The role of people-elected deputies in implementing migration-related policies and laws was the focus of a seminar held by the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on December 18.
Head of the NA Committee on Social Affairs Nguyen Thuy Anh speaks at the event (Source: VNA)
Lam Dong (VNA) – The role of people-elected deputies inimplementing migration-related policies and laws was the focus of a seminarheld by the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs and the UnitedNations Population Fund in Vietnam in the Central Highlands province of LamDong on December 18.
Speaking at the event,head of the NA Committee Nguyen Thuy Anh briefed participants on Vietnam’smigration situation, stressing that this is an inevitable trend during thedevelopment process.
According to the 2015National Internal Migration Survey, during 2010-2015, 13.6 percent of thepopulation was migrants who mainly moved from urban areas to others or fromrural areas to urban areas.
Over the past years,the Party, National Assembly and Government have issued a lot of policies andlaws involved in migration, most recently Resolution No.21 of the Party CentralCommittee’s sixth session on population work in the new situation which settargets of the urban population ratio reaching 45 percent; population in borderand island areas and extremely disadvantaged areas arranged appropriately; allmigrants gaining accessing basic social services fully and equally; and theentire population registered and managed in a concentrated population database,Anh stated.
Migration has helpedpeople have more chances to develop family economy, improve their lives andapproach better educational services, she said, noting that there remainchallenges facing migrants in enjoying social welfare policies, thus puttingpressure on the nation and localities for migration management, infrastructuredevelopment and policy improvement to ensure the equality to access basicsocial services for migrants and their families.
Le Van Son from theDepartment for Economic Cooperation and Rural Development under the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development, said that as of late 2017, the nation hadaround 24,500 unplanned migrant households which had yet to be arranged stably,mostly in Central Highlands provinces.
Unplanned migrationhas had negative impacts on economic development, social security and order andenvironmental and natural resources protection, he added.
At the event,delegates delivered reports providing information about migration as well asdifficulties, challenges and orientations for migration management in the timeahead.-VNA
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Head of the NA Committee on Social Affairs Nguyen Thuy Anh speaks at the event (Source: VNA) 
