兩岸與國際事務季刊


家庭、社群、與勞動:

十三位大陸新娘在台社會適應的行動策略探索

朱柔若、劉千嘉

           

   本研究針對來台後的生活經驗,以深度訪談的方式,訪問十三位高雄地區之大陸新娘,結果發現,大陸新娘在不同的議題上會採用不同的適應策略。目的都是在爭取較好的「秀異」(distinction)表現,以取得被台灣社會認可的社會位置。基本上,大陸新娘本身所掌握的資本與行動能力對其社會適應的經驗與行動策略,會產生關鍵性的影響力。在訪談的過程中,本研究也發現大陸新娘會以各種不同的論述策略來修飭自我的形象。由於大陸新娘尚未發展成一個有組織的團體,所以她們的行動目標與策略仍停留在個人的層面。雖然大陸新娘在不同的場域中有著不同的身分,扮演著不同的角色,仍展現出運用不同的策略去建構自己形象的動力。

 關鍵字 大陸新娘  行動策略  質性研究

Abstract

This study interviewed 13 Chinese brides in the Great Kaohsiung area. Its main purpose is to explore how the Chinese brides interpreted their various experiences of social adaptation. It discovers that the interviewed Chinese brides have adopted different strategies to cope with different situations such as family life, community participation and job seeking. As the Chinese brides strove for “distinction” and neighborhood recognition, they pooled all kinds of material and social capital and formed various action strategies for self-impression management. Since the Chinese brides have not gathered together as a group, their tactics for action still remain at the individual level. Even so, the action strategies taken by the 13 Chinese brides have given plentiful cues for detecting the dynamics of image-restructuring in the process of social adaptation.

Keywords: Chinese bride, action strategy, qualitative research