The street behind this station was once an old shopping district, quieter than the bustling front side of the station. Walk through this area on a Sunday now,…
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The street behind this station was once an old shopping district, quieter than the bustling front side of the station.
Walk through this area on a Sunday now, and you'll hear Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino languages, and Thai all mingling in the air. These are people who have come from Southeast Asia to work in Taiwan's factories and in caregiving. Taoyuan, with its many factories, is home to an especially large number of migrant workers within Taiwan.
The signs change their lettering. An Indonesian grocery store, a shop handling remittances back home, a mobile phone store. People who spend their weekdays in factory dormitories gather here on their days off.
They buy boxed lunches with the taste of home, and sit talking with friends. They call across the sea to speak with family. This street becomes, once a week, a small piece of home.
There are also those who married Taiwanese people and settled here. They are called "new residents," and their children now study in Taiwanese schools.
This street is the newest page in the history of Taoyuan — a place that has welcomed Hakka people, military dependents' villages, and people from Yunnan before them.
Next Sunday, too, this street will once again come alive with many languages.
