About one out of every 33 people in Taiwan is a Southeast Asian migrant worker. They have become indispensable to life in Taiwan.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/08/29
By: One-Forty
Taiwan’s migrant worker population is nearly 680,000 strong, meaning that nowadays, just about one out of every 33 people in Taiwan is a Southeast Asian migrant worker.
This might come as a surprise. Interactions between migrant workers and Taiwanese can be limited; they seem to many to be invisible, an unknown group of strangers. However, they also call this country home, spending years, if not decades, here. Many migrant workers learn at least basic Mandarin or Taiwanese. They have weathered just as many typhoons and earthquakes as you have.
Searching for information on migrant workers in Taiwan can quickly lead you into a maze of confusing laws, stories of mistreatment, and sensationalized headlines, so here is a concise and reliable guide to what you really need to know. [FULL STORY]