essay
Migration and family change in central Taiwan
Chinese city between two worlds • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 303-330, 432-434
By: Speare, Alden.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay explores changes in the extended family structure in relation to migration to Taichung city. Speare found that the extended family is still valued, that both rural and urban men had lived in extended families, that economic opportunity was the most compelling reason to move to the city, that the probability of moving to the city increased with the number of brothers a man had, and that although moving to the city tended to break up extended families, the ties were maintained in various ways. The sample included a small number of Hakka-speaking men.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Internal migration
- Urban and rural life
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Taichung hsien, west-central Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alden Speare Jr.
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese