SHOULD ECONOMIC MIGRANTS BE REPATRIATED?
WHERE THE MOTIVATION FOR A REFUGEE LEAVING A COUNTRY IS
PREDOMINANTLY ECONOMIC, IT IS TEMPTING TO CONCLUDE THAT SUCH
REFUGEES SHOULD BE PRIME CANDIDATES FOR REPATRIATION.
HOWEVER,
IN THE CASE OF VIETNAM, UNHCR HAS NOT MANAGED TO ELABORATE ANY
SCHEME FOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION; THERE ARE EFFECTIVELY NO
VOLUNTEERS AND THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT HAVE SHOWN NO WILLINGNESS
ANY QUESTION OF INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION WOULD
TO CO-OPERATE.
RAISE PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT OF THOSE
INVOLVED AND COMPLIANCE WITH HMG'S INTERNATIONAL ALLEGATIONS,
AND THE UNDERSTANDINGS ARISING FROM THE 1979 GENEVA CONFERENCE•
UNLESS THESE PROBLEMS COULD BE SOLVED IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE
HOW INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION WOULD BE POSSIBLE.
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