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5.2 Suggestions
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Besides, the present regulations put into effect on marriage migrants’ residence, work and other rights or the discrimination and inequality seen in the labor market are quite important for widening or squeezing the accesses of migrants’ employment.
Finally, the differences in the cultures and the stance in societies of the origin and host countries definitely have impacts on marriage migrants employment.
6. The main reason behind marriage migration is the chance to change
The dominant motive to migrate via marriage is the opportunity to better their life condition; the most attractive incentive to migrate via marriage is the advantages or benefit offered by the government of receiving countries. The determination of foreign women to migrate via transnational marriage is out of opportunity pursuit.
Transnational marriage is a kind of method rather than a final goal for foreign brides.
Furthermore, the purpose of the transnational marriage is the benefit obtaining from the transnational marriage.
5.2 Suggestions
Aside from the findings mentioned above, several suggestions are proposed for the government and future study in this section.
1. Further researchers are to refine the analytic measurement of variables of marriage migrants’ labor participation to obtain more findings
It is crucial to refine the analytic measurement of variables of marriage migrants’
labor participation to obtain more cause and effect associated with it. The analysis in this study is based on an indirect method so the implications of estimating results are restricted.
2. Marriage migrants’ post-employment situation and outcomes deserve to study
The data comparison in this research paper is on the basis of secondary data and
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mainly focuses on the present economic status of marriage migrants and their potential solution to improve household finance, the further studies on the post-employment situation and the outcomes are still worthwhile to discover and explore more information for contributing to the migration research.
3. The government should provide more employment promotion programs for marriage migrants.
In order to decrease the occurrence of transnational marriage as a combination of poverty, the government ought to set a requirement of minimum financial proof to attain the qualification to marry foreign brides. On the other hand, the foreign brides are obligated to meet the requirement of communicative language ability.
Furthermore, except for the welfare measures for foreign brides, the government also enforces the caring and support policy for the second generation of mixed families.
Thus, the marriage migrants may work without worry about their children.
4. The channels of professional training and job supply should be more accessible and affordable for the migrants to be more effective
The finding shows that the marriage migrants and the mixed family are situated in the condition of insufficient job supply to gain additional income to improve their domestic economy and living environment, even to offer betters for the second generation of mixed families — so-called New Taiwanese Children. Therefore, the government may widen the access and channels of professional training and job information and supply in drafting and amending relative policies in the near future.
5. Global migration resulting from the global warming and climate change has to be the emphasis of the research in this century
According to the literature review of this study, a universal consensus of migration is that the trigger of migration is multiple and diversified, but the goal of human migration is all for better life and future. In his study, the focus is on the migration
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associated with economic aspect, here the author raises that future human migration will be environmentally-dominated due to the increasingly severe global warming and climate change leading to environmental deterioration and gradual decrease of land to live on. After all, human migration is all for human life improvement.
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