Research on the Causes and Countermeasures of Safety Issues of Chinese Overseas Students

Abstract

Chinese overseas students have been widely concerned by the public, known as the “overseas talents”. However, in recent years, the media have been repeatedly putting “Students from China became the victims”, “committed crimes” as their headlines. The physical and mental situations of these students frequently go wrong throughout the world--whether in Brazil, Thailand and other politically unstable developing countries, or in Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and other respectively safe developed countries where there are various kinds of problems that the safety of Chinese students is threatened and infringed or even some choose to revenge and become the offenders. Therefore, overseas students are currently thought as “overseas trash” to the mass. Targeted at this issue, the paper firstly gives a brief introduction of Chinese overseas students’ current situation, then classifies the related cases in recent years and analyzes the causes and reasons behind. Finally, it gives several constructive countermeasures for the relevant departments to research and consult.