Over the last two decades East Asian countries have demonstrated the simultaneous developments of state welfare provision, immigration control and immigrant integration policy. Despite significant growth in related interest and research, studies on immigrants and their social inclusion are still relatively scarce, especially in terms of the intersection of East Asian welfare and immigration regimes. This study thus examined and compared, from a historical perspective, the development of welfare and immigration regimes and their impact on the social rights of low‐skilled labour migrants in Japan and South Korea. These two countries have taken somewhat divergent paths, which has resulted in the persistent ethnic differentiation of low‐skilled labour migrants in Japan and their ethnically hierarchical inclusion in Korea. This article argues that the two policy legacies of East Asian welfare and immigration regimes, namely, productivism and ethnic nationalism, still significantly matter in policy making related to low‐skilled labour migrants.

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东亚福利与移民制度的交叉点：日本和韩国的低技能劳工移民的社会权利

在过去的二十年中，东亚国家展示了国家福利供给，移民控制和移民融合政策的同步发展。尽管相关兴趣和研究有了显着增长，但对移民及其社会包容性的研究仍然相对匮乏，尤其是在东亚福利与移民制度的交叉方面。因此，本研究从历史的角度审查并比较了福利和移民制度的发展及其对日本和韩国低技能劳工移民的社会权利的影响。这两个国家采取了一些分歧的道路，从而导致了日本低技能劳工移民的持续种族分化，以及他们在韩国的种族等级包容。