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Special Meeting

special meeting Lee Sang-jae (Education and Public Relations Team Leader) The woman and the man met again in the visiting room of the foreigner detention center after 5 days. The man raises his right hand towards her face. Instead of the woman’s face that smoked sweet like a ripe mango, a hard transparent plastic wall blocks her […]

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Completing the ‘Multicultural Instructor Training Course’

Completing the ‘Multicultural Instructor Training Course’ Yamada Takako Our mothers of marriage immigrants completed the ‘Multicultural Instructor Training Course’ through the ‘Completion Presentation’ on August 24th. Although we only met once a week, to the mothers of marriage immigrants I met there, I felt like a classmate I had learned in the same class and I

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The Obama Administration and Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy

The Obama Administration and Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy Hyunmo Choi (Director of the Center for Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in Korea) On November 4, the first black president of the United States was elected. Until the last minute of the election, negative images of Obama were intentionally circulated, such as acquaintance with terrorists, black-and-white conflict,

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Tuhan’s Story

Tuhan’s story Lee Sang-jae (Head of Education and Public Relations Team, Korea Migrant Workers Human Rights Center) One Sunday afternoon last spring, Thu Han, a Vietnamese, came to the center with an open face as if he had been drinking since morning. Touhan’s voice is high, perhaps because of his drunken luck. Holding the pay envelope in

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Evaluation and Problems of the Framework Act On the Treatment of Foreigners in Korea

Evaluation and Problems of the Framework Act on the Treatment of Foreigners in Korea Refers to the system for foreigners residing in Korea Part 1 Evaluation and Problems of the Framework Act on the Treatment of Foreigners in Korea Ki-don Kim (Head of Counseling Team, Center for Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in Korea) The Framework

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Evaluation and Problems of the Employment Permit System

Evaluation and Problems of the Employment Permit System Part 2 Evaluation and Problems of the Employment Permit System Ki-don Kim (Head of Counseling Team, Center for Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in Korea) ▶ Background of introduction The overseas-invested corporation trainee system (1991) and the industrial technology trainee system (1993), introduced in the late 1980s due to the

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