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Lee Young: People Looking for Shadows

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The author is an expert who, from 2003, came to understand their lives deeply through meeting with migrant workers. They have been involved in mediation and solving all kinds of problems, including working conditions, wages, forestry, and medical care. In 2023, after 203 years, did the life of unregistered migrant workers in South Korea improve? No, it's not. Many Unregistered Workers are still in difficult circumstances that have not changed much. The problem of reality, almost the same as 20 years ago, is that of being subjected to the weakest laws of employment licenses and military service, and the most pressing "registering" problems in their lives are still the same. The author asks: “Why is it that the situation of unregistered migrant workers doesn't change or improve? “We're going to have to go to the next level.”. And the daily life of migrant workers and the problems they face and the dares to put them on the table. ‘Did I fully understand their lives? ‘ I’m not going anywhere. ’. The author first makes critical analysiss of the absence of social awareness and bias and human rights problems that people face. The emphasis is on the respect of migrant workers as individuals with human rights and not just as ‘ labor. ’. Then we see what policy went wrong in the field, what kind of legislation was wrong with the experience we had on the scene, what the driving workers were doing, how we could find a way to coexist with them as the legitimate people who would take responsibility for the decline in our society, and then make sure that we can do what we can now do for consideration and solidarity.

Korean title: 그림자를 찾는 사람들

Korean author: 이영

Korean publisher: 틈새의시간

ISBN-13: 9791198387561

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NE********
December 1, 2023

What does it mean to find a shadow? I was curious. Shadows are dark areas of objects that light cannot pass through, but in humans they are also conscious of being judged invisible. The story of finding such shadows can be understood as metaphorically a reflection of the shadow, of people like me and not being treated for some reason. This is an example we've seen a long time ago. The images of the unhumanized and impersonal labor scene of so many foreign workers who have entered our country,

AQ******
December 1, 2023

There was a world that was invisible because of our indifference and our blindness. And since we don't try to, we don’t know them living on this land with us. I started to look back on whether I had lived with them and drawn their lines, while opposed to social discrimination and disgust. As I read this book, I took off my glasses that covered my eyes and faced the reality of our neighbor, the immigrants. It's about people looking for shadows, working in the neighborhood who don't have any

DJ*****
December 1, 2023

The real problems facing our society, but with differences of interests and positions, we still have no solutions, and despite the ongoing changes, those who are in the shadow of society, are migrant workers and foreign workers. It is a book of social science that has been seen in books, and is considered to be a persistent social problem, but can be taught or determined in a realistic way to tell you why these changes and improvements don't happen quickly and frankly express themselves in

HA*****
December 1, 2023

There are several problems that become a big issue in Europe every time the presidential election, the general election season, etc. Abortion, human rights, death penalty, and the most pressing issue these days is immigration. Germany, France and other European developed countries are struggling with African refugees coming through Italy and Greece, Syrian refugees and new immigrants. There's been a recent fear of another refugee, another immigrant, and another threat of the civil war in

L0*****
December 1, 2023

Non-conventionist is either registered without proper documents or staying in, and after the legal entrance, the people are more than allowed to be registered. To be honest, you know the illegal aliens who are familiar with it. It is a lie if you have not thought that the issue of American migrant workers, who are criminals who live an abnormal life, is what they were doing. The labor price of this has been so named a spirit of goodness that it has revealed its exposure to labor conditions,

KS*****
November 22, 2023

There are more than two million migrant workers on this planet who live with us. There was a time when we had to stay illegal, since the Korean War, when many people had moved to the United States and were suffering from much grief on the ground. Now, a lot of migrant workers in Southeast Asia are working on what we call 3D jobs, but we're hurting them with bias and wrong perspective. If we don't have them, it's a shame that our labor environment cannot be rapidly deteriorating and that we are

이영: 그림자를 찾는 사람들
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