결혼이주관련 법제의 문제점과 개선방안에 대한 일고찰 - 결혼이주여성의 인권의 관점에서 -

This paper aims to examine marriage migration-related laws and to find what to berevised improve the human rights of marriage immigrant women. transnational marriageshave been rapidly increasing in Korea since 2000. The large portion of whole cases oftransnational marriage are international marriages of foreign women and Korean men. Thisresearch shows the existing laws relating marriage migration are not enough to supplementthe unequal relationship between foreign women and Korean men in the ‘multi-culturalfamily’ and to protect the human rights of marriage immigrant women. This research examines Nationality Act, Basic Act on the Treatment of Foreigners inKorea(2007), Multi-cultural Family Support Act(2008), The local government’s Ordinanceson ‘rural bachelors’ and multi-cultural family, Act on the Regulation of Marriage BrokerageAgencies(2007), and other laws relating the human rights of marriage immigrant women inKorea. Nationality Act still requires at least 2 years married life & residence in Korea andat least 3 years marriages & one year’s residence in Korea even if it already revised foreasier acquisition of nationality by marriage in 2004. Therefore, Nationality Act need to berevised to abolish this requirements and to stabilize the legal position of marriageimmigrant women. Basic Act on the Treatment of Foreigners in Korea, Multi-culturalFamily Support Act are limited since these are adopted for enrolled immigrant women whohas the right to stay. Victims of family violence, the abandoned and divorced marriageimmigrant women are excluded from the protection of these laws. Act on the Regulation ofMarriage Brokerage Agencies is also not effective to correct problems of brokering process. Substantial legal relief services have to provided to implement this law for marriage immigrant women. Generally, Provision of discrimination against immigrants should bestrengthened not only in the constitutional law and other subordinate laws. Korean government proclaimed multi-culture policy and enacted multi-cultural family lawand other marriage migration-related provisions to integrate marriage immigrant women inKorea. State policy of marriage immigrants is totally different from immigrant workers. The government gives legal rights to marriage immigrant women as a wife of a Koreannational or a mother of Korean national while it excludes immigrant workers from theprotection of laws. But the state policy on marriage immigrant women is far from thisovert purpose of legislation since the real policy pursues assimilation and adaptation ofmarriage immigrant women. In short, marriage migration-related laws have to bereconstructed to change legal position of marriage immigrants the spouse of Koreannational or mother of Korean national into a human being and legal subject of her/himself.