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Taiwan’s migrant worker population continues to grow, amid a looming labor shortage in many so-called “unskilled” positions. Companies in manufacturing have long employed cheap labor from Southeast Asian countries, and many caregivers are foreign workers. As of February this year, Taiwan had 860,000 migrant workers, more than 70% of whom are Indonesian or Vietnamese. In recent years, even the hospitality sector has been employing international students through vocational programs and university courses, blurring the line between students and migrant workers.
This busboy replenishing the plates at this restaurant in a 5-star hotel is a university student from Indonesia.
The chef making beef noodles fresh to order is also foreign.
Chen Han-yu
Training manager at hotel
Nowadays, many vocational colleges and universities have courses to attract students from Southeast Asia, so there are a lot of international students. As part of the courses, they visit the hotel and have a look around. We also get interns from vocational schools abroad that we have partnerships with.
The hospitality industry and educational institutions have rolled out programs that bring foreign students to work at hotels as quasi migrant workers. These students can be considered part of Taiwan’s migrant worker population, which has grown significantly amid severe labor shortages.
Taiwan had 860,000 migrant workers in February this year, according to the Ministry of Labor. They are mainly from Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. Taiwan ranks third in Asia for total numbers, behind Japan with 2.57 million migrant workers and South Korea with 1.1 million.
Wu Yu-hsun
Eastern Union Interactive
Indonesian migrant workers are mainly employed in nursing and home care. Vietnamese workers mostly work in the manufacturing sector, in production. For migrant workers from the Philippines, it’s the electronics sector, and those from Thailand are mostly in heavy industry and construction.
Businesses rely on migrant workers as a way to cheaply fill in labor gaps in industries from manufacturing to care giving. Now, even the hospitality industry has access to this foreign workforce through educational institutions.
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