To encourage the new residents’ children to return back to their grandparents’ homes, carry out the family life, learn language, cultural exchange experience, and share the learning results after return back to Taiwan, this year the Immigration Department (NIA) has expanded the “2019 New Residents’ Children’s Overseas Program”. Combined with the winter and summer vacation, for the first time it add the same topic group. The sailing ceremony was held on June 15. The Deputy Director of the NIA said that the people who got selected can connect to the international community through the opportunity to return to their hometowns and learn to communicate. The teachers and social workers who accompany them can continue to promote the cross-cultural knowledge education after returning to Taiwan, breed for the international development and new southbound policy.
In this event there were about 210 groups registered, after the selection meeting, there were 8 groups and 24 teachers that were selected, 2 social groups with 6 people, 1 peer group with 3 people, and 90 family groups with 180 people. In total, there are 101 groups with 213 people, from Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Macedonia and the mainland China region, 14 countries or regions. These groups will return to their parents’ home countries during the summer vacation, conduct a life study program for at least 14 days, through the infiltration experience and local culture, understand the language and cultural advantages of their own, and achieve the purpose of the international talent cultivation.
Multicultural experience link the mother language and the family relatives
Luo Hong jie (羅弘杰) has a grandfather who runs the pepper garden in Indonesia and the mother was growing up in the Indonesian pepper environment. The other grandfather who has been working in the restaurant got the image of the mother, indirectly recognize and use the Indonesian pepper as the seasoning. Pepper is not only the hobby for the whole family, but also the symbol of the Indonesian and Taiwanese culture. Therefore, based on the theme of “Indonesian Pepper Culture” he hopes that this time by returning to Indonesia, he will experience the process of pepper cultivation and the process of handmade pepper.
Chen Jinghua (陳靜華), a student at the Social Work Department of National Pingtung University of Science and Technology is thinking about the return plan for her own learning process and the multicultural family background. She plans 5 major axes of “the family link”, “cultural”, “diet quest”, “language exchange”, and “working experience”. Through the interaction with the relatives, she hopes to explore and compare the history and the culture of Thailand and Cambodia, including the religion and eating habits, to reach the cultural exchange with Thailand, Cambodia, and Taiwan.
Publication for the sharing and learning results is on November
In order to make the participant have more understand about the outline of the journey, the NIA also invited the 2018 selected person, Luo Pinxun (羅品勛) to share the program with the father, Luo Siluo (羅斯洛). The experience and feeling made the selected person to be aware with the multicultural, as well as allows the winners to have more different ideas about how the results report has to be written and presented.
The Deputy Director, Liang Guohui (梁國輝) said that more than 540.000 new residents came to Taiwan for their marriage and the number of the new residents now is over 410.000 people. The languages and multicultural advantages is an important boost to promote Taiwan’s international diversification. The NIA will handle the results presentation in early November, select 12 groups’ preference and issue $5000 gift certificate as the reward. The results will be placed in the Development Information Network for New Residents, let you to browse and download , enable the community to have more substantive understanding of the new culture of the new residents.
