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Korean Immigration Policy Changes and the Political Liberals’ Dilemma1
Authors:Nora Hui‐Jung Kim
Abstract:Recently, Korean low‐skilled foreign labor policies have changed in contradictory ways. On the one hand, Korea seems to be moving in a “liberal” direction, because the government is according more rights to foreign workers. On the other hand, Korea seems to be moving in an “illiberal” direction, because the government is according ethnic Korean workers preferential treatment over other foreign workers. I explain this contradictory situation in terms of political liberals’ activism. Korean political liberals’ activism vis‐à‐vis migrant workers is two‐pronged: first, to afford more rights to all migrant workers and, second, to guarantee equal treatment to all ethnic Koreans. Taken separately, each move is in line with the political liberal principle of promoting nonascriptive, universalistic, and equal treatment. Taken together, these two moves are inherently contradictory – one pushes toward ethnicizing trends and the other pushes toward de‐ethnicizing trends of immigration policies. This contradiction, which I call the political liberals’ dilemma, divides political liberals and weakens their overall political leverage.
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