Commentary: undocumented women: pushed from poverty and conflict, pulled into unjust disparity.

摘要

The statistics provide the background. The United Nations estimates that 3 per cent of the world's population (213 million people by 2010) live outside their country of origin.Most immigrants move from developing to developed countries, where international migrants constitute more than 10 per cent of the population. Global data for undocumented migrants are difficult to obtain, but estimates suggest that there may be 30 million undocumented migrants worldwide, as many as 11 million in the United States. Undocumented immigrants make up 4 per cent of the population of the US and 5.4 per cent of its workforce.