IOM, will China accept refugees?

Hello, this organization is the largest intergovernmental organization dealing with international migration affairs in the world at present. It was founded in 195 1 and its headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. As of May, 20 16, IOM has 162 member countries and 9 observer countries, with an annual budget exceeding1300 million US dollars, and more than 8,400 employees working in 150 countries.

In fact, its main purpose is to deal with various immigration-related issues through cooperation with other countries, such as ensuring the orderly flow of immigrants to receiving countries and helping countries strengthen the capacity building of immigration governance. In other words, people are mainly concerned about immigration, and refugees are only a small part of it.

Joining this organization is to better solve China's own problems.

Therefore, China's choice to join the International Organization for Migration is certainly not "looking for trouble"-with a population of nearly 65.438+0.4 billion, we should help the world solve the refugee problem that is difficult for all countries to solve. We joined this organization mainly to solve our own problems in China!

What's the problem? Three aspects:

1, right to speak. -China's application to join such an international organization will help China to participate in global governance and enhance its international influence. After all, as a country with the second largest economic aggregate in the world, China should also play a more important role in the international arena, thus transforming our hard power into soft power.

2. The problem of talents. -Because the International Organization for Migration is concerned about the "immigration problem", we overseas Chinese want to return to China to contribute our strength, which is also considered as the "immigration problem". Then joining the organization will help our country to attract international talents better, learn from foreign advanced experience, and then share our own experience with other countries internationally.

3. China's "immigration" problem. -I'm afraid many people don't realize this. China itself is a huge "immigrant" country, but this immigrant is not a "transnational immigrant", but a cross-regional and cross-city immigrant. However, this is also considered as an immigration issue, so it belongs to the category of concern of the International Organization for Migration. In fact, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched many seminars on the "migration" of migrant workers in cities in China, such as the "left-behind children" in rural areas, which shows the wide range of migration problems!

Screenshot of the report: IOM participated in the seminar on "Left-behind Children"

The International Organization for Migration is also concerned about the refugee problem, but it has nothing to do with us. ...

Although we have explained the main work of the International Organization for Migration and the main reason why China joined the organization, it is undeniable that the work of the International Organization for Migration does include refugees.

It is only because China people did not pay attention to the refugee problem before, so although China became the "reserve army" of the organization 200 1 year ago, it was not until these two years that the refugee problem in Europe attracted worldwide attention that China felt the difficulty and even anxiety of the refugee problem. ...

However, Liu Guofu, a professor at the School of Law of Beijing Institute of Technology and a well-known expert on immigration law, said that although the International Organization for Migration is also concerned about the refugee issue, its focus is mainly on "promoting the orderly migration of population" and it has no right to ask any country to accept refugees for no reason.

He also said that how to receive, resettle and repatriate refugees is also decided by countries according to their own laws, and the International Organization for Migration has no substantive constraints on it, let alone exert pressure on its member States.

In fact, due to different levels of social and economic development, countries accept refugees in different ways, all of which are "selective acceptance of refugees", because receiving countries should also consider the costs and burdens of accepting refugees. Even if we want to accept refugees, we will give priority to highly educated young people who can bring labor to our country; Or the family as a unit, stable refugees, etc.

In addition, whether it is religious beliefs, culture, etc. It is too different from one's own people, and whether there will be contradictions with one's own people when integrating is also a category that a country will inevitably consider before accepting refugees.

So, let's talk about it. We have racked our brains to manage the decision-makers of this country with a population of nearly 654.38+04 billion. Will they still find themselves unhappy and let a large number of refugees flood into China, creating new contradictions and instability? There are many countries suffering from war and famine around our country. Our cautious stance of advocating peace and stability on sensitive issues in these sensitive countries also reflects our attitude towards refugee issues from another aspect.

Will China's accession to the International Organization for Migration lead to a massive influx of refugees into China?

The answer is obviouslyno. Last April, the Report on China's International Migration compiled by China and Globalization Think Tank showed that China was becoming a refugee receiving country. But from a global perspective, the number of refugees received by China is almost negligible. On the other hand, accepting refugees is not a mandatory obligation, and countries will negotiate to determine the specific share.

Wang believes that many mature experiences of the International Organization for Migration can be used for reference by China to help China receive refugees in a more orderly and standardized way.

"It is time for China to deeply participate in global governance. China hopes to assume more international responsibilities, which must include receiving refugees. " Wang said that China is now the second largest economy in the world, and properly accepting refugees is an international humanitarian obligation and a manifestation of the responsibility of big countries.

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