{"id":43418,"date":"2020-01-15T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43418"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:50:24","slug":"china-is-tightening-control-over-north-korean-female-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/china-is-tightening-control-over-north-korean-female-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"China is tightening control over N. Korean female migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese authorities have ordered local security forces in areas bordering North Korea to standardize the investigation and treatment of female North Korean migrants in the region, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll local police posts in Liaoning Province received orders in mid-December telling them to file reports on interrogations of female defectors and to store them along with the family registration documents of the Chinese males with whom the women cohabit,\u201d a Daily NK source in China reported in mid-December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new orders come on the heels of Chinese efforts to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/is-china-policy-toward-female-north-korean-defectors-changing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">investigate the defection routes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of North Korean migrant women to identify human traffickers in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMPROVING CONTROL OVER DEFECTORS IN CHINA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt looks like the authorities are aiming to manage the population of North Korean female migrants and their children on an official basis,\u201d another source in China told Daily NK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Chinese security forces have been informing female defectors of the specific administrative processes and costs of registering their children with the department that deals with household registrations. It seems that in future, the children of these women will be able to be registered on the family registers [of their Chinese fathers],\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has hitherto been impossible for the children of illegal migrant North Korean mothers to be officially added to household registers in China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, many births have gone unregistered or, in some cases, fathers have had to take genetic tests to demonstrate their paternity to the authorities, and then paid a fine in order to officially register their offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other instances, parents have been driven to more extreme courses of action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause in the past, female migrants haven\u2019t been able to register the births of their children, this led in some cases to the transfer of household registrations of similarly aged Chinese children who had died,\u201d the source explained. \u201cThe security forces have now cautioned that people who acquire registrations for their children under false pretenses in this way will face legal censure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MIGRANT WOMEN STILL FACE OBSTACLES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Chinese authorities\u2019 new attitude may auger well for the children of Chinese fathers and migrant North Korean mothers, Chinese officials are not planning to allow the migrant women themselves to register in the same way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe security officials have told female migrants that they won\u2019t be issued identity documents,\u201d one of the sources said. \u201cAs long as they put down roots in one place and live there quietly, though, there won\u2019t be any problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, the Chinese authorities have told defector women in the region explicitly that they should stop worrying about being forcibly returned to North Korea and settle down with their Chinese families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources also noted that Chinese authorities have been bringing groups of female migrants together and taking detailed notes of mobile and home phone numbers of both they and their husbands, as well as asking them when, where, and how they came to know their Chinese husbands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey told everyone to report immediately to the police or heads of villages about any unidentified women in their villages by the end of December,\u201d one of the sources recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Chris Green<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E4%B8%AD%EA%B3%B5%EC%95%88-%EB%B6%88%EB%B2%95%EC%B2%B4%EB%A5%98-%ED%83%88%EB%B6%81%EC%97%AC%EC%84%B1%EC%97%90-%EA%B0%95%EC%A0%9C-%EC%86%A1%ED%99%98-%EC%95%88%ED%95%A0%ED%85%8C%EB%8B%88\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities have ordered local security forces in areas bordering North Korea to standardize the investigation and treatment of female North Korean migrants in the region, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cAll local police posts in Liaoning Province received orders in mid-December telling them to file reports on interrogations of female defectors and to store them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":43217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[222,844],"class_list":["post-43418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border","tag-border","tag-defections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China is tightening control over N. 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