일본의 외국인노동자 문제에 따른 사회통합 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to observe how Japanese government and society cope with foreign workers' problems and how social integration is carried out on the process. The theme of this study is important because Korean society, nowadays, has the similar problems according to internationalization. For the purpose, four types of foreign workers for social integration in Japan has been observed ; separationism, cosmopolitanism, assimilationism, multiculturalism. First, the analysis of present condition of foreign workers as the basic things of this study has been examined. Second, the cause of the foreign workers' problems has been analysed through foreign worker's policy of Japanese government. Third, the seriousness of violation of human rights has been observed through the condition of the foreign workers in Japan. Last but not least, the efforts of Japanese Society and the policy of Japanese Government for the social integration of foreign workers has been studied. Furthermore, what is the obstacles of integration and how to solve these obstacles have been explored. The findings of this study are the following. First the foreign workers are regarded as an inferior one compared to the Japanese. Second, in the late 1980s, Japanese tried to treat equally the foreign workers as Japanese in order to avoid political and economic conflict with other countries. However, they didn't admit foreign workers as a member of Japanese society. Therefore, the type of cosmopolitanism was occurred in this period. Third, assimilationism was occurred when South American Japanese flow into Japan, according to amendment of emigration and immigration law. Fourth, centering around South American Japanese ,?multiculturalism which Japanese admit them as a member of regional society was occurred. As a result, the strategy of social integration of Japan has been changed from separationism, cosmopolitanism, assimilationism to multiculturalism in sequence. The main obstacles of integration stems from the Japanese government's policy toward the foreign workers and the violation of human rights by the Japanese companies. Therefore, Japanese government should change its basic policy to the direction to cope with the settlement of foreign workers and social integration of multiculturalism.