new immigrant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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. […] I love my adopted home and am proud of counting myself among its new immigrant population.

词形变化

new immigrants plural

词源

Calque of Mandarin 新住民 (xīnzhùmín).
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