• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2009

Purpose: In Korea, the number of migrant workers is increasing. However, migrant workers have low job satisfaction due to poor working environment, and insufficient social support. This study aimed to investigate the role of social support for job satisfaction of migrant workers. Method: We have analyzed the survey data of 397 migrant workers collected from free clinic for migrant workers located in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do. Result: When the migrant workers received monetary and emotional supports from supervisors and colleagues, their job satisfaction turned out to be significantly high. The factors that influence job satisfaction of migrant workers are as follows: involvement in manufacturing industry, over 9 hours of daily sleep, monetary and emotional support from supervisors. Their job satisfaction strongly influenced by these factors. Conclusion: Social support will increase job satisfaction of migrant workers and it will subsequently decrease job turnover rate and increase productivity as well as quality of life.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.203-224
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• 2022

This study aims to examine the educational needs of migrant farm workers and farmers in Korea. For developing survey instruments, content analysis of migrant workers & employer training programs, in-depth interviews with farmers and expert reviews had been conducted. Therefore, eight parts and twenty nine educational contents for migrant workers, five parts and twenty educational contents for farmers have been constructed. For data analysis, Borich analysis and The Locus for Focus Model were hired to analyze the educational needs assessment. Results showed that migrant workers' educational priorities were 'basic korean for farming, working attitude in farming, safety guidelines and first aid skills for rural life, safe use of pesticides and protective equipment, driving skills, safe use of agricultural machinery, operation & maintenance of agricultural machinery, pest control by crop', and for the farmers' were 'communication with migrant workers, trouble controls with employment, farming guidance, industrial accident cases and countermeasures, preventing disease and promoting mental health of migrant workers'.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.404-413
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to construct and verify a path model for the influencing factors on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers in Korea. Methods: Participants were 193 Vietnamese migrant workers recruited from Foreign Workers Support Centers. Data were collected by a self-administered survey with copies of a Questionnaire written in Vietnamese. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients and path analysis using SPSS/WIN 23.0 and Amos 20.0 program. Results: Length of residence, homeland friends' and Korean colleagues'supports, and acculturation have been found to have significant direct effects on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers. Meanwhile, Length of residence, homeland friends', Korean colleagues', and their families' supports showed indirect effects on their occupational stress. What had the greatest direct effect on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers was Korean colleagues' support. Conclusion: For reducing occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers, it is necessary to strengthen their Korean colleagues' supports in work places. In addition, community organizations should take strategies to enhance homeland friends' supports and to improve acculturation of Vietnamese migrant workers.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2023

With the restriction of foreigners' entry into Korea due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fishery industry faced significant challenges in supplying migrant workers. In response to this, there is growing interest in methods that could facilitate the stable employment of migrant workers. This paper investigates whether the current system used for the employment of migrant workers in the fishery industry, which is highly dependent on them, adequately performs its function of providing a stable and skilled workforce amid the intensified labor shortage resulting from decreasing numbers of households with employment in the fishery and the aging Korean fishermen. To this end, past studies and government documents pertaining to the current system were analyzed, and a survey targeting the owners of offshore fishing boats that employ migrant workers was conducted. A total of 147 owners of fishing boats responded to the survey, and the data of 499 migrant workers employed by them were used for the analysis. The analysis indicated that the migrant fishermen had difficulty in acquiring minimum scores for the change of visa status according to the criteria for the Skilled Worker Points System. Furthermore, distinct differences were found between the characteristics and working conditions of migrant workers employed through the Employment Permit System (EPS) and the Foreign Seamen System. Based on this result, this paper suggests the reorganization of the skilled migrant worker system in the fishery industry and the expansion of the regional specialized visa pilot project.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.13-26
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• 2012

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between resilience of migrant workers and their mental health for improving their quality of life and adaptation in Korean society. Methods: Data were collected from March 21 to May 7, 2011. The participants included 488 migrant workers who lived in Busan Metropolitan City or Gyoungnam province. Results: First, heavy working burdens and lack of rests, low wages, poor living environments, low economic status & deficiency of living necessities, hard physical labors, and conflicts with Korean workers had negative effects on mental health. Second, high perceived stress caused by usual 'living difficulties', high 'cutural shock', high feeling of 'social isolation', and high discomfort from 'lack of Korean language proficiency' gave negative effects on migrant worker's mental health. Third, the most important factor on the mental health was the 'cultural shock' among stressors. Even though many stressors existed among migrant workers, these negative effects on mental health were lessened by their high resilience level. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of migrant workers in Busan, Korea. To improve their mental health, social support including financial supports and educational programs that foster resilience needed.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.269-277
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• 2013

Purpose: The purposes of the study were to identify level of health literacy and factors influencing health literacy of migrant workers. Methods: Data were collected using a cross sectional correlational design. Participants were 128 migrant workers in Korea. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, Scheff$\acute{e}$ test, and hierarchical multiple regression with the SPSS 18.0 program. Results: The health literacy level of migrant worker was low and they had difficulty in understanding patient education materials and medical forms. Factors influencing health literacy were residential areas (city or rural), education level, length of stay in Korea, and ability to understand spoken Korean. Regression model accounted for 14.2% of the variance in health literacy. Conclusion: Lower levels of health literacy make it difficult for migrant works to visit medical facilities and perform health behaviors appropriately. Therefore, diverse strategies should be developed by nurses to enhance the health literacy level of migrant workers.

• 산업노동연구
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.73-107
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 안산지역에서 노동 및 일상생활을 영위하고 있는 이주노동자들의 사회적 관계의 특성을 체류자격 및 법적 지위를 제한하는 상황과의 상호연관 속에서 살펴보는 것이다. 이를 위해, 안산지역에 거주하는 이주노동자들을 대상으로 노동공간인 작업장과 생활공간인 지역사회를 방문하여 설문조사 및 면접 조사를 실시하였다. 안산지역 이주노동자의 사회적 관계는 특정 공간 및 에스닉 커뮤니티에 집중되어 있는 한편, 직장에 따라 유동적이고 일시적인 고용관계 의존적 형태를 보인다. 이를 이 글에서는 '제한된 지역-사회'관계로 규정하였다. 그 특징은 첫째, 직장생활 관계는 동료를 중심으로 형성되어 있다. 상사나 노동조합과 같이 지위에서 구별되는 관계보다는 같은 동료와 고민을 나누거나 개인적인 정보를 교환하는 것을 선호하는 경향이다. 둘째, 거주지 사회 관계에서는 민족적 동질성을 가진 집단, 즉 동포들은 함께 거주하고 있는 가족 및 친족과 유대관계를 형성하는 경우가 많은 반면, 비동포 집단은 지역사회 단체와 상호부조적 관계를 형성하는 경우가 많다. 마지막으로, 체류기간이 안정되었다고 해서 사회관계 역시 안정적이고 다양한 '정주적' 성격을 보일 것이라는 기대는 나타나지 않았다. 온라인(SNS 등)을 통한 연결이 가능해짐으로써, '트랜스내셔널'한 친족적 유대가 현지의 탈지역적 지역-사회관계를 구성하고 있었다.

• 수완나부미
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.89-110
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• 2020

Singapore and Thailand have been rapidly ageing. There has been a growing demand for eldercarers in the home-setting for which migrant domestic workers have filled the role. This paper examines the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Consensus governing women migrant workers entering the eldercare sector. It argues that because the ASEAN Consensus is not legally binding, it only serves to reinforce the sovereignty of states in the treatment of migrant workers instead of member states acting in unison to ensure labour protections for this group; as a result, Singapore and Thailand do not feel the need to step up protections for this group of workers according to national labor laws and hence low-skilled women migrant workers entering the eldercare sector continue to be vulnerable to labour abuses. Thus as with globalization, the ASEAN Economic Community manifests the paradox of borders: that while states are economically interconnected and interdependent, they are simultaneously disconnected and independent from each other.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.261-262
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• 2022

Globally, it is estimated that the number of people living outside of their country of origin reached 281 million in 2020. The primary drive of those migrants when migrating voluntarily is work to increase their income and provide for their families left behind in their home countries. Those who migrate immediately seek means of income to sustain themselves through a perilous process as currently evidenced in the war in Ukraine and not too long ago in Syria and Venezuela. Unfortunately, migrant workers are globally known to predominantly be working in "4-D jobs"- dirty, dangerous, and difficult and discriminatory; the fourth D was recently added to acknowledge the discriminatory aspect and other social determinants of health migrant workers face in their host country while exposed to precarious work. Consequently, migrant workers are at considerable risk of work-related illnesses and injury but their health needs are critically overlooked in research and policy. Recognizing the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment", we cannot consider any human life - thus, the life of migrant workers - as dispensable through a structural discriminatory process that undervalues their occupational safety and health, livelihood and the contribution these workers bring to their host countries. This was seen during the preparation for the upcoming world cup in Qatar where migrant workers were exposed to a multiplicity of serious hazards including deadly heat hazards.

• 산업진흥연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2021

인구구조의 변화로 저출산·고령화 문제는 심각한 생산가능 인구감소로 이어져 외국인력 도입의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 본 연구는 인구구조 변화가 본격적으로 시작되는 저출산고령화 시대에 생산가능 인구를 확충하기 위해서는 외국인력의 도입이 가장 유효하다고 보며, 이를 위해 이주노동자 도입에 대한 법제도적인 개선방안을 마련하고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 첫째, 이주노동자 법제도의 통일과 정비가 이루어져야 한다. 「출입국관리법」과 「노동법」이 협조관계를 구축할 수 있도록 관리기관의 신설이나 일원화가 필요하다. 둘째, 「출입국관리법」을 개정하여 이주노동자들이 취업할 수 있는 길이 용이해져야 한다. 고용허가제와 국적취득에 대한 긍정적 검토가 필요하다. 셋째, 이주노동자에 대한 형평성 및 차별이 없어야 한다. 상호호혜의 원칙하에서 사용자와 이주노동자가 평등하게 차별 받지 않도록 해야 한다. 넷째, 이주노동자의 법제도에서 사회보험제도를 추가하여야 한다. 따라서 4대 사회보험을 비롯한 각종 보험제도에서 이주노동자들이 차별 받지 않도록 법제도의 정비가 이루어져야 한다. 결론적으로 인구구조의 변화로 저출산·고령화 문제는 심각한 사회문제화되어 있으며, 이로 인한 생산가능인구의 감소는 우려할 만한 수준에 도달해 있다. 이주노동자의 취업 및 근무 환경의 중요성은 높아지고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 관련 법제도적 문제점은 상존해 있으며, 이주노동자에 대한 법제도적 개선방안이 필요하다.