Migration, Brokerage and Recruitment

Q3 Social Sciences

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI:10.5130/pjmis.v19i1-2.7680

S. Chan

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Abstract

This research examines the unskilled labor migration using private intermediaries in South Korea. The study also reviews the Employment Permit System of South Korea in this regard. The empirical study took place in South Korea with a supplementary trip visiting the migration origin, Bangkok, Thailand. A qualitative method was used with the predominant part being a semi-structured interview with Thai undocumented workers in Daegu. This research fills the gap in the existing body of research by uncovering the process of undocumented labor migration in the discourse of culture of migration. The tolerant practice of the Thai Government towards undocumented workers has set an example to prospective Thai migrant workers who follow the undocumented path to go to Korea. The unique fuzzy attitude of some Thais led them to try their luck without a concrete plan to go to work in South Korea on a whim. The informal brokers find their role even they are excluded in the Employment Permit System of South Korea. They actively convey a positive but biased image of an easy path of undocumented labor migration as an alternative to the formal procedure.

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移民，经纪和招聘

本研究考察了韩国利用私人中介的非熟练劳动力迁移。在这方面，本研究还审查了韩国的就业许可制度。实证研究在韩国进行，并辅以对移民来源地泰国曼谷的访问。采用定性方法，主要部分是对大邱的泰国无证工人进行半结构化访谈。本研究通过在移民文化话语中揭示无证劳动力迁移的过程，填补了现有研究体系的空白。泰国政府对无证劳工的宽容做法，给那些想要走无证道路前往韩国的泰国移民工人树立了榜样。一些泰国人独特的模糊态度导致他们在没有具体计划的情况下碰碰运气，一时兴起就去韩国工作。即使被排除在韩国的就业许可制度之外，非正规经纪人也找到了自己的角色。他们积极地传达了一种积极但有偏见的形象，即无证劳工移民的简单途径是正式程序的替代方案。

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PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

CiteScore

0.50

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0.00%

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审稿时长

52 weeks

期刊介绍： PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies is a fully peer reviewed journal with two main issues per year, and is published by UTSePress. In some years there may be additional special focus issues. The journal is dedicated to publishing scholarship by practitioners of—and dissenters from—international, regional, area, migration, and ethnic studies. Portal also provides a space for cultural producers interested in the internationalization of cultures. Portal is conceived as a “multidisciplinary venture,” to use Michel Chaouli’s words. That is, Portal signifies “a place where researchers [and cultural producers] are exposed to different ways of posing questions and proffering answers, without creating out of their differing disciplinary languages a common theoretical or methodological pidgin” (2003, p. 57). Our hope is that scholars working in the humanities, social sciences, and potentially other disciplinary areas, will encounter in Portal scenarios about contemporary societies and cultures and their material and imaginative relation to processes of transnationalization, polyculturation, transmigration, globalization, and anti-globalization.