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外婆家有事：台灣人必修的東南亞學分
「四方報」前總編輯張正長達八年，密切關注、貼身接觸東南亞移民移工的第一手觀察「他們是在『我們』裡面的異鄉人，但卻像默片裡的遊魂。」──駱以軍（擔任「移民工文學獎」評審時有感而發）你知道「東南亞」在哪裡，包含哪些國家？還是一想到東南亞，只想到越戰、人妖、椰子樹嗎？你知道台灣有100萬來自東南亞或者與東南亞有關的人？台灣明明距離東南亞這麼近，我們卻如此陌生，這是為什麼呢？家鄉貧困，不得已拋家棄子到外地打工謀生，自古有之，而在交通便利的現代社會，這種狀況更常見、數量也更大，而且常常跨越國界。這些人，我們稱之為移工（Migrant worker），也就是俗稱的外籍勞工。身在台灣的我們，很難迴避與東南亞移民移工相關的人事物，幾乎每個台灣人都有機會接觸到東南亞朋友。然而，我們會學習相對遙遠的德文、法文，卻不太可能學習印尼文、越南文、菲律賓文、泰文、緬甸文……這又是為什麼？是不是有莫名的歧視隱藏在我們心中而不自覺，甚或不以為錯誤？時序回到2013年8月11日，伊斯蘭教開齋節後的第一個星期假日，大批信奉伊斯蘭教的印尼移工聚集在台北車站。一位帶著家人從台南到台北旅遊的檢察官，忿忿地形容「台北車站已被外勞攻陷」！後續引發一連
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2014
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October 11, 2019
A great attempt at describing South East Asia, from the nations' history, political, economy, and culture point of views... However, the topics are too spread out, and the author needs some facts checked. For example, Indonesia is not a muslim country. This is a very common misunderstanding amongst Taiwanese.
And the portions of each SEA country explained in this book is imbalanced. The author often gave more space for 1) Vietnam 2) Philippine 3) Indonesia & Myanmar 4) the rest.
My suggestion is to dedicate 1 or 1/2 book to 1 country, so the author can create a complete series of introduction to SEA, instead of compressing all of them into 1 book, with varying degree of accuracy. Or maybe just focus on Vietnam first if it's the author specialty.
And the portions of each SEA country explained in this book is imbalanced. The author often gave more space for 1) Vietnam 2) Philippine 3) Indonesia & Myanmar 4) the rest.
My suggestion is to dedicate 1 or 1/2 book to 1 country, so the author can create a complete series of introduction to SEA, instead of compressing all of them into 1 book, with varying degree of accuracy. Or maybe just focus on Vietnam first if it's the author specialty.
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