[ 英文摘要 ]

This study investigates the relationship between the attitudes of Taiwanese toward foreign spouse immigration policies and social values. We conducted the study using data from Taiwan Social Change Survey Project conducted by Academia Sinica and referred to other relative studies. First of all, we followed predecessors’ steps and analyzed samples’ individual social positions. Secondly, we discussed how political ethnic group and economy threat affected the attitudes of Taiwanese toward foreign spouse getting rights. Finally, we considered social values an important factor and investigated how it influenced Taiwanese’s attitudes toward immigration policies. In social values study, we used citizen tolerance and altruism as indices to express people’s social values and discussed Taiwanese’s attitudes toward foreign spouse getting Medicare right, right-to-work and citizenship. This study explains how social values affect the changes of attitudes toward foreign spouse getting rights and how important the effect is.

In this study we find that economy threat, political ethnic group, citizen tolerance and altruism have different impacts on different foreign spouses who come from different areas. Economy threat affects Taiwanese’s attitudes toward Southeast Asian, European, American and Japanese spouses getting Medicare right, right-to-work and citizenship, while political ethnic group impacts the attitudes toward spouses from mainland China getting rights. Citizen tolerance influences the attitudes toward foreign spouses from Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Japan and mainland China getting Medicare right, right-to-work and citizenship. Altruism has significant impacts on foreign spouses getting Medicare right, right-to-work and citizenship. The study demonstrates that not only economy threat and political ethnic group have influence on Taiwanese’ attitudes toward immigration policies, but social values have more significant impacts on this issue.