碩士 / 世新大學 / 社會發展研究所(含碩專班) / 105 / By reflecting on my personal experience of anti-gambling campaign and the issue of withdrawing the troops, I came to realize that my hometown is indeed a “militarized island” and therefore I began to explore the root cause of the outflow of population in Matsu’s fishing villages. It is apparent that most of the past researches and studies have deduced that the decreasing population in fishing villages and the emigration from Matsu is due to China’s overfishing instead of the influence from the military administration’s policies from 1956 to 1992. Therefore, this thesis provides an alternative perspective on Matsu Fishery issue by focusing on the fishermen families’ conditions during military administration period and analyzing how military administration has affected Matsu fishery.
There are two intertwined mechanisms, the military fortification and the fortification of wartime economy, constructing the ruling of the military administration. The military fortification includes grassroot monitoring and mobilization, control of goods and migration of people, and monitoring political thoughts. The fortification of wartime economy is to use US aid to develop fishery economy based on the purpose of defense. With such two-fold mechanisms, the KMT government employed laws and regulations to legitimate its regime. The “Experimental Scheme of War Area Administration in Jinmen and Mazu” was therefore enacted to legitimize its military power and its control of the grassroot organnizations, productive enterprises, migration of people and goods, education, and various inspections. Meanwhile, the executive body of US aid in villages of Matsu, the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, had been developing fishing industry to maintain livelihood of the fishermen, so they could lower the risks of having political turmoil while having stable food sources for the army. As the results of implementing the two-two mechanism, Matsu’s fishing industry had been constructed as “hard work with no future” and couldn’t support family’s livelihoods.
The labor of Matsu’s fising industry began to decrease in 1961, which was also the beginning of the collapse of fishing villages. The shortage of labor in fishing industry now is resulted from the double impacts of military control and wartime economic policies, which led to the movement of labor to the prosperous commercial areas benefitted from the business with the military to perform non-fishing production, as well as the emigration of fishing labor to the Export-Processing Zones in Taiwan. Consequently, Matsu is facing the shortage of fishing labor, the decline of the fishery, and the dependence on the Mainland Chinese fishing labor.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105SHU00655008 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | TSAO,YA-PING, 曹雅評 |
| Contributors | HSIA, HSIAO-CHUAN, 夏曉鵑 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 107 |
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