NORTH-KOREAN REFUGEES: ADAPTATION AND SOCIAL REALLOCATION IN SOUTH KOREA

Resumo

The international community has a responsibility to human rights, and within that concept, to the rights of refugees. Refugees represent a group of individuals who, due to factors beyond their control, must leave their territory in search of shelter in another location or community. Understanding the contemporaneity of the theme, the present article will seek to make a focused analysis of the North Korean refugees, more specifically, of their social reallocation in South Korea. From a brief analysis on the creation of public policies and understanding of Theory of Complex Interdependence, the article will analyze the number of North Korean refugees in South Korea, as well as South Korean programs to receive these refugees. From a bibliographical and qualitative analysis, as well as the reading of quantitative data, the article presents an analysis that demonstrates that, although with policies applied to refugees, the South Korean state cannot reach its own population to prepare it for the reception of these individuals by ensuring that the impact of cultural and social differences does not interfere with the full reallocation of North Korean refugees.

Key words: Refugee; South Korea; public policy; north-korean.