Over the past decade, as Taiwanese businesses have advanced southward and westward, and the government has opened Taiwan's doors to foreign laborers, more and more Taiwanese men have crossed the seas to marry women from mainland China and the countries of Southeast Asia, and the foreign brides they have brought back with them have become a group too large to be ignored.
近十年來，隨著台商南向、西進，政府開放外勞，台灣有越來越多人跨海與大陸、東南亞國家的女性結婚，跨海而來的外籍新娘，已成了不可忽視的一群。