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South Korea’s Policy for Low-skilled Migrant Workers: Tensions between Functional Imperatives of the State and Their Impact on Policy Coherence

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국제학연구소 (The Keimyung Institute for International Studies)|2023.12|Journal of International and Area Studies|제30권 제2호|pp. 93-120|DOI 10.23071/jias.2023.30.2.93

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South Koreastate legitimacylow-skilled migrant workersfunctional imperativespolicy incoherence
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This article examines key tensions manifested in South Korea’s policy for low-skilled migrant workers since the institutionalization of the Employment Permit System in 2003, by utilizing Boswell’s (2007) theory that suggests security, accumulation, institutional legitimacy and fairness as key functional imperatives of the state embedded in migration policy. By connecting the four imperatives with the inherent principles of Korea’s labor migration regime, this article finds that the tensions between the often-incompatible functional imperatives of the state substantiated in Korea’s migration policy for low-skilled migrant workers during the period of 2003-2019 have produced and exacerbated policy incoherence. This showcases that it has become increasingly more difficult for the Korean government to form a unitary message on its labor migration policy.

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This article examines key tensions manifested in South Korea’s policy for low-skilled migrant workers since the institutionalization of the Employment Permit System in 2003, by utilizing Boswell’s (2007) theory that suggests security, accumulation, institutional legitimacy and fairness as key functional imperatives of the state embedded in migration policy. By connecting the four imperatives with the inherent principles of Korea’s labor migration regime, this article finds that the tensions between the often-incompatible functional imperatives of the state substantiated in Korea’s migration policy for low-skilled migrant workers during the period of 2003-2019 have produced and exacerbated policy incoherence. This showcases that it has become increasingly more difficult for the Korean government to form a unitary message on its labor migration policy.

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