金融海嘯席捲全球，政府為搶救失業率與振興經濟，而有擬訂裁減外籍勞工來救本籍勞工的政策，相關單位也將申請外籍看護工的門檻提高，有意的裁減外勞比例，藉此釋出工作機會給本籍勞工，但似乎沒有考慮到，外籍勞工的工作量和工作類型是否是本勞願意做的。同時在2000年時，我國也因為遇上網路泡沫化、股市暴跌、失業問題攀升等經濟問題，所以有關單位將外籍看護工的申請門檻大幅提升，結果由於一般家庭無法負擔本國看護的高收費，失業問題未明顯改善，反而對身心障礙與病弱老人的照護問題造成嚴重的影響。此外，新竹市65歲以上老人自民國86年起占總人口之比率從8.38％，截至96年12月底老年人口比例9.21％，已超越聯合國所訂高齡化社會水準指標7％，顯見新竹市人口結構趨向高齡化。依據新竹市政府主計處的資料顯示，從民國93年至97年的社會福利預算支出年年攀升的情況下，可以看出新竹市政府對社會福利的重視。根據統計資料顯示，民國90年起至97年間，新竹市老人僱用外籍看護工的數量還是持續上升，在社會福利支出持續上升，以及老人使用機構式照護比例偏高的情況下，雇用外籍看護工的數量還是持續上升，導致了外籍看護工間接取代長期照護機構的功能，以及直接影響了本籍看護工的就業機會。本文先就外籍勞工引進的政策背景做介紹，再從管制政策中的政策工具來檢視我國引進外籍看護工的考量，引進後對新竹市的老人照顧資源上有哪些改善，以及在政策執行導致哪些相關問題與因應對策，之後再介紹新竹外籍看護工管理問題的現況，最後針對新竹市做為實證個案進行分析，提出總結與相關政策建議。

No doubt, we are facing with the aging society, the long-term care about elder man had become the serious problem. However, with the changing of the life style, Taiwan industry and the structure of the economy had dramatically changed, the female have more educational level and they are willing to be employed increasingly. Under this situation, the lacking of the elder care resources had forced us to emphasis. Although our government deregulate the foreign caretakers which mostly come from the Asia country to care the inability elder people, female caretakers haven't to get responsibility of taking care the elders day by day. The Hsinchu city had been facing with the aging society since 1997. According to the result of government's statistics, this city had been employed more and more elder foreign caretakers in Hsinchu since 2001. Besides, Hsinchu city also had serious problem to manage the long-term care's institution for inability. To sum up, under these two conditions, that's the really reason why we have more and more foreign caretakers in Hsinchu city. Therefore, the study chose this city as the example, using survey and interview research method, and presenting the reality from the policy stakeholder's perspectives.