SOCIAL CAPITAL, MIGRATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION

Migrant marriage has been as a response to the globalized world. The important issue with regards to this research is to understand how immigrants integrate into the host for individuals and community development in this context. This paper focuses upon the ways in which social capital is utilizes to promote the integration of Vietnamese women marriaged to Taiwan husbands into their family and the host. Social capital constitutes "resources that can be used by the actors to realize their interests". Social integration is interpreted as being the process of inclusion and acceptance of individuals in a system, the creation of relationships among individuals and their subsequent attitudes towards society. This paper is based on a case study undertaken in 2014 on the Penghu Islands and in Taipei, Taiwan. Main findings: The values and norms of responsibility of women in family has been developed and practiced effectively by Vietnamese women marriaged to Taiwan husbands to integrate into their family. The regulations and legal environment for immigrants have created favorable conditions for their integration into the host. Traditional Vietnamese cooking skills are chosen by many Vietnamese women as a kind of social capital for their access to the Taiwanese job market. The social integration is reflected through: sociale-conomic, culture integration and citizenship. It is hoped that research results are useful scientific basis for developing policies that promote the social integration of immigrants for the development of individuals and the social community.