Kama
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# Posted: 8 Sep 2006 21:54
BBC NEWS World Women 'form half of all migrants': "Women 'form half of all migrants'
Women migrants play 'a vital role' in supporting families at home
Women and girls now make up half of all international migrants, totalling 95 million, a UN report says.
The report urges better protection of a population that it says is more vulnerable to abuse and trafficking.
It also says more young people are deciding to move countries, but because of their age cannot migrate legally and are also at risk of being exploited.
The economy of developed countries and their ageing populations benefit from migrants despite perceptions, it says.
This year's State of World Population report, entitled A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, is released by the UN Population Fund.
Migrant women send an estimated $232bn (�149bn) in remittances back to their home countries last year, says the report. "
The importance of women migrants in making a difference in their countries of origin and the places they go to is very siginificant... and the difference our mobility makes often means that our experiences make us different from other immobile women.
There is no natural solidarity between the migrant woman and the woman in the country of destination. Usually the migrant woman is the subaltern and the Woman of the host country is the "Mistress"...
I am quite certain that the biggest problem is the exploitation of migrant women by the "mistresses" while the loudest and publicised narrative is the exploitation of migrant women by men...
It is really time that the role of "mistresses" is examined and that the exploitation of women by women is properly researched.
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