TAIWANESE IMMIGRATION TO THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND ITS BACKGROUND

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Taiwanese immigrants in the South Africa

South Africa is a lower acculturation-stress society which Taiwanese immigrants live in, and have increasingly granted the permits of permanent residence which changed from tourist or business visa for them.
According to a Central Statistical Service report in 1990, 32499 tourists (23556 in 1988; 20028 in 1987; 16741 in 1986) from Asian countries with the exception of Israel, arrived in South Africa in 1989; around 70 percent of them are from Taiwan (comparatively not more than 10 percent were Taiwanese in 1986).
Therefore, there are approximately 62,000 Taiwanese tourists who arrived in this country from 1986 to 1989.Taiwanese tourists are the fourth largest tourist group in South Africa, just behind the united kingdom, West Germany and the united States.
The businesses owned by the Taiwanese and local born Chinese, which vary in si~e from a small cafe to a mediumsized factory, partly reflect the magnitude of the gradually growing ethnic group; there are some 600 Taiwanese-owned businesses in this country.
Immigration by the Taiwanese seems to be characterized by several unique features. First of all, the growing scale settlement by the Taiwanese immigrants in South Africa coincides with their home country’s booming economy and rapidly expanding foreign trade, to ,which South Africa is increasingly tied since sanctions were imposed. In the case of the Taiwanese, there is no visible factor, such as famine, war, revolution, or religious persecution, driving them out of the country; on the contrary, many of them are taking maximum advantage of their horne country’s booming economy by seeking opportunities for international trade with their « connections » at horne or investing factories in homeland industrial areas by the incentives of industrial decentralization.

CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION
1.1 The problems of this study
1.2 The main objectives this study
CHAPTER TWO – TAIWANESE IMMIGRATION TO THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND ITS BACKGROUND
2.1 Taiwanese immigrants in the Republic of South Africa
2.1.1 The period before 1986
2.1.2 The period from 1986 to 1991
2.2 Development in Taiwan
2.2.1 Current international migration policies in Taiwan
2.2.2 The overseas Chinese and international migration in Taiwan
2.2.3 The impact of Taiwanese emigrants on the socio-ecomonic sectors in Taiwan
3.1 The concept of acculturation
3.2 Acculturation situations
3.3 Acculturation contexts
3.4 Acculturation in Sociology
3.5 Psychological paradigm of acculturation
3.6 Communication as a medium of acculturation
3.7 Adaptation
3.8 The factors related with adaptation and acculturation
3.9 Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR – RESEARCH METHOD
4.1 An exploratory study to explain acculturation
4.2 A path model to explain the desire to re-emigrate
4.3 Specific research questions
4.4 The research instrument
4.5 Operationalization of major variables
4.6 Sample universe and sampling procedure
4 . 7 Demographic characteristics of the sample
CHAPTER FIVE – RESULTS OF ACCULTURATION LEVEL
5.1 Discriminant analyses of acculturation level
5.2 Adaptation strategy, intercultural and ethnic communication
5.3 The contributions of communication to acculturation level
5.4 Other demographic variables: contributions to communication activities and acculturation level
5.5 Two types of cultural communication and demographic variables Relative contributions to acculturation level
5.6 Summary
CHAPTER SIX – RESULTS OF DISSATISFACTION LEVEL AND DESIRE TO RE-EMIGRATE
6.1 Discriminant analyses of desire to re-emigrate
6.2 Dissatisfaction levels among local Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants in the Republic of South Africa
6.3 Dissatisfaction level and the desire to re-emigrate
6.4 contributions of demographic variables to dissatisfaction patterns and desire
to re-emigrate among Taiwanese immigrants
6.5 Two patterns of dissatisfaction and demographic variables : Relative contributions to desire to re-emigrate
CHAPTER SEVEN – THE MODEL OF TAIWANESE IMMIGRANTS’ DESIRE TO RE-EMIGRATE
7.1 Dissatisfaction and acculturation as two intermediate variables
7.2 Socio-economic achievements, adaptive abilities and family ties as independent variables
7.3 Path analyses
7.3.1 Original path model
7.3.2 Alternative path model
CHAPTER EIGHT – DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
8.1 Methodological implications of the study The measurement problems of acculturation, dissatisfaction and desire to re-emigrate
8.2 Path model and hypotheses
8.3 Demographic variables: Determinants of acculturation, dissatisfaction and desire to re-emigrate
8.4 Implications of this study for future empirical studies of acculturation, dissatisfaction and desire to re-emigrate References
Appendix 1 copies of cover letters
(English and Chinese)
Appendix 2 : Sample copy of questionnaire