초국가주의의 시각에서 본 재일한인의 투표권

Abstract

This paper emphasizes characteristic of voting right as human right, giving an example of Koreans in Japan, and investigates how they have been guaranteed from the governments of Korea and Japan. I want to argue that the voting right has a basic attribute prior to the nation and state in the community of Koreans in Japan even though I don’t deny that it cannot help being assured by political intention of the nation. The voting right of Koreans in Japan is an affair transcends nationalism both Korea and Japan. To the Korean permanent residents under historically special treatment, the voting right has deeper meaning of conforming their identities and social senses of belonging than political procedure as election. So we should understand the voting right as something like a human right rather than a political activity. But in the case of Korea, having serious consideration of political procedure, related laws were lately revised and they are now reluctant about improving the convenience of voting participation in the overseas Korean communities. Similarly, Japan has now negative policy to foreigner’s voting right because she has been putting emphasis on its political influence. Today, the Liberal Party’s regime is not at all debating whether to make it legal bending her neck to social opposition. She ignores the humanities of social minors limiting to the voting right under the circumstances that activities trying to overcome nationalism are suppressed by dissents. Activities of transnational coexistence risen at beginning of 2000’s is now overall shrinking in the Japanese society.