Preamble
The High Contracting Parties,
Recalling
the Resolution adopted on 5 December 1951 by the Migration Conference in Brussels,
Recognizing
that the provision of migration services at an international level is often required
to ensure the orderly flow of migration movements throughout the world and to facilitate,
under the most favourable conditions, the settlement and integration of the migrants
into the economic and social structure of the country of reception,
that similar migration services may also be required for temporary migration, return
migration and intra-regional migration,
that international migration also includes that of refugees, displaced persons and
other individuals compelled to leave their homelands, and who are in need of international
migration services,
that there is a need to promote the co-operation of States and international organizations
with a view to facilitating the emigration of persons who desire to migrate to countries
where they may achieve self-dependence through their employment and live with their
families in dignity and self-respect,
that migration may stimulate the creation of new economic opportunities in receiving
countries and that a relationship exists between migration and the economic, social
and cultural conditions in developing countries,
that in the co-operation and other international activities for migration the needs
of developing countries should be taken into account,
that there is a need to promote the co-operation of States and international organizations,
governmental and non-governmental, for research and consultation on migration issues,
not only in regard to the migration process but also the specific situation and needs
of the migrant as an individual human being,
that the movement of migrants should, to the extent possible, be carried out with
normal transport services but that, on occasion, there is a need for additional or
other facilities,
that there should be close co-operation and co-ordination among States, international
organizations, governmental and non-governmental, on migration and refugee matters,
that there is a need for the international financing of activities related to international
migration,
Do hereby establish
the International Organization for Migration, hereinafter called the Organization,
and
Accept this Constitution.