Entering the Care Home in Nangang, Taipei City, the children of migrant workers were placed here for various reasons and developed a deep friendship with their teachers. (Photo/Photo by Zhao Shixun)
Nearly 400,000 of the 720,000 migrant workers introduced to Taiwan are women, and the current maximum length of stay for migrant workers in Taiwan is 12 to 14 years. If female migrant workers give birth in Taiwan, they are likely to be fired by their employers, leaving them forced to As migrant workers become missing, most of the children they give birth to become “unknown babies” without legal status. Wang Guanting, director of the Taiwan Care Foundation, said that Taiwan’s current laws have many measures and protections for pregnant migrant workers, but due to information inequity and language and cultural differences, many misunderstandings have resulted in many migrant workers mistakenly believing that they will be deported if they become pregnant. , will allow the number of black household babies to continue to increase.
According to the investigation of this magazine, the identification of non-national children can be roughly divided into 4 categories. 1. “The father is Taiwanese and the mother is a foreign migrant worker.” As long as the mother obtains a single certificate from the mother country and the father attaches a paternity test, he can report to the household registration agency Process the claim and let the child acquire the nationality of the country; 2 “The biological father is unknown and the mother is a missing migrant worker”, which is the most likely to make the child stateless; 3 “The biological parents are foreigners and are illegal missing migrant workers” , this type of child does not have a birth certificate, and is also a black mark in the community; 4 “The father and mother are unknown”, the child is dumped in the hospital or police station, and is deemed an abandoned baby. After half a year, the child can obtain the nationality of the country in accordance with the “Nationality Law” .
The Ministry of the Interior has formulated the “Standard Operating Procedures for Issuing a Residence Permit for Dependent Children of Non-Native Nationality”. If the children are recognized as stateless persons, the Immigration Department can issue a residence permit for stateless aliens so that they can be placed and fostered. , health insurance, medical treatment and education and daily life care. If adopted by a Chinese citizen, the Chinese citizen can apply for naturalization on his behalf in accordance with Article 4 of the Nationality Law and obtain Chinese nationality. If the child has not been adopted by a Chinese citizen but is under the guardianship of a social welfare agency (institution), the social welfare agency (institution) may apply for naturalization of Chinese nationality on his or her behalf.
A pregnant Indonesian female migrant worker tested positive for HIV in Yunlin. The Taoyuan City Special Task Force received a tip-off and eventually found her at her friend’s residence in Ping Town, Taoyuan. (Photo/Provided by Taoyuan Special Service Team)
One of the service projects of the Taiwan Care Foundation is “care for non-national children”. It has contacted more than 800 referral cases. Director Wang Guanting said that as far as she knows, there are at least 50 non-national babies in a mountainous area in central China. Their parents They are all illegal lost migrant workers, engaged in agricultural work in the mountains, and take their children with them. The foundation once received a case where the child weighed only 4 kilograms when he was 8 months old, far lower than the normal range of 6 to 10 kilograms. The child’s limbs were skinny and skinny, but his belly was unusually large, just like a malnourished child in a refugee camp. He was diagnosed as an anal patient, and only with the help of donations from well-wishers did emergency surgery and drainage save his life.
She said that although the migrant workers were legal or were placed due to labor disputes, and most of the children had no problems with vaccinations, there were still problems in obtaining health insurance cards. Some migrant workers also said that after giving birth to their children, Later, I wanted to apply for health insurance, but was rejected by the company I worked for. Some agencies also charged a lot of fees because the migrant workers were pregnant. Maybe the replacement of the health insurance card only costs 200 yuan, but the agency charges 2,000 yuan, but no one can take care of it. .
Nangang Care Home takes in a total of 54 children, ranging in age from 0 to 6 years old. In addition to non-national children, there are also children who have been referred by the Social Bureau due to low family functioning. (Photo/Photo by Zhao Shixun)
In fact, Taiwan has already abolished the previous regulations requiring migrant workers not to get married or get pregnant while employed. Legal migrant workers who are pregnant are protected by the Gender Equality at Work Act and are entitled to maternity leave, miscarriage leave, and miscarriage leave. They can apply for maternity leave after giving birth. Infant leave, leave without pay, family care leave, and maternity benefits can be applied for in accordance with labor insurance regulations. Their spouses can also have paternity leave and paternity check-up leave.
When a migrant worker becomes pregnant, both parties can agree to terminate the employment relationship, and the migrant worker may change employers or jobs. If the migrant worker feels physically or mentally unwell during the change period, the change of employer may be postponed for up to 60 days from the end of the pregnancy; migrant workers during pregnancy may If there are special circumstances that prevent the migrant worker from arranging his or her own life, the relevant unit may provide 60 days of emergency placement. If the emergency placement ends and the migrant worker is waiting to return to the country or has the need to live in Taiwan, the placement may be extended to 6 months after the end of pregnancy.
The Taoyuan City Government is the first to establish a national migrant worker pregnancy resource platform and entrusts the Lixin Social Welfare Foundation to operate a foreign maternal and child consultation center to provide relevant consulting services, supportive companionship, emergency placement, work continuation and job transition, etc. District services. The Ministry of Labor also provides a 24-hour 1955 labor consultation hotline, but many migrant workers still think that they must return to their country if they are pregnant. They are not even aware of the existence of the 1955 labor consultation hotline, because both agents and employers say that they must return to their country if they become pregnant, so they rely on relevant The department strengthened publicity.
2024-02-24 22:00:00
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