Welfare Policies, Migration and Governance in Korea and Taiwan

Panel I: Welfare Policies and Governance in Korea and Taiwan

• Democracy, Development and Welfare: An Examination of the Taiwanese Case/ Yeun-Wen Ku (National Taiwan University) and Chung-Yang Yeh (Soochow University)
• Changing Dynamics of Social Policy in Democracy: Comparing Pension and Health Reforms in Taiwan/ Shih-Jiunn Shi (National Taiwan University) and Hsiu-Hui Chen (Tung-hai University)
• Declining Family Support and Inequality and Poverty among Older Adults: Lessons from South Korea/ Inhoe Ku and Seoyun Lee (Seoul National University)
• Understanding Causes of Low Fertility in South Korea: A Look into the Gender-Equity and Family-Friendly Framework/ Kun Lee (University of Oxford) and Asghar Zaidi (Seoul National University/University of Oxford)

Panel II: Migration Policies and Governance in Korea and Taiwan

• New Skilled Migration Policy in Taiwan/ Yen-Fen Tseng and Hsuan-Chan Hsieh (National Taiwan University)
• Having Local Friends Matter: Everyday Discrimination, Intergroup Relations, and General Relationship Wellbeing among Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Taiwan and South Korea/ Hsin-Chieh Chang (National Taiwan University)
• Transnational Ethnic Network of Marriage Migration: The Circuit of Remittances, Mobilities, and Development between Vietnam and South Korea/ HaeRan Shin and Bui Thi My Hang (Seoul National University)
• Assimilation and Exclusion: Dualistic Control through Gendered Status and Mobility Limitation in Migration Governance in South Korea/ Hyunjoo Jung (Seoul National University)