我們有多元文化城市嗎？台北都會區東南亞族裔領域化的機制、類型與作用
摘要
This paper discusses the structural mechanisms and functions of ”ethnic territorialization” through the case of Southeast Asian consumptive space in Taipei metropolitan area. Ethnic territorialization means the territorially construction of ethnicity which often leads to the forming of ethnic places or clusters, but it also involves multiple boundary-crossing and boundary-making. Firstly, the author argues that the mechanisms of Taipei's Southeast Asian ethnic territorialization include transnational diaspora, difference in citizenship, urban governance strategies, and class boundary-making which act on different geographical scales. And the combination of different mechanisms brings about four overlapping types of consumptive landscapes: exotic landscape under cultural economy, survival landscape under ethnic economy, ethnic enclave under citizenship and house ownership, and the flowing interstitial landscape under class exclusion and urban renewal. Finally, in prospecting for the positive functions of these ethnic places, there are two dimensions: (1) for the Southeast Asian migrants, they act as transnational nodes of ethnic economic network and ethnic public space which may change from marginal ”interstice” to social ”levers”; and (2) for Taiwanese society, these ethnic places arouse dynamics of border-crossing and hybridity, and may foster a spatial ethics of coexistence for acting as ”reflexive heterotopia” in a multi-ethnic city.