Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism
Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism: A Solidarity Success Story from South Korea
BY
JOON K. KIM
Department of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University, USA
United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
About the Author
Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
Table 1.1. | Chronology of NGO Activism. |
Table 2.1. | Migrant Populations and Union Density in Select European Union Countries. |
Table 2.2. | A Brief History of KCTU Solidarity Projects with Migrant Workers, 19942005. |
Table 3.1. | Scope and Types of Sex Industry in Korea, 2002. |
Table 3.2. | E-6 Entertainment Visas by Select Countries and Sex, 20062017. |
Table 3.3. | F6 Marriage Migrants Visas by Select Countries and Sex, 20112017. |
Table 3.4. | Interethnic Marriages from Select Countries, 20002018. |
Table 3.5. | Marriages and Interethnic Marriages in Korea, 20082018. |
Fig 3.1. | Key Stakeholders of Marriage Migrants and International Sex Workers. |
Table 4.1. | Overseas Koreans by Country, Select Years. |
Table 4.2. | Major Laws Impacting Korean-Heritage Migrants in Korea. |
Table 4.3. | North Korean Defectors Resident in South Korea. |
Table 4.4. | Korean-Heritage Residents in Korea by Visa Types, 20062018. |
Table 4.5. | Korean-Heritage Immigrants Resident in Korea. |
Table 4.6. | Korean Nationality Recovery, Naturalization, Renunciation, and Loss. |
Table 5.1. | Internet Search Results: Articles with the Word Multi-culture in the Heading. |
Table 5.2. | Constructing Vulnerabilities Through the Use of the Word Damunhwa in an Internet Search Engine. |
Table 6.1. | Migrant Advocacy Organizations. |
Table 6.2. | Principles, Modes, and Orders of Multiculturalism. |
Chart 6.1. | Domains of Multicultural Praxis. |
List of Abbreviations
Table 1.1. | Chronology of NGO Activism. |
CCEJ | Citizens Coalition for Economic Justice |
CCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
CEDAW | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
CERD | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
CESCR | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
CSO | Civil Society Organizations |
EPS | Employment Permit System |
ETU-MWD | Equality Trade Union Migrant Worker Division of Seoul-Kyeongin-Inchon-Area |
GongGam | Human Rights Law Foundation (translated from Korean) |
ILO | International Labor Organization |
IOM | International Organization for Migration |
IWRAW | International Womens Rights Action Watch |
JCMK | Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea |
KCTU | Korean Confederation of Trade Unions |
KIC | Korea Institute of Criminology |
KIS | Korea Immigration Service |
Korea | Republic of Korea or South Korea |
KWAU | Korea Womens Associations United |
MFA | Migrant Forum in Asia |
MINBYUN | Lawyers for a Democratic Society (translated from Korean) |
MTU | Migrant Trade Union (Korea) |
MWSH | Migrant Worker Struggle Headquarter for Achieving Complete Labor Rights and Actualizing Freedom of Movement and Employment |
NGO | Nongovernment Organizations |
NOW | National Organization for Women |
PSPD | Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy |
UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
UNHR | United Nations Commission on Human Rights |
UNIFEM | United Nations Development Fund for Women (translated from French) |
About the Author
Joon K. Kim is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. Born in Seoul and educated in New York and California, he acquired an academic interest in international migration and multiculturalism in the United States, Korea, and Latin American countries. As a Fellow of the Fulbright Fellowship and the Korea Foundation Field Research, his research focuses on the political economy of immigrant labor, Koreas migrant advocacy and civil society activism, the politics of race via immigration and citizenship, and multicultural education. His strength as a comparative and interdisciplinary scholar is demonstrated by publications in diverse fields and disciplines, including ethnic studies, sociology, history, education, and population studies. His focus on international and comparative labor migrations sprang from his earlier work, The Political Economy of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942-1964 (