재중조선인들의 국적인정과 인구상황에 관한 소고

When we look back through history of Chinese Nationality Law, the unwritten nationality law has been implemented twice. The first unwritten nationality law was implemented with the content of naturalization policy, which are, “hair cutting”, “clothes changing” for Korean immigrants in response to Czarist Russia’s aggression in the late Qing Dynasty by Qing government. The second unwritten nationality law was implemented with the content of nationality policy for Korean immigrants and North Korean citizens in the Shanhaiguan area since October 1, 1949. With the implementation of the second unwritten nationality law in Chinese history, until the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Korean immigrants who immigrated to the south of Shanhaiguan and Korean citizens who immigrated to China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to 1968 were classified as “Koreans in China” and formed “Korean society in China”. Koreans in China mainly live in Northeast Region in China. Since the end of the last century, the number of Koreans in China has been gradually decreasing, and by the end of this century, the population is facing an aging and population crisis. Nevertheless, so far, the research on the Koreans in America and Russia, especially Koreans in Japan, has drawn attention. However, the academic research on Koreans in China has not been developed. In conclusion, North Korea’ s overseas citizens, who are Koreans in China, are also South Korea’s overseas citizens in accordance with the Doctrine of Territorial Sovereignty under the South Korean Constitutional Law on the perspective of national unity. Therefore, the research on the nationality and demographic situation of Koreans in China, which is still a research gap, has become a research subject that is as important as the nationality research on the Koreans in Japan, Korean in the United States and the Koreans in Russia.