Anger from fishermen has broken out after plans by German energy company EnerVest to develop wind farms near the islets of Huaping, Mianhua, and Pengjia. Controversy regarding the issue follows a familiar dynamic in Taiwan...
Efforts by the European Union, specifically under its illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing regulations in 2015, have brought a sharp focus on the employment conditions on Taiwanese fishing vessels and the climate of illegality that enables unsustainable fishing and labor abuses. This has shone a harsh light on the labor exploitation of migrants working on fishing vessels with a connection to Taiwan...
It should have proven of little surprise when Taiwan found itself on the US Department of Labor’s list of goods believed to be produced by forced labor for the first time late last month...
There has been increased focus on the issue of migrant fishermen abuses in Taiwan in the past month as a result of a Control Yuan probe into a 2019 report by Greenpeace ...
The International Center for Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University recently held a conference on “Dialogue between Law and Society – A Seminar on Migrant Workers’ Labor Rights and Government Policies”...
The latest round of protests against the exploitative migrant labor brokerage system saw hundreds of people demonstrating outside the Indonesian, Filipino, and Vietnamese representative offices in Taipei in early November. Yet the Taiwanese Ministry of Labor responded to the protests by washing its hands of any responsibility for upholding this predatory system of labor brokerage. The Ministry of Labor's deference to the free market is consistent with the government’s goal of treating Southeast Asian migrant workers employed through the guest worker program as cheap and disciplined labor power...
Attacks against the Yilan Migrant Fishermen Union have intensified in the wake of the astonishing collapse of the Nanfang’ao Bridge earlier this month...
The ripple effects from the collapse of the Nanfang’ao Bridge are slowly but surely merging with political currents in Taiwan, redirecting their force, and fashioning social relations anew...
A Facebook group “Nanfangao, a small village but full of love,” emerged in the days after the collapse of the Nanfang'ao cross-harbor bridge in early October...
A working group formed under the auspices of the Fisheries Agency has been meeting to discuss the labor rights of migrant workers employed aboard Taiwan’s distant water fleet...
