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| Ambassador Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam on October 29 collaborated with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to organize a workshop to officially launch Vietnam Migration Profile 2023 in Ha Noi.
The event was attended by nearly 80 delegates from various ministries, agencies, foreign embassies and international organizations. They actively discussed prominent migration trends in recent years.
In his opening remarks, Ambassador Nguyen Minh Vu, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, highlights several key findings of Vietnam Migration Profile 2023 compared to the two previous editions, published in 2011 and 2016. These include, for the first time, analyses on migration flows of foreign nationals into Vietnam; policies and legislation related to the migration of foreign nationals; and the collection and analysis of an international migration data system with a wider range of statistical categories.
The Migration Profile also provides a more comprehensive assessment of policies and practices in ensuring the rights of women during migration, and it offers information and results regarding Vietnam’s implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
Mr. Nguyen Minh Vu emphasizes that promoting legal migration, preventing and stopping migration through informal channels, ensuring safe migration, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of migrants, including both Vietnamese citizens migrating abroad and foreign nationals migrating into Vietnam, have always been consistent policies of Vietnam.
He affirms that Vietnam seeks to enhance cooperation with other countries, United Nations agencies, and international organizations to strengthen the exchange of experiences in migration governance, develop and manage migration data systems, and implement measures to promote safe and legal migration while minimizing the vulnerabilities faced by migrants during the migration process.
Speaking at the workshop, Ms. Mitsue Pembroke, Officer in Charge for IOM, states, “The Vietnam 2023 Migration Profile Report provides us with a more multi-dimensional perspective on various aspects of migration through data and evidence-based analysis.”
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| Delegates at the event |
She added, “In a constantly changing world, along with globalization and integration, understanding the issues surrounding migration will enable countries to formulate more effective, evidence-based policies. The Migration Profile Report is a guidebook that helps us better understand trends, and also grasp the remaining challenges related to this issue.”
Vietnam Migration Profile 2023 was compiled under the leadership of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the participation of various agencies, as part of the project “Supporting Evidence-Based Policy and Programmes in the Context of Cross-Border Mobility in Vietnam”.
This project was jointly implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and IOM, with funding from the IOM Development Fund (IDF). The Migration Profile provides a comprehensive analysis of migration flows, including both Vietnamese citizens migrating abroad and foreign nationals migrating into Vietnam, and the relevant policies and laws concerning migration in 2017–2023.
The Migration Profile highlights the crucial role of migrants in promoting social development and economic growth, both in Vietnam and in other related countries (countries of origin and destination). It concludes that if managed effectively, international migration can serve as a catalyst for sustainable development, contributing to the socio-economic development of each country, locality and community, and the migrants themselves.
According to data from the Vietnam Migration Profile 2023, during the period of 2017–2023, labor migration continued to be the predominant form of migration in Vietnam, with nearly 860,000 workers going abroad for employment under contract, averaging more than 100,000 workers per year mainly in Japan, Taiwan (China) and the Republic of Korea. Educational migration also saw a similar increase; although exact figures are not yet available, it is estimated that over 250,000 Vietnamese students are currently studying abroad, primarily in the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, the United States, Taiwan (China), Canada, China, the United Kingdom and Germany.
The proportion of Vietnamese migrants who are female is on the rise. The inflow of foreign nationals into Vietnam has also been relatively diverse, with labor migration being the most significant category, as 475,198 foreign nationals were granted work permits between 2017 and 2022./.