Flowers Roaming Between The Cross-strait

Since 1987 Taiwan opening up the mainland residents to visit relatives, then allow mainland residents to stay, extended care and engaging in various activities in Taiwan, and was gradually relaxed the limitation of Taiwanese investment in mainland China. With the deregulation of policy, people across the Taiwan Straits to visit relatives, economic trade, tourism, culture and education interactions, are increasingly frequent, the cross-strait marriages have also increased. So far, there are 260,000 mainland spouses who have reached Taiwan. Based on depth interview with six mainland female spouses from Fujian to Taiwan, this essay according the experience of their immigration, analyzing their motivation of immigrating by marriage, then trying to find out the situation of their life and work after they reach Taiwan.This study found that the immigrant motivations of Mainland women present diversity. Economic reasons have been unable to explain the motivations of them. It is even more worthy to pay attention to their gender factor in the society. When they made the decision to immigrant to Taiwan by marriage, they took the overall benefit of their whole family into account. In addition, the women from Mainland China expect to break through the traditional patriarchal relationship, and then grab the Independent living.However, the government of Taiwan set up large number of barriers to immigrant women, such as the residence, work visa, certificated education and health care, which seriously affected the daily life of the female spouses. Moreover, the mass media, marriage intermediaries, the general public and even the family of their husband are treated female spouses from Mainland China with bias, which made them live with stigma. They can feel the stigma in their daily life, such as live only for money, ignorance, compliableness, free family labor or even the machine for birthing.The research indicates that the process of immigration through marriage does not seem to have "liberated" these women; their pay has not changed gender relations and their status in the family and gender culture. Finally, through discussing the problem of the marriage across the Taiwan Straits, make policy recommendations, which expect to develop a virtuous circle in the marriage model to improve the interaction and integration between the people of the Taiwan Straits.