講者名稱: Danièle
Bélanger
講者簡歷:
Danièle Bélanger is the Canada
Research Chair in Population, Gender and Development, and Associate Professor
in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. She is a
social demographer working on the developing world. Her research focuses on
gender, reproductive health, family, marriage and abortion. She is currently
working on the data she collected during her fieldwork in Vietnam during the
year 2000 and 2002 on fertility behavior, social policy and gender preference
for children. This research is funded by the Social Science Research Council
(SSRC) and the Social Science Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
活動摘要:
We will discuss one aspect of the
social transformations brought about the presence of new immigrant groups in
Taiwan: the reconfiguration of the use and meaning of public space in the city
of Taipei. Because migrant workers from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia
and Vietnam gather and make use of different public places in Taipei City, the
meaning previously attached to these spaces is transformed. In addition to
providing an analysis of the changes in the social landscape of the city, we
discuss how political leaders attempt to re-inscribe public spaces with meaning
that they feel more suitable. The gap between the current use of some public
places and planners’ original intentions speaks to the profound change that
Taiwanese society is undergoing with the arrival of international migrants. To
study Filipino, Thai and Indonesian migrants’ relationships with public space,
we focus on how they use the Taipei Railway Station and surrounding areas. The
train station of Taiwan’s largest city is a meeting point for migrants who
converge in the city on Sundays. It is, therefore, a good case study to examine
how migration changes urban public space. We discuss why the use of public
places by Vietnamese diverges from other groups and explore why they do not use
the TRS and seem to prefer other gathering places. Overall, this study reveals
how different contradictory structural forces compete with one another. In
addition, we show how migrant workers carve a space of hidden resistance for
themselves by defying the hegemonic definition of public spaces in Taipei City.
活動時間: 星期二, 四月 26, 2011
- 10:00 to 12:00
活動地點: 國立中興大學綜合教學大樓2樓204室
主辦單位 ｜國立中興大學人文與社會科學研究中心
協辦單位 ｜國立中興大學景觀與遊憩學位學程
指導單位 ｜教育部、國科會
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