Looking back at Taiwan's history, there were waves of emigration after the withdrawal from the United Nations (197l), after the United States broke diplomatic relations (1978), and after the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo (1987). Most of these people left out of fear that Taiwan's political situation would be unstable, so most emigrated as family units.
分析早年台灣幾次顯著的移民潮分別出現在﹘ ﹘退出聯合國、中美斷交以及蔣經國總統去世之後，多半是擔憂台灣政局不穩定而買的「逃難」險，所以大都是舉家遷離。