management and institution dimension. The factors include the big demand of illegal foreign care workers resulting from the aging society, the domestic care manpower shortage as well as the strict crieteria, transnational broker exploitation system, and the lack of protection of domestic workers’s basic work rights. With a view to improving their disadvantaged situations in Taiwan to weaken their motives of running away, this study thereby suggests that our government enact the related laws and regulations to protect the basic working rights of the foreign care workers, better the foreign care workers’ care skill and language capability, offer sufficient and immediate social supports, corporate them into our long-term care human resources and permit them to be the alien permanent residents in Taiwan, and reinforce the mechanism of institution or community care and gradually reduce the number of foreign domestic care workers. |
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