한국의 이민정책과 이민정책 총괄기구설치에 관한 논의와 과제

Abstract

Current immigration policy in Republic of Korea can be divided into foreigner influx policy and social integration policy combining foreigners and local citizens. Visa system improvement and toleration on dual citizenship among those policies are in progress in order to attract foreign human resources. However, such immigration control policy alone is circumscribed to attract talented foreigners into the country. In order to lure them, social environment development, which allows foreigners to live together, along with other aspects of governmental support, such as children education, social welfare, and tax benefit is more important. For immigrant workers, who are technical posts of production, they have been contributing to produce industrial manpower, by working in labor section most Koreans avoid getting into. On the other hand, the control cultivation to prevent illegal immigration along with accurate analysis on proper demand of manpower would have to be preceded due to the fact that an indiscreet influx of foreign simple technical posts of production could increase social cost in a long run. In light of social integration policy, multicultural policy on immigrants is blamed for being in progress competitively overlapping among the branches of government. Enactment of fundamental law systematically integrating diffuse individual laws and establishing further individual law for immigration policy need to be considered in order to coordinate the interministerially overlapping elements and to establish interface system. Moreover, encouraging conducting more efficient immigration policy, by expanding and reorganizing foreigner immigration bureau to ‘immigration⋅multicultural office(an assumed title)’ could be under consideration. Establishing the conception of immigration policy and medium and long term policy including new organization considering immigrants’ percentage of the current population, by integrating ‘immigration policy committee in Korea(committee person Prime Minister)’, ‘foreign human resources policy committee(committee person Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office)’, and ‘multicultural family policy committee(committee person Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office)’, which are currently divided as individual committees under the Prime Minister in order to control appropriate influx of foreign professionals and technical posts of production,illegal immigrants, and social integration of marriagebased immigrants need to be seriously considered as a monitoring committee taking a role as a control tower for immigration policy.