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| Title: | Exclusion or Inclusion: National Differential Regulations of Migrant Workers’ Employment, Social Protection, and Migration Policies on Im/Mobilities in East Asia—Examples of South Korea and Taiwan |
| Authors: | 王明聖
Wang, Ming Sheng
Kwak, Yoon Kyung |
| Contributors: | 社工所 |
| Keywords: | blue-collar workers;labor migration;employment policies;precarity;public health |
| Date: | 2022-12 |
| Issue Date: | 2023-01-13 15:55:23 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | Low fertility rates and an aging society, growing long-term care needs, and workforce shortages in professional, industrial, and care sectors are emerging issues in South Korea and Taiwan. Both governments have pursued economic/industrial growth as productive welfare capitalism and enacted preferred selective migration policies to recruit white-collar migrant workers (MWs) as mobile elites, but they have also adopted regulations and limitations on blue-collar MWs through unfree labor relations, precarious employment, and temporary legal status to provide supplemental labor. In order to demonstrate how multiple policy regulations from a national level affect MWs’ precarity of labor in their receiving countries, which in turn affect MWs’ im/mobilities, this article presents the growing trends of transnational MWs, regardless of them being high- or low-skilled MWs, and it evaluates four dimensions of labor migration policies—MWs’ working and employment conditions, social protection, union rights and political participation, and access to permanent residency in both countries. We found that the rights and working conditions of low-skilled MWs in Korea and Taiwan are improving slowly, but still lag behind those of high-skilled MWs which also affects their public health and well-being. The significant difference identified here is that MWs in Taiwan can organize labor unions, which is strictly prohibited in Korea; pension protection also differs between the nations. Additionally, an application for permanent residency is easier for high-skilled migrant workers compared with low-skilled MWs and both the Korean and Taiwanese immigration policies differentiate the entry and resident status for low-skilled and professional MWs from dissimilar class backgrounds. Policy recommendations for both countries are also discussed. |
| Relation: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.19, No.23, 16270 |
| Data Type: | article |
| DOI 連結: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316270 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph192316270 |
| Appears in Collections: | [社會工作研究所] 期刊論文
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