Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaks at the workshop. |
Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that in the current context of globalization, migration is taking place at an increasing scale and speed, affecting all countries. Therefore, it is necessary to periodically assess migration flows to improve migration policies and laws, he said.
Mr. Vu emphasized Vietnam's consistent policy of promoting legal migration, preventing migration through unofficial channels, ensuring safety, and protecting the rights and legitimate interests of migrants.
Vietnam wishes to promote cooperation with other countries as well as United Nations agencies and international organizations to share experiences in migration governance, build and manage a migration data system, and step up measures to promote safe legal migration and minimize the vulnerability of migrants, he said.
Mitsue Pembroke, Acting Chief of Mission of the IOM, said that the Vietnam Migration Profile 2023 provides a more multi-dimensional view of different aspects of migration through data and evidence-based analysis.
According to the profile’s data, in the 2017 - 2023 period, labour migration continued to be the main form of migration in Vietnam with nearly 860,000 people travelling abroad to work under contracts, mainly in Japan, Taiwan (China), and the Republic of Korea (RoK). More than 250,000 Vietnamese went abroad to study in the reviewed period, mainly to the RoK, Japan, Australia, the US, Taiwan, Canada, China, the UK, and Germany.
More than 475,000 foreigners were allowed to work in Vietnam between 2017 and 2022.