He says that most Ali people work in the lowlands, and in order to register their kids in school they had to move their legal domicile down, though their identity is still with the old hometown. If they are excluded from the new settlement because of a narrow reading of the law, these 30-plus households will become “ driftwood ” rooted nowhere.
大部分阿禮人因在山下有工作，為方便孩子入學才把戶籍遷下來或乾脆在山下買房子，但他們的認同仍在部落，若因狹隘的法令而被排除在新聚落之外，這三十幾戶族人將成為沒有根的浮萍。