近年學界對大陸臺商社群及其所形成的認同，開始有了較多的研究，主要關切臺商經歷長 時期橫跨兩岸的生活型態，對於他們的集體認同與情感是否會產生影響。 當前對此議題一些較新的文獻，主要歧異點在於：究竟臺商此種遷移型態是屬於傳統移 民？還是跨國移民 (transnational immigrant) ？甚或是一種民族內的遷移？前者是社會學移民研 究的觀點，這也是傳統海外華人研究的一個重要領域；其次則有臺商研究學者以「跨國主義」 (transnationlism) 觀點來進行探討；晚近另有學者並從政治學的觀點著手，所採取之觀點乃緣自 「多體制國家」、「分裂國家」或「共同屋頂理論」(common roof theory) 的主張，並由其中演 化出「民族內共同體」、「連綴社群」的概念。 本文乃以布赫迪厄 (Bourdieu) 的「場域論」 (field theory) 作為研究途徑，基本經驗資料是 獲自2013 年7、8 月間在大陸臺商聚集最多的昆山與東莞兩地所進行的田野研究之材料，文中 運用這些獲自田野之實際訪談對於上述概念的合理性進行探討。 根據文獻探討及田野研究的內容，本文意圖建立一個有關臺商認同的類型學(typology)，除 了就「方法論的民族國家容器」觀點與「社會流動論」觀點，來區辨臺商遷徙的型態，並且嘗 試進一步確認此類移民在公民身分及族群認同上與傳統民族國家成員之間所存有的差異。

Whether the life experiences and mode the Taiwanese merchants in Mainland China affect their ethnic identity with Taiwan has been extensively explored by scholars. The key issue indeed is how to define what kind of migrants they are. Are they traditional migrants, transnational migrants, or people movement within a nation-state? Sociologists might see them as traditional migrants and call them overseas Chinese; while political scientists have applied theories of multi-system nations, divided nation, or the common roof theorem and suggest notions of “intra-national commonwealth” or “linkage community” to delimit the group. The objective of this article is to develop a typology based on data collected from Kunshan and Dongguan in field studies during July and August in 2013. In addition to perspectives of nationalism and fluidism, this study confirms that the identities of ethnicity and citizenship of this group of people are not the same as those addressed in traditional comparative studies of migration across nation states.