ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the campaign of Alliance for Human Rights Legislation of Immigrants and Migrants (AHRLIM) after 2008 during the Kuomintang (KMT) administration, with a focus on the overlapped as well as divergent interests between Marriage Association of Two Sides of China (MATSC) and AHRLIM. It compares the changed political environment before and after 2008 and the strategies employed by the migrant movement as a response to the new political opportunities after 2008. Current literature on the migrant movement in Taiwan is problematically dominated by a dichotomy of inside-out and outside-in perspectives. The chapter describes that the migrant movement in Taiwan as a flexible alignment in which component groups act at times as in a united front and at other times pursue their own agenda when the environment is ripe for changes favourable to a specific group.
