제      목 Denied Status, Denied Education: Children of North Korean Women in China 원본정보 문서작성 언어 : 한글 | 0 Pages 서지사항 저      자 Human Rights Watch 발행연도 2008년 발행기관 Human Rights Watch 관련링크 관련링크가 없습니다. 관련링크가 없습니다. 내려받기 HRW denied status denied education.pdf [265.41 KB] 내용발췌 In the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin province, northeast China, many North Korean children and children of Chinese fathers and North Korean mothers live in legal limbo. There is no official data estimating the number of such children living in the area, but local residents put the number at anywhere between a few thousand and several tens of thousands. A serious problem these children face is access to education, as Chinese schools require verification of identity for admittance and continued schooling. In China, every citizen must be registered under a household registration system called hukou. Chinese law stipulates that a child born in China is entitled to citizenship if either parent is a Chinese citizen. However, since registering a child would expose the identity of the mother, Chinese men who have had children with North Korean women are faced with an awful choice. They can register their child at the risk of exposing their mothers, who could be arrested and repatriated to North Korea as “illegal” economic migrants, or they can decide not to register the child—leaving the child without access to education. When both parents are North Koreans, it is impossible for a child to obtain hukou.