Event Title: Global Production Networks, the State, and Migrant Workers: Governing Labour in the Semiconductor Industry 

Time: May 4, 2026 (Monday), 13:30-16:00 (GMT+8, Taiwan Time) 

Venue: Onsite and online synchronous session, conducted entirely in Mandarin with English simultaneous interpretation 
Onsite Venue: A401, Assembly Building I, Guangfu Campus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 
Online: Webex link will be sent to your email after registration 

Link to Register: https://forms.gle/MGeKL23maq2hacPM8

Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Yu-Fan Chiu, School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 

Keynote Speaker: Asst. Prof. Ting-Chien Chen, Department of Geography, National Kaohsiung Normal University 

Discussants: 

Prof. Mei-Lin Pan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 

Dr. Chiung-Chih Chen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Resilient and Sustainable Development Center, National Tsing Hua University 

Abstact: 

The semiconductor industry is one of Taiwan's core industries. 

In view of the labor issues embedded in this sector, NYCU School of Law and the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS) have, for many years, engaged with issues concerning migrant workers and labor. 

This event, organized under Subproject 3, "Migration, Unequal Citizenship, and Critical Legal Studies," features a lecture by Assistant Professor Ting-Chien Chen of the Department of Geography at National Kaohsiung Normal University. 

The session will also include responses from Associate Professor Yu-Fan Chiu, the project's principal investigator, Professor Mei-Lin Pan, and Postdoctoral Researcher Chiung-Chih Chen, who will jointly focus on the governance of migrant labor in Taiwan's semiconductor industry. 

Specializing in economic and population geography, Assistant Professor Ting-Chien Chen will adopt a Global Production Network (GPN) perspective to examine how the state, corporations, and labor-market intermediaries jointly shape the migrant labor regime in Taiwan's semiconductor industry. 

She will also guide us in reflecting on broader issues of labor governance, risk shifting, and power asymmetries.