children, who suffer from serious mental stress of having to live in a relatively new environment, problems related to admission to high school, disagreement with parents on future careers and unwillingness to study under the guidance of parents one of whom is a stepparent, etc. The Guidelines present concrete directions and principles designed to bridge the current realistic gap in matters concerning the guarantee of immigrant children’s human rights (including right to education, health, and life with family) based on international norms, principles, and recommendations. 1. Guaranteeing migrant children’s right to education A. Current status and problems • The country’s education policy regarding children from multicultural families implemented under the Multicultural Families Support Act -- focuses on children of migrants married to Koreans. Under said policy, the government concentrates on the prevention of deficiency of learning due to delayed language development for children under 12 years and provision of stronger support to help them adapt to school life. As for children of migrant worker parents, the percentage attending schools remains low since many of the parents are undocumented aliens. They have difficulty accessing basic social rights -- including attending schools -- due to the government’s adoption of double standards in the form of provision of support for children and crackdown on parents. There is a need to reset the objective of the policy for migrant children as guarantee of the right to comprehensive education of all migrant children, including those of undocumented parents, and establish concrete criteria for the evaluation of the 46 Human Rights Guidelines on Migration

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