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Public Statement on the You-Fu Fishing Human Trafficking Criminal Case Dukungan atas Pernyataan Publik terkait Kasus Perdagangan Manusia di Kapal You-Fu
Waiting for Justice: Taiwan’s Failure to Prosecute the You-Fu Human Trafficking Case Does Not Meet International Legal Standards Taipei, 11 August 2025 About the You-Fu Criminal Case In August 2024, the prolonged […]
Academic Symposium: Anniversary of the Human Trafficking Prevention Act Amendment & the Prohibition of Forced Labor
學術研討會：人口販運防制法修法週年與強迫勞動禁止學術研討會 **本次活動亦將在線上進行** 📆日期： 2025年4月30日，星期三 ⏰時間： 13:00~17:40（台北時間） Webex 存取連結： Webex 會議鏈接 地點：光複校區NYCU R104 HC Building3；英語線上同聲傳譯 主辦單位：國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心、國立陽明交通大學科技法律學院（ICCS） 協辦單位：台灣人權促進會、台灣勞工陣線、Work Better Innovations 側記：網站
Academic Symposium: Anniversary of the Human Trafficking Prevention Act Amendment & the Prohibition of Forced Labor
Academic Symposium: Anniversary of the Human Trafficking Prevention Act Amendment & the Prohibition of Forced Labor **This event will be also conducted online** 📆 Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 ⏰ […]
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Bonny Ling & Mariko Hayashi | Refugee Protection in Japan and Taiwan: Common Challenges and Ways Forward for Human Security
This chapter explores the current situation of refugee protection in both Japan and Taiwan. For both, refugee assistance serves a diplomatic purpose by promoting the country’s contribution to external refugee issues, rather than implementing the norms and spirit of the Refugee Convention domestically. This chapter examines the gaps between international standards in the protection of asylum seekers and refugees, and Japan’s implementation of those standards. It also looks at how these challenges are manifested for Taiwan, which lacks an asylum law.
Understanding the International Labour Organization Indicators of Forced Labour: Practical Guide for Taiwan’s SMEs
This is an SME-friendly policy guide in Chinese (traditional) on the International Labour Organization Indicators of Forced Labour. It covers all the indicators and aims to improve SME awareness on international standards concerning these indicators in Taiwan. The guide is a source of authoritative reference materials of continuous learning on forced labour risks in the Taiwanese supply chain. While the guidebook specifically addresses the SMEs, the materials on international standards and Taiwan-specific analyses are relevant for all stakeholders.
Joyce C.H. Liu | Cyber Slavery, Port Cities and Systemic Cruelty
This article presents a theoretical analysis of the logistics of neoliberal slavery in the 21st century, focusing on the role of the port cities as the hinge in the supply chain through the case of the cyber scam industry of the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. The hinge, in a metonymic and metaphorical way, connects a complex mobile networking system with a multi-dimensional and topological dynamism. The overlaid networks consist of a tripartite operation—the production, the market, and the law—and explains the persistence of human interest in profiting from surplus values through human labor extraction, and the violence and cruelty inherent in this. The logic of circulation no longer follows Marx’s analysis of M-C-M or M-M+, but the formula of V-M+. Through void with no cost, and violence with no law, there is no limit to the multiplication of capital.
Jonathan S. Parhusip | The Making of Freedom and Common Forms of Struggle of Runaways in Taiwan
Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures that support their daily survival. To open space for maneuver within nation-state borders, runaway migrant workers utilize their agency and negotiate state and nonstate structures such as recruitment companies, NGOs and civil society organizations, migrant communities, illegal agency services, and taxi drivers.
Joyce C. H. Liu & Brett Neilson | Introduction: Migration Struggles, Colonial Legacies, and Pandemic Shifts
We title this Against the Day section “Migrant Struggles in East and Southeast Asia” with appreciation of this predicament. Our intention is not to enclose experiences of migrant life and struggle within a strict regional frame. Rather, in bringing together contributions that engage with migrant struggles across locations in contemporary Asia, we seek to mark a dissonance and resonance with migrant projects in other parts of the world.
Mei-Lin Pan | Neither compatriots nor refugees: Status discrimination of exiled Tibetans and the contradictory faces of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Taiwan’s ambiguity of identity pushes the government neither to treat Tibetan refugees in Taiwan as compatriots nor accept their status as refugees. Placed under double liminal status, exiled Tibetan refugees in Taiwan have been discriminated against and denied their entitled human rights. This paper provides two cases to reveal the very real difficulty of their situation in Taiwan. Both stories present the kind of dilemma the exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan due to this double liminality.
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