Joe DeCapua, Report: Migrants Often Scapegoats for Society’s Problems. VOA, Dec 6, 2011 http://www.voanews.com/english/n ... ec11-135085138.html
("The IOM report also says the public often overestimates the size of the migrant populations in their country. In the United States, for example, an opinion poll indicated the public believed migrants made up 39 percent of the population. The actual figure was 14 percent. Another poll showed Italians believed migrants were 25 percent of the population, when in reality the figure was seven just percent.")
My comment:
(a) World Migration Report 2011: Communicating effectively about migration. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Dec 2, 2011 http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp
(a $98 book)
(b) Formed in 1951 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, IOM is an intergovernmental organization "with 132 member states, a further 17 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries" ("About IOM" in the web site). It is not a branch of United Nations but does send a permanent observer to UN. http://www.un.int/iom/
(c) I disagree with the translation of VOA Chinese. Apparently the VOA's English report talks about migrants/immigrants--rather than migrant workers 外来工. This is made apparent in the last sentence of the VOA report. Immigrants (legal or illegal; permament or temporary such as foreign students)--NOT native born, in other words--constitute about 14% of US population, according to census.