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Global Production Networks, the State, and Migrant Workers: Governing Labour in the Semiconductor Industry
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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.








