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Since the later 20th century, there has been substantial labour migration from developing countries to high-income countries. This has included a substantial portion of female migrants. Studies on women migrant workers in high-income countries tend to focus on their employment in domestic work and care work for dual-income families. In the early 2000s, a sharp increase of the proportion of women among the emigrants from certain countries was observed, specifically emigrants from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines as well as Latin American countries.〔 ==Statistics== Although "South-South migration" (migration between developing countries) is generally more substantial than migration from developing to high-income countries, the World Bank estimates that there are about 73 million migrants from developing countries living in high-income OECD countries; about half of them are female and half of them are male.〔these numbers include both refugees and migrant workers. (Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 ). 〕 The 1970s and 1980s saw an increase in women migrant laborers to France and Belgium. In Europe there were three million women migrant workers in the 1990s. Since then, the number of immigrants to Europe has continually increased, among other things due to a higher demand for care work for multi-income families. In 2005, 191 million international migrant workers registered, and 94.5 million were women. Women migrants work in domestic occupations that are considered part of the informal sector and lack a degree of government regulation and protection. Lourdes Beneria, a feminist economist, argues that the demand for care work in Europe in the 1990s and 2000s have brought young Latinas to countries, like Spain, to provide care work for the aging population. The demand for these workers has risen because an increasing number of European women are moving toward the formal sector of work, and leaving their domestic duties for hire. Women leaving their country of origin are often considered to be temporary migrants. They leave for an unknown amount of time, but intend to return to their homeland after they have made and saved enough money. Given that women are statistically better at saving their capital gains, they are becoming more and more economically significant to the capital gains of their country of origin. This can be measured through remittances and how much is sent back to the country of origin. Documentaries, such as ''Letters from the Other Side'', illustrate that after some time, remittances may cease due to new responsibilities or new circumstances on the migrant workers abroad.〔Courtney, Heather, dir. Letters from the Other Side. Side street Films, 2006. Film.〕 Economic impacts and the impact of women working abroad has both negative and positive impacts upon the traditional family roles, children, and gender roles. Not only do migrant workers globalize the domestic workforce, it also broadens the impact of women on the global economy. Remittances by women migrant workers help bolster the GDPs of their countries of origin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women migrant workers from developing countries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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