Taiwanese in Vietnam

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Taiwanese expatriates and descendants in Vietnam
在越南的臺灣人
Total population
20,000
Regions with significant populations
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam
Related ethnic groups
Han Chinese, Baiyue

Taiwanese expatriates and descendants in Vietnam consist largely of expatriate businessmen and their families. The Ho Chi Minh City branch of the Taipei-based Taiwan External Trade Development Council estimates that 20,000 people from Taiwan were living in Vietnam as of 2002. [1]

According to statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are an estimated 3,000 women in Vietnam, formerly married to Taiwanese husbands, who have been left stateless after their divorces; the women had given up Vietnamese nationality to naturalize as Republic of China citizens at the time of their marriage, but then returned to Vietnam following their divorces and gave up their Republic of China nationality in the process of applying for restoration of Vietnamese nationality. Their children, who hold only Republic of China nationality and have never previously been Vietnamese nationals, are ineligible to enter publicly supported schools in Vietnam. [2]

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References

  1. Li, Francis (15 November 2002). "'Going South' to Vietnam pays off for investors". Taiwan Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2008.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Chung, Chin-lung (12 December 2007). "聯合國刊物報導 嫁台越南新娘淪為無國籍困境 (United Nations report: Vietnamese brides married to Taiwan men fall into the trap of statelessness)". Radio Taiwan International (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2008.