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At a time when male day laborers have become the most public and contentious face of economic immigration to the United States, female day laborers have doubled in size almost unobserved in recent years. Women now make up 44 percent of the nation's low-wage immigrant work force, and worldwide, studies show, more and more women are migrating for work. Female economic migrants have become an increasing presence, especially in big cities like New York.