new immigrant

English

Etymology

Calque of Mandarin 新住民 (xīnzhùmín).

Noun

new immigrant (plural new immigrants)

1. a person that immigrated to Taiwan after 1987, during and after the end of the martial law era; mainly used for Mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian women who migrate to Taiwan for marriage
   • 2020 November 3, P. Kerim Friedman, “What Kind of Country Does Taiwan Want To Be? Who’s Taiwanese?”, in The News Lens‎^[1]:

     Personally, I prefer to call myself a “new immigrant” in Mandarin (新住民), but it is a bit strange for Taiwanese when I call myself that because the term is mostly associated with foreign brides from Southeast Asia.

   • 2021 November 18, “Taiwan Bravo: The new immigrant experience in Taiwan”, in Taipei Times‎^[2]:

     Many new immigrants that have come to take up a new life in Taiwan have not been able to return home for the past two years because of the pandemic.

   • 2022 November 23, Yip Wai Yee, “Taiwan’s election candidates go all out to woo the new immigrant vote”, in Straits Times‎^[3]:

     Candidates like Ms Lu – who is standing for re-election as the head of Pingtung county’s Yanpu rural township – are trying to court new immigrants. Often referred to locally as “new residents”, they became Taiwanese typically through marriage. This means that they are eligible to vote.