방문조사를 통해서 본 보호외국인의 실태 및 개선방안

This thesis is based on the National Human Rights Commission of Korea’s annual activities, above all, of which the article 24 of the Agency’s Founding Act mandates its visiting and investigating the Immigration Removal Centers. The thesis compiles the legal status of detainees in the Immigration Detention Centers, focused on the Immigration Management Act, and points out the essential human rights for detainees guaranteed by the law are highly vulnerable to infringements, especially in case of detention for immigration removal, and finally highlights the controversial detention for an indefinite period. In addition, having investigated the infrastructure of Hwa-Sung, Chong-Ju, and Yeo-Su Immigration Detention Center, it also provides analysis regarding the heavy steel bars across the housing cell in which detainees are staying, detainees’ movement and their private space within the Detention Centers, privacy issues arising when receiving visitors and using toilets, and comprehensively reviewed the strengthened screening system and alternatives to the current Immigration Detention Centers, in the perspective of viewing detainees as human rights vulnerable population. Also, the detainees’ rights to receiving visitors and communicating with society, including by using internet, and access to medical services are analyzed, together with the relevance of detention period applicants for refugee status are facing and the environmental condition they are positioned at Immigration Removal space at the Airport-Harbor. Finally, the thesis evaluated the significance, and impact the National Human Rights Commission of Korea’s recommendations can have in the society.