Taiwanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area

Subsequent waves of immigrants increasingly comprised Han Taiwanese whose ancestors had resided in Taiwan prior to 1949.

The flow of Taiwanese immigration to the United States began to decrease in the early 1980s due to improving economic and political conditions in Taiwan.

[1] Taiwanese immigration in the Bay Area picked up in the 1990s, especially as a result of the tech boom in Silicon Valley.

The Taiwan Innovation Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) was established in 2016 in Silicon Valley to support Taiwanese startups in the Bay Area.

Several startups maintain transnational business in Taiwan and the United States, with many vying to compete in the global technology market.

Home to several elite universities, such as Stanford and Berkeley, the Bay Area is also attractive to students from Taiwan.