Photo credit: Nga Shi Yeu
Migration in Taiwan, as an island nation, has long been a continuous network entwined with the circulation of techniques, labour, and intimacy within multilateral regimes of subject recognition, particularly dispossession and relocation. To move, the trajectories are also constituted by the exchange of objects—remittances, ritual icons, consumer goods, edible materials, and bodily substances—that shape how mobility is lived, remembered, and governed.
This special issue assembles the intersections of mobility, gender, and materiality, while foregrounding memories, strategies, and narratives as integral to migration across various boundaries.
Of Swallows and Nests: The Migration Trajectories of Kinmen’s Wartime Generation and Their Return Home Written by Junbin Tan.
Vietnam Kinmen Association (Fuji Temple): A Symbol of Taiwan’s Soft Diplomacy in Saigon before 1975 Written by Meiyuan Kou.
The Rise and Exclusion within Multicultural Discourses of Immigrant Integration in Taiwan Written by Chien-Ping Liu.
Taiwan Insight 