The data shows almost half of the interviewees have stereotypes towards migrant workers. Although most of the people think they don’t have a stereotype, but discrimination and prejudice in Taiwan’s soceity is still a big issue. Seriously affect the human rights and self-esteem of migrant workers. More severely, the mainstream media in Taiwan often use negative and false news to deepen the society’s gap between Taiwanese and migrant workers as well as bigotry. At this point, this data result helps us to understand that there are certain portions of people lacking understanding and tolerance. Therefore, the society needs more people with good intentions to walk the entire public to understand migrant workers. And not using the prejudicial and biased attitude to criticize these hard-working workers.

　　The chart above shows most of the people have interactions with foreign migrant workers because they have home care foreign migrant workers in their house. The reason for many home care foreign migrant workers working in private houses is because Taiwan is gradually entering an aging society and also the declining birth-rates in recent years. Dependency ratio of young and middle-aged people has increased. In order to take care of the old, the number of migrant workers from Southeast Asia has also increased, so the issue of migration has also become a focus of social attention. At the same time, since most of the respondents are students, teachers, and parents, there is room for improvement for the questionnaire. The questionnaire can not fully access all the industries where the migrant workers are employed, it is impossible for us to further understand how people are exposed to migrant workers. On the other hand, the number of migrant workers in companies is relatively small, most of them are working in the manufacturing industry, so they can cope with the lack of work in the industrial chain. In general, we believe that most migrant workers are working in the manufacturing industry, and there are very few people working in the knowledge field. Most of them are doing labor work and using physical strength.

　　From the picture above, most of the respondents who have been interacting with the Southeast Asia migrant workers hired 1-3 Southeast Asia migrant workers. We can speculate most of the workers are the social welfare workers, so most of them only hire 1-3 migrant workers. Even though there are other options, however, the questionnaire limits us to access the complete data.

　In this questionnaire, 94.3% have heard of illegal migration, and a small number of them have never heard of illegal migration. Among them, respondents who know illegal migrant workers think that the main reason for migrant workers to run-away is due to living or financial difficulties, unequal treatment (such as employers asking for excessive working hours or unreasonable requirements), or the human smuggling syndicates. By looking at the migrant workers' life quality, most people think the life of migrant workers in their home country is poor, which causes most people to have a bad impression of them. Due to these reasons, migrant workers in order to seek a better life, have become illegal migrants that are often being discriminated against by Taiwan’s society. Furthermore, in terms of treating foreign workers, the data show that most people tend to think the employers apply unreasonable treatment to foreign workers due to stereotypes, differences in class level, culture and language; it is not just working overtime, migrants often face deprivation of privacy and leisure life. Not only the deprivation of privacy, there are also many dark sides in Taiwan society. With attractive titles and excellent treatment, the human smuggling syndicates have bought many ignorant foreign migrant workers, and disregarding their human rights and lives, finally they were led astray. Other reasons include: the decision to escape due to peer influence, social discrimination, etc. Although these cases are few, these factors also cause an legal worker to become an illegal worker.

　　The general public has different perceptions of the education level of migration. Most people think migrant workers have the education level of high school. There are also a group of people who think migrant workers have a junior high education level. A small part of respondents think that the migrant workers are completed to university graduation. The reason for the result can be roughly divided into two different insights. First, stereotypes of society affect the general public's perception towards the migrant workers because they are affected by the internet media, and they do not know much about them, which has led to such data. Second, since work and academic achievement have relationships, the most of the respondents gave a score of three to four on a scale out of one to ten for the economic ability, which indicates Taiwanese's impression of foreign migrants is poor. As a result, the migrant workers came to Taiwan in search of a better quality of life and improved economic standards, which shows the results of the data in Figure 3.

 　　As of the year 2019, the number of migrant workers in Taiwan has reached 718,000, 457,000 are industrial migrants workers and 261,000 are social welfare migrants workers. They are jobs that Taiwanese are unwilling to do, because these jobs generally have long working hours, are exposed to dangerous environments, and are not well paid. However, the media's biased report has also caused many Taiwanese to misunderstand the migrant workers. First of all, the first and fifth charts show that the public is afraid of migrant workers. About 30% of them are in favor of reducing the number of Taiwanese job opportunities. However, the second and third charts show that more than half of the people agree that migration is indispensable for Taiwan, and the market demand is huge. The fourth chart shows that about 55% of the people think that migration has a positive impact on Taiwan. According to the sixth chart, the public's positive impact on migration is generally considered to make up for the lack of work. In fact, Taiwan’s industry or family, which need migration, cannot run smoothly if there are no migrant workers. It is affected by an aging society. In addition, the phenomenon of oligarchization has become more serious. The direct impact is Taiwan ’s labor force. These charts can show that people understand the impact of migrant workers in Taiwan cannot be ignored because they support the bottom society. But people have little contact with them and treating them disrespectfully, migrant workers have caused fear among the society. Furthermore, Figure 7 shows that more than half of the population believes that fleeing foreign workers are a potential source of crime. Figure 5 also shows that the public thinks that the negative impact of migration is second, the society is offended and uncomfortable with the word "escape", therefore divides the migrant workers into members who may cause social unrest. However, back to the beginning, the unfamiliarity with the work and the exploitation of the intermediary after they moved to Taiwan forced them to "run away" and eventually committed crimes under the people’s temptation.

According to the first chart, although most people have a little knowledge or experience of migrant-related issues, most people do not deeply understand migrant workers. As shown in Figure 1, 90% of the people have not heard of the ONE-FORTY foreign migrant school, and only about 10% have heard of it. This tells us that everyone has not yet had a certain understanding of foreign migrant workers working in Taiwan, and not familiar with related migrant civil society groups in Taiwan. We hope that through this project, we will raise national awareness of foreign migration. At the same time, in the ONE-FORTY profile we provided in the questionnaire, most people think that such an organization can really help foreign migrant workers, let more Taiwanese know the foreign migrant workers, and reduce the gap between them.

　　About 40% of the 352 respondents said that the form we designed did not completely change their impression towards the migrant workers because the survey did not provide sufficient complete information that can raise the public awareness towards this issue. Therefore, we hope that through the website we set up, we will help more people to care about and understand foreign migrant workers in Taiwan from the perspective of tolerance and empathy.

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