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Since 2000, there has been a global trend towards expansion and inclusion in immigration policies. South Korea is no exception, with it having adopted the Employment Permit System and its immigration policies being expanded to include social integration policies for immigrants. However, the preferential treatment of co-ethnics (i.e.,Korean expatriates) in its immigration policy has been criticized as ethnic nationalism. In seeking to assess whether this criticism is warranted,this paper explores several pertinent questions. This paper finds that co-ethnic preferences in Korean immigration policy cannot be seen as a form of ethnic nationalism. Indeed, this policy is a form of affirmative action created to compensate for the unjust effects of forced migration, and it is suggested instead that this policy does not go far enough. In addition, and rather ironically, the struggle to include them as overseas Koreans in status has made their continuing plight invisible in the current social integration policy.
