What is the significance of joining the International Organization for Migration?

The significance of China's accession to the International Organization for Migration is shown in the following aspects:

1. Effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of immigrants. The legitimate rights and interests of both immigrants in China and China people abroad can be effectively guaranteed.

2. Strengthen international cooperation, deeply participate in international immigration affairs, and enhance China's international influence. China's participation not only helps to promote the integration of domestic policies with the international community, but also helps to enhance China's influence on the immigration issue and enhance its voice in the formulation of international rules to solve the immigration problem and the implementation mechanism of international immigration protection.

3. It is conducive to cracking down on irregular immigrants, especially illegal immigrants who enter the country through human trafficking and smuggling, and further solving a series of illegal and criminal problems that may arise from this.

4. Reasonably carry out humanitarian relief work for refugees. Since China has not yet established a perfect refugee screening and resettlement system, China's accession to the International Organization for Migration will help to establish and improve the procedures related to refugee assistance. This does not directly mean that a large number of refugees will flood into China. On the contrary, joining the International Organization for Migration will make China's refugee assistance system more institutionalized and perfect.

At the initiative of Belgium and the United States,19511February 5th, an "international conference on migration" was held in Brussels, which decided to establish the European Intergovernmental Committee on Migration (ICEM). The Articles of Association of the Organization came into being in 1953, came into force in 1954, was registered in the United Nations Secretariat in 1955, and was incorporated into the United Nations Treaty Collection. 1980, the organization changed its name to "Intergovernmental Migration Committee". 1May 1987, the organization revised the Articles of Association, and the new Articles of Association came into effect on June1989165438+1October 14. According to the new regulations, the organization changed its current name to "International Organization for Migration (IOM)".

201June 4th, China formally applied to join the International Organization for Migration.