Although there are no accurate figures on emigrants returning to Taiwan, companies here which handle emigration formalities estimate that since 1990, when Western economies went into recession, about half the male heads of new emigrant families gaining resident status in such countries as Canada, New Zealand and Australia, have returned to Taiwan after completing their arrival formalities.
台灣地區移民回流人數雖無精確的數字，但據移民業者估計，自一九九○年開始，西方國家經濟蕭條，取得加拿大、紐西蘭、澳洲等國居留權的新移民家庭，在完成報到手續後，有約半數家庭的男主人又回籠。