Dialogue with Refugees: Seoul Migrant Workers' Center (17 July 2024)

📌 Wednesday, 17 July
📌 Seoul Migrant Workers’ Center X MAP
📌 @MAP meeting room

💬 This was held with staff and social work trainees from the Gangdong, Eunpyeong and Yangcheon migrant workers’ centers, who visited the MAP meeting room. The speakers were the DR team’s Egyptian refugee speaker “Majun” and Ethiopian refugee speaker “Uletau.”

📚Kim Riha, participant from the Seoul Migrant Workers’ Center
”In particular, one refugee strongly criticized Korean capitalism and working conditions, which treat workers like disposable paper cups or tissues. As a Korean native resident, I reflected on how I had uncritically accepted Korea’s attitude toward labor. I realized that to speak about the human rights of migrant workers, we must examine the whole state of labor in Korea.”

📚Hong Seohui, participant from the Seoul Migrant Workers’ Center
”I thought it was similar to the situation of undocumented migrants, and I came to think that what is needed is not simply control but ‘a system that helps people stay on this land as human beings.’”

📚Kim Yeonhui, participant from the Seoul Migrant Workers’ Center
”Refugees can face very painful circumstances, because it is hard for them to plan their futures and they experience losing their dignity.”