As the process of global integration speeds up, personnel exchanges as well as thecommunications between different countries and areas are becoming more and morefrequent. However, under these circumstances, the emergency of non-traditional securityfactors, local conflicts, uncertain social conditions and nature disasters, etc. cause muchthreat and damage to citizens overseas. The security of Chinese overseas has drawn plentyof attentions ever since the implementation of the "going out" strategy. It urges us toreview our systems toward the protection of overseas citizens as the growing occurrenceof overseas security accidents, which puts forward new challenges and tasks to diplomacyin the new period.This thesis is divided into five chapters:ChapterⅠmainly analyses the consistent ofoverseas Chinese citizens and interests, define the scope of Chinese citizens andcorporations, summarizes major threats overseas Chinese face, and try find out the causes.ChapterⅡstarts from basic academic classifications of overseas citizen protection, takes adeep look into the theories of overseas citizen protection in the international legal,expounds the theories of foreigner treatment and administration, and introduces otherfundamental theories based on the trend of humanization of international law and thejudicial practice in China. Chapter Ⅲ observes and studies overseas Chinese citizenprotection in the history since late Ming Qing Dynasty, suspects the current situation ofoverseas citizen protection and its defects. Chapter Ⅳ, taking examples for the US andJapan, introduces the systems of overseas citizen protection in developed countries, whichmay provide some inspirations to China. In the end, ChapterⅤputs forward feasiblesuggestions as to perfect the overseas protection system in China. |