Cultural Anthropology Quiz 3 study guide (chapter 13: Migration)

4.) Although globalization has produced increased flows of money, information, and goods, barriers to the flow of people are difficult to overcome. What is one of the principal barriers that migrants must overcome?

A) a high degree of regulation and immigration inspectors at borders

12.) Which of the following was the only immigrant group to be legally excluded on the basis of national origin in the United States?

A.) Chinese

18.) The generation of migrants who left their home countries as adults are known among scholars as which generation?

A.) first

6.) People who participate in programs that offer a temporary right to work but have limited long-term rights and privileges are called:

A.) guest workers.

10.) Which of the following best describes entrepreneurial immigrants?

A.) immigrants who move to start businesses and conduct trade

5.) Migrants often send economic resources back to their countries of origin. What important role do these resources play?

A.) supporting families and stimulating economic growth in local (origin) communities

14.) What do we call migrants who stay actively connected with social, economic, political, and religious spheres across national borders?

C.) transnational

19.) What is one reason that refugees are forced to leave their communities?

C.) ethnic conflict

15.) As a result of efforts to regulate international migration, which of these borders has become one of the most heavily guarded in the world?

B.) .U.S.-Mexico

11.) What is one of the primary motivations for labor immigrants?

B.) better wages than they find in other countries

17.) Where, on average, do the educational level and skills of most people who migrate illegally tend to lie?

B.) higher than their home country's national average

7.) What is the term used to describe people who have been forced to migrate because of violence, religious persecution, or disasters but stay within their own countries?

B.) internally displaced persons

3.) What do we call the economic resources that are transferred from migrants to family members or institutions in their country of origin?

B.) remittances

16.) Which of the following includes hometown associations, religious communities, and refugee placement groups that help to resettle newcomers in their destination communities?

B.) supportive organizations

1.) Which of the following statements about human migration is true?

C.) Only 3 percent of the world's population moves beyond national borders.

13.) What recent trend has been observed as a result of wages creeping upward for Chinese workers?

D.) factories are now shifting to Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos since they have cheaper labor

9.) How do anthropologists define refugees?

D.) people who have been forced to move beyond their national borders due to natural disasters, political or religious persecution, or violence

8.) Although they are typically highly trained individuals, ________ migrants often face downward mobility in destination countries because they cannot obtain the credentials necessary to work.

D.) professional

2.) People migrate for many different reasons, including to take advantage of emerging economic opportunities. What term do anthropologists use to describe this kind of positive reason to migrate?

D.) pull