{"id":2749,"date":"2015-07-05T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=2749"},"modified":"2020-05-19T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:43:47","slug":"neither-compatriots-nor-refugees-status-discrimination-of-exiled-tibetans-and-the-contradictory-faces-of-the-republic-of-china-taiwan-by-mei-lin-pan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=2749","title":{"rendered":"Neither compatriots nor refugees: Status discrimination of exiled Tibetans and the contradictory faces of the Republic of China (Taiwan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vol. 11, No. 2 (2015), 41\u201359<\/p>\n

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This article focuses on the double liminality that exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan today. In the context of the international political system, refugees or stateless people cannot be placed into any existing order of nation-states. Refugees are in a state of liminality. With its national title “Republic of China” (ROC), Taiwan has been placed in an ambiguous position with its status as neither a nation-state nor a non-nation-state ever since the ROC was expelled from the United Nations. The ROC is in a state of liminality among states in the international order. In addition, Taiwan claims its sovereignty over Tibet, despite losing this sovereignty in 1949 to the communists. 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.<\/p>\n

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Mei-Lin Pan is associate professor of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and deputy dean of College of Hakka Studies at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Her areas of research are on economic sociology and development sociology, especially on the survival strategies of migrants and refugees. Her recent articles include: \u201cThe Changing Character and Survival Strategies of the Chinese community in India,\u201d China Report<\/em> Vol. 50, No. 3 (August 2014); \u201cThe Tea Production Regime of Beipu and Emei,\u201d Journal of Hakka Studies<\/em> Vol. 6, No. 1 (2013); and \u201cA Displaced Moral Economy: Tibetan Refugee Sweater Markets and Associations in India,\u201dTaiwanese Journal of Sociology <\/em>No. <\/em>46 (June 2011).<\/p>\n

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