本篇論文以「法律與社會」的研究方法，分析近年來在臺灣的外籍配偶相關法律規範修正論述。本文的主要問題意識為：雖經過眾多學者專家與人權團體的呼籲，加上行政、司法、立法機關各相關單位的努力，改良了外籍配偶在臺灣的相關法律規範與政策，例如放寬歸化條件、改善各項輔導與補助。但這些改進過後或正在改進中的各項法規範、政策與相關論述背後，是否帶有女性主義法理學向來所批評的，陷入單一的父權家庭模式的刻板性別偏見？本篇論文的研究限於篇幅，僅討論東南亞籍的女性外籍配偶相關法規範論述的法律與社會分析，將不涉及大陸配偶的問題，因為複雜的兩岸關係，使得兩岸人民通婚的法律、政策、單一婚姻個案中的性別與權力等，遠比臺灣男性與東南亞籍女性通婚更為複雜。本文的貢獻主要有二：一為提供「法律與社會」分析模式，希望這對於向來注重「立即提出對策式」的法學研究方法，有另類的啟發。二是本文以「外籍配偶」議題所涉及的性別、權力，與「家庭的物質化基礎」等議題，企圖擴大身分法的研究主題與研究規模，希望在研究身分法的程序面與實質面的同時，能夠注意到跨國流動時，一個屋簷下已經發生的多元家庭現象。

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on legal discourse to analyze how legal regulations have been altered to respond to the foreign spouses phenomenon. In particular, it employs a socio-legal analytical perspective to discuss how amending, executing, and manipulating the legal regulations on foreign spouses reflects an ideology of gender, patriarchy, social stability, and national security in Taiwan. The issue of the high rate of marriage with Mainland Chinese spouses involves unique complexities of nationality identity, terrain threats, and political-social climate changes between Taiwan and Mainland China. This paper explores how the intimacy regulation is different between Southeast Asian foreign spouses and Mainland Chinese spouses (with a primary focus on the former rather than the latter). It concludes by summarizing that, from a social perspective, cross-border marriages are promoted by multiple hierarchies (e.g., class, gender, culture, etc.) and are casting the female foreign spouse as an obedient wife, qualified mother, and dutiful daughter-in-law in order to profit the family/state. From a regulatory/legal perspective, the enforcement of various acts, rules, laws, and regulations may create a backlash originating from the nostalgia of patriarchy and stereotypical gender roles in marriage.