국내 동포 밀집거주지역의 지방자치단체 외국인주민정책 현황과 개선 방안

Abstract

Due to the Korean government's continual implementation for the easy returns of Overseas Korean, the returns of Overseas Koreans have increased rapidly. These returnees continued to settle, with high residential density, in specific local communities with low housing costs and convenient transportation. Local community of Daerim-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, located in southern area of Seoul, is the largest residential area of Korean returnees in Korean. Thus, the community is facing the task of social integration of Korean returnees, which is not easy for the municipal government to handle. Despite the urgent policy needs to respond appropriately to the several social integration problems such as uprising crimes, educational adaption of youngsters, neighbor hates, and so on, in the densely populated areas of returnees, the policy efforts of Korean central government, especially the Ministry of Justice's immigration policy and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's multicultural family policy, are not effectively linked to the local government's policy to solve the problems. Furthermore, the local policy is also not planned to cope with the social integration problems of returnees due to lack of policy responsiveness, proper policy linkage with the central government, etc. This article examines the major social integration tasks of Korean returnees living as “foreign residents” of the local community, and seeks measures for policy improvement at the local government level by analyzing the current policy implementation system between the central government and local municipal government.