North Korean Refugees in South Korea :Change and Challenge in Settlement Support Policy

IF 0.1 Q4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Korean Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2018-04-30 DOI:10.14731/kjis.2018.04.16.1.77
Gyubin Choi
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The aim of this article is to examine the structural conditions that affect the problem of North Korean refugees in South Korea. It provides a historical review of the changing perception and policy toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, and how these changes and broader inter-Korean relations have affected the identities of North Korean refugees and the way of they have been dealt with. Understanding the evolution of South Korea’s policy toward North Korea and North Korean refugees is important because the policy is the output of the perceptions of political elites of the North Korean regime itself and North Koreans refugees in South Korea, and it involves decisions regarding who they are, why and to what extent should the state offer protection to them, and how to implement such policies. These political conditions constructed by the state and system of states directly and indirectly cause many of the difficulties, confusions, and problems facing North Korean refugees. In this sense, this paper argues that the causes, consequences, and responses to North Korean refugees are a part of much broader political, as well as humanitarian, issues. The paper focuses primarily on these factors affecting South Korea’s policy toward North Korean refugees and resultant changes in the status and treatment of those refugees in the Republic of Korea, or South Korea. This paper then explores the challenges that North Korean refugees face in the process of adjusting to South Korean society.
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韩国朝鲜难民安置政策的变迁与挑战
本文的目的是研究影响韩国朝鲜难民问题的结构性条件。它提供了对朝鲜民主主义人民共和国(DPRK)或朝鲜不断变化的看法和政策的历史回顾,以及这些变化和更广泛的朝韩关系如何影响朝鲜难民的身份及其处理方式。了解韩国对朝鲜和朝鲜难民政策的演变是很重要的,因为该政策是朝鲜政权本身和韩国朝鲜难民的政治精英观念的产物,它涉及到关于他们是谁、国家为什么和在多大程度上应该向他们提供保护以及如何实施这些政策的决定。这些由国家和国家体系构建的政治条件直接或间接地造成了朝鲜难民面临的许多困难、困惑和问题。从这个意义上说,本文认为,对朝鲜难民的原因、后果和反应是更广泛的政治问题和人道主义问题的一部分。本文主要关注影响韩国对朝鲜难民政策的这些因素,以及这些难民在大韩民国或韩国的地位和待遇的变化。然后,本文探讨了朝鲜难民在适应韩国社会的过程中所面临的挑战。
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