(서론) According to the estimate by the International Organization for Migration, the number of people who work or live in other countries reaches 150 million. Among those 50-60 millions are migrant workers (IOM, 2000). It is noteworthy that even th...
(서론) According to the estimate by the International Organization for Migration, the number of people who work or live in other countries reaches 150 million. Among those 50-60 millions are migrant workers (IOM, 2000). It is noteworthy that even though the number of migrant workers takes small portion of 2.6 billion of the world labor force, the overall scale is tremendous. One more important fact is that migrant workers exist in the NIEs ― newly industrialzed economies ― such as Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Malaysia, and the developing countries such as Thailand and Pakistan, nevertheless in the industrially developed countries such as US, Japan, Germany, and France. Nowadays people in every nation and society live along with foreign migrant workers, not just living with their own people.