TAIWAN MIGRATION MODEL EXPLAINED TO OUR TAIWANESE PARTNERS The "Out of Taiwan" model, proposed by archaeologist Peter Bellwood, suggests that the Philippines was populated by Austronesian-speaking people who migrated from Taiwan. Austronesian people (or Austronesian-speaking people) are a group of people across Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Pacific who speak Austronesian languages. These people’s ancestors, who came from continental Asia around 10,000–6,000 BC, settled in Taiwan during the