本研究旨在探究變遷中的阿美族母系社會體系，如何影響都市原住民女性的家庭照顧樣態。對於都市原住民的家庭而言，原住民族女性在都市中的經濟、文化、社會等不利條件，也影響著其於家庭中之性別角色分工及家庭照顧工作，然阿美族母系社會文化在變遷下的當代社會中逐漸消逝，文化之變遷也牽動著阿美族女性家庭照顧者之照顧樣態。
本研究採取混合研究方法，透過問卷調查之方式，蒐集居住於花東新村都市部落之阿美族對於母系社會之現況與看法，探討母系社會之變遷與影響，再以問卷蒐集到之資訊為背景，建立合適之訪談大綱，並利用質性研究之方法與都市原住民女性家庭照顧者進行面對面的訪談，了解她們身為家庭中照顧者之照顧歷程與困境，結合質性研究與量化研究之優點。
本研究以臺中市花東新村阿美族都市部落為研究場域，研究結果發現：1.母系社會之文化已逐漸消逝於漢人文化當中。2.母系社會傳統之住居法則喪失，都市原住民女性家庭照顧者缺乏母系家族的支持，照顧負擔隨之增加。3.原漢通婚比例增加，都市原住民女性面臨著文化差異、種族歧視、婆媳問題的照顧困境。4.花東新村擁有著類似原鄉部落的歸屬感，且能夠減輕都市原住民女性家庭照顧者之照顧壓力。

關鍵詞：都市原住民、阿美族、母系社會、家庭照顧者、花東新村。

This research aimed to explore the changing matriarchal social system of the Ami tribe, and how it affects family care of urban aboriginal women. For families of urban aborigines, the economic, cultural, and social disadvantages of indigenous women in the city also affect their gender roles in the family care work. However, the matrilineal society and culture of the Ami are changing in the contemporary society, and cultural changes have also impacted the care of Ami’s female family caregivers.
This study adopted a mixed research method to collect the current status and views of the matrilineal society of the Ami people living in the urban tribes of Huadong New Village through a questionnaire survey, explore the changes and influences of the matrilineal society, and use the information collected in the questionnaire as the basis for the interview outline, and use the qualitative research method to conduct face-to-face interviews with urban aboriginal female family caregivers to understand their care process and difficulties as caregivers in the family, combining the advantages of qualitative and quantitative research.
This research used the urban tribe of the Ami ethnic group in Hua-dong Village, Taichung City as the research field. The results of the research found: 1. The culture of matriarchal society has gradually disappeared from the Han culture. 2. The traditional residence rules of matrilineal society are lost, and the urban aboriginal female family caregivers lack the support of matrilineal families, and the burden of care increases. 3. The proportion of intermarriage between the original Han and the Han Dynasty has increased, and urban aboriginal women are faced with cultural differences, racial discrimination, and mother-in-law issues. 4. Hua-dong Village has a sense of belonging similar to that of the original tribe, and can alleviate the care pressure of urban aboriginal female family caregivers.

Keywords: urban aborigines, the Amis, matriarchal tradition, family caregivers, Hua-dong Village.