Marriage Migration Policy in South Korea: Social Investment beyond the Nation State

Kim, Gyuchan; Kilkey, Majella

doi:10.1111/imig.12350

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“…Marriage migration has also been actively encouraged by the state, most notably since the mid-2000s (Kim and Kilkey, 2018: 26). By 2012, there were almost 150,000 marriage migrants in South Korea, constituting about 8% of all migrants at the time (Cho, 2018: 102).…”

Section: Overview Of Immigration In South Koreamentioning

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Who should be admitted? Conjoint analysis of South Korean attitudes toward immigrants

Denney

Green

2020

Ethnicities

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South Korea is slowly but steadily becoming a country of immigrants. In 1998, there were barely 300,000 foreign residents in South Korea. As of 2018, there were more than 2.3 million. The immigrant population has yet to reach 5% of the total population, but it is predicted to rise significantly in the years to come. Despite the increase in newcomers, it is not well understood who native South Koreans prefer as immigrants and why. Are immigrant attitudes motivated by co-ethnic solidarity, or are they primarily based on economic and sociotropic concerns? To isolate attitudes on these crucial questions, this research uses a conjoint experiment that simultaneously tests the influence of seven immigrant attributes in generating support for admission. Our results show that broad sociotropic concerns largely drive attitudes towards immigrants in South Korea, but an immigrant’s origin also matters. Prospective newcomers from culturally similar and higher-status countries who can speak Korean and have clear plans to work are most preferred. The research findings will be relevant to the comparative study of immigration attitudes, as well as to researchers interested in the specifics of the South Korean case.

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Section: Overview Of Immigration In South Koreamentioning

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Who should be admitted? Conjoint analysis of South Korean attitudes toward immigrants

Denney

Green

2020

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“…The influx of marriage migrants from developing countries to South Korea has increased since 2005, as the Korean government promotes multicultural families as a means to secure the reproductive capacity of the nation [46]. Moreover, another reason for the growth of marriage migrants is the increasing demands for female marriage migrants by men in agricultural areas having difficulties in finding a partner.…”

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Spatial Variations in Fertility of South Korea: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach

Jung

Choi

et al. 2019

IJGI

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South Korea has witnessed a remarkable decline in birth rates in the last few decades. Although there has been a large volume of literature exploring the determinants of low fertility in South Korea, studies on spatial variations in fertility are scarce. This study compares the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models to investigate the potential role of the spatially heterogeneous response of the total fertility rate (TFR) to sociodemographic factors. The study finds that the relationships between sociodemographic factors and TFRs in South Korea vary across 252 sub-administrative areas in terms of both magnitude and direction. This study therefore demonstrates the value of using spatial analysis for providing evidence-based local-population policy options in pursuit of a fertility rebound in South Korea.

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“…In addition, foreign citizen meetings proposed 'the multicultural coexistence policy' to the central government, which was implemented in 2006, expanding the multiculturalism as a grassroots initiative leading to the active participation of ordinary citizens with the localized programs at the local and municipal level. On the other hand, 'the multicultural family policy' led by the central government in Korea attempts to assist mainly marriage migrants in adjusting to Korean society as social investment and fostering understanding between Koreans and foreigners (Kim & Kilkey 2018;Kang 2017, 208). In fact, 40.9% of marriage migrants in Korea have acquired Korean nationality in 2015 (Chung et al 2016).…”

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Exclusionary Labor and Partially Inclusionary Marriage Immigration Incorporation: The Cases of Japan and Korea

Choi¹

2018

korea Observer - inst n.a stud

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Globalization has brought about significant human mobility, along with developments in IT and transportation since the early 1990s, the case of East Asia is no exception. While a huge number of workers in developing countries have been migrating to work abroad, a growing number of women have been migrating, specifically seeking to marry men in East Asia. This paper aims to elucidate which migration theories illustrate labor and/or marriage migration and incorporation in East Asia, particularly in the cases of Japan and Korea, while also examining their overall migration and incorporation patterns. In turn it investigates which factors significantly and differentially affect each type of migration at multiple levels: the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. Labor migrants are usually excluded from incorporation in their host countries, especially even the case of ethnic Korean from the former Soviet Union countries, Koryŏins, as labor migrants have been excluded in such integration with the reality of the forgotten and disconnected history. On the other hand, marriage migrants have been occasionally included in such integration. Although there has been a significant transition in the migration system theory of labor migration, there is still room to develop the better and more supportive systems. At present taking into consideration the multi-level structures, the migration network theory seems better in explaining marriage migration into the host countries of East Asia. Overall, the differentiated migratory incorporation theory which I suggest could best account for the cases in Japan and Korea when we consider international migration and the extent of social integration. So as to systematically manage labor migration problems and address the problems of commercialized 320 Young-Jin Choi matchmaking business, it requires sharing ideas with grassroots organizations and making concerted efforts to implement anti-discrimination laws and develop policies between the local governments in Japan and Korea. At the same time, education and media can be utilized strategically to enhance the attitudes toward international migrants.

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Marriage Migration Policy in South Korea: Social Investment beyond the Nation State

Cited by 27 publications

References 57 publications

Who should be admitted? Conjoint analysis of South Korean attitudes toward immigrants

Who should be admitted? Conjoint analysis of South Korean attitudes toward immigrants

Spatial Variations in Fertility of South Korea: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach

Exclusionary Labor and Partially Inclusionary Marriage Immigration Incorporation: The Cases of Japan and Korea

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