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This study critically analyzes how South Korea’s migrant domestic care labor policies institutionalize structural precarity in terms of visa status and labor rights protection. Focusing on the Filipino Domestic Manager Pilot Project, it examines the multidimensional impacts of recent policy proposals on migrant workers’ labor and social rights. While domestic care labor underwent an institutional transformation through the enactment of the Domestic Workers Act to overcome its long-standing informality, this paradoxically created a new institutional contradiction: a dual structure between domestic workers and domestic employees. The study investigates how this dual structure, when intersecting with the migrant labor regime, generates institutional vulnerability across four dimensions: exclusion from social insurance systems, downward pressure on wage structures, restrictions on labor mobility, and ambiguity in employment relationships. The findings reveal that current policy proposals, focusing solely on addressing short-term labor supply issues, overlook fundamental challenges of guaranteeing workers’ basic rights and establishing stable working conditions. This research proposes the necessity of ensuring non-discriminatory labor rights for migrant domestic care workers, their substantive incorporation into social security systems, and building a sustainable care system through strengthening the public nature of care work.

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