외국인 선거권 부여 논의과정에 대한 비교연구 : 한국과 일본을 중심으로 = A Comparative Study on the Discussion of Granting Voting Rights to Foreigners : Focusing on the cases of Korea and Japan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Since the 1960's, economic activities going beyond the border have become active around Europe and cases have begun to occur where laborers did not return to their nations but settled down in other nations in a form of permanent residence. As members of residential areas where they live, laborers have rights and duties, and since the 1970's, voices have been raised regarding the voting rights of residential foreigners, who are part of the social citizenship, which resulted in voting rights being granted to foreigners around Western Europe.
Meanwhile, the awareness of the necessity to reform the law system, such as promoting internationalization and openness in Korean society, has also grownin Korea, and starting from the latter part of 1990's during the Kim Dae-Jung government, reforming the law began to be discussed. The solution was to deal with the various problems regarding human rights of foreigners, and the discussion has been going in the direction of grantinglocal suffrage to residents over 19 years old who have stayed over three years in Korea and acquiredthe right of permanent residence in 2005.
In Japan, the movement for demanding voting rights has been continuing since 1980 being led by Koreans residing in Japan and the Korean government has also repeatedly requested the Japanese government to grant voting rights to Japanese Koreans, but because of the passive attitude of the Japanese government, voting rights still have not been granted to foreigners residing in Japan. Therefore, this paper was written for the purpose of encouraging the Japanese government and political parties to reconsider the issue of granting voting rights to foreign resident, as well as enhancing the mutual understanding between Korea and Japan on the legal status of foreigners in the two nations, by conducting research to discover the current state of granting voting rights to foreigners residing in Korea and in Japan and compare the differences in the discussions of the issue.
The results show that, in the case of Korea, since the solution to the future domestic problems such as low birth rate and aging population can be found in the acceptance of foreigners, the country shows a positive attitude regarding immigration of foreigners and the establishment of a conducive environment in which foreigners can easily settle which responds to the increase in international marriages. In Japan, however, although it is the second largest economic power in the world and it needs aggressive behavior and attitude in dealing with the political rights of foreigners in order to promote a more open international society, many problems have become entangled on this issue in Japan, and it cannot easily implement the forward-looking policies that its situation demands.
Attention needs to be paid to how the Japanese government will deal with the issueof foreigners' voting rights and respond to the requests of the Korean government in the future.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 제1장 서론 = 1
• 제1절 연구의 목적 = 1
• 제2절 연구의 범위와 방법 = 2
• 제2장 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 역사적 전개와 사례 = 4
• 제1절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 역사적 전개 = 4
• 제2절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의 사례 = 8
• 제3장 한국에서의 외국인 선거권 부여 논의 = 20
• 제1절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 역사 = 20
• 제2절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 전개 과정 = 22
• 제4장 일본에서의 외국인 선거권 부여 논의 = 35
• 제1절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 역사 = 35
• 제2절 외국인 선거권 부여 논의의 전개 과정 = 43
• 제5장 한국과 일본의 외국인선거권 부여 논의과정 비교 = 56
• 제1절 양국의 선거권 부여 논의의 역사 비교 = 56
• 제2절 양국의 선거권 부여 논의의 전개 과정 비교 = 60
• 제6장 결론 = 65
• 참고문헌 = 68
• ABSTRACT = 74