| Immigrant Women in the United States. A Demographic Portrait
Pearce, Susan C.
American Immigration Law Foundation, Immigration Policy Center, Summer 2006, 28p
“The migration of women to the United States is characterized by two contradictory trends. On the one hand, over the past 20 years women have comprised a growing share of new legal immigrants admitted into the country, a trend which mirrors the feminization of migration in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. On the other hand, women have constituted a declining share of the U.S. foreign-born population as a whole since 1970. This most likely is due to the fact that the majority of undocumented immigrants entering the country are men, although the numbers of undocumented women are on the rise.” Susan C. Pearce is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University and Director of Global Women of Baltimore
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