| Although recent advances in theorizing the international migration policy are apparently remarkable, the greatest weakpoint of the literature on international migration policy lies in its lack of consideration for the "policy process," in which policy actors make real interactions and produce ultimate policy outcomes. In this sense, this thesis tried to add value to the extant international migration policy studies by focusing on the process of the Korean foreign labor policy; particularly, this research attended to the "policy networks" in the policy process.;In this thesis, the following four specific themes were spotlighted and intensively examined with 25 hypotheses: (1) the glue of policy coalitions; (2) policy actors' collective action; (3) trust relationships in a policy network; and (4) policy actors' influence. In approaching those themes, the research adopted analytical methods from both social network analysis and traditional quantitative analysis tools, such as multiple regression and correlation analysis.;Major findings of this research include the following: (1) all the variables of the proximity of belief system between policy actors (PBS), the proximity of policy interest between policy actors (PPI), and the proximity of policy preference between policy actors (PPP) play a role as the glue of policy coalitions in policy networks, and the PPP is the most influential factor among them; (2) policy actors' deep core beliefs are not cogently related to the other belief levels, such as policy core beliefs and the secondary aspects of beliefs, indicating that the hierarchical structure of policy actors' belief systems proposed by the Advocacy Coalition Framework may be rejected; (3) collective action between policy actors is more influenced by the trust level between policy actors than any other variable, and the effects of the PBS, the PPI, and the PPP upon communication density mostly disappeared when trust level between policy actors was controlled; (4) the PPP is the most significant variable as an antecedent to trust and trustor's propensity to trust, and the PBS is the other significant variables in the analysis; and (5) policy actors' influence is significantly influenced by policy actors' trustworthiness and their centrality in the network among a variety of variables, and policy actors' trustworthiness is more highly associated with their influence level than their centrality. |
