Introduction The United States and Canada rank first and second, respectively, as the most popular destinations for Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants.2 Recent literature on new Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants to western countries has focused on those who have arrived since the late 1980s. Yet many of those immigrants studied have not stayed permanently in their host countries, but have adopted a transnational residence pattern which requires them to engage in two or more social fields3 (Waters 2002; Chee 2005; Chiang 2006, 2008). Research on Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants in Canada has focused on new immigrants who were in most cases transnationals, unlike the early immigrants who adopted a linear movement pattern and settled permanently.