Exam 13: Migration

What term do anthropologists use to refer to the Nikkeijin, or Japanese who continue to travel back and forth between Japan and Brazil?

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

What is the difference between transnational and yo-yo migrants?

In the early part of the twenty-first century, the number of people arriving in the United States by region included:

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?

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

Significant numbers of female migrants, both documented and undocumented, work as domestic workers in the United States. Discuss the vulnerabilities they face in the workplace and how they are integral to economies at home and abroad, such as the role played by remittances. Explain how women who work in domestic labor subsidize middle- and upper-class lifestyles in the United States.

Drawing on Bruce Whitehouse's ethnography of Malian migrants, explain why the textbook describes the experience of people from Togotala as one of "reshaping globalization from the ground up." How have remittances sent back to Togotala by migrants helped local residents? Discuss how the mostly Muslim migrants to the city of Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo have been able to establish themselves as merchants. How have these Malian migrants been treated in Brazzaville?

Many inhabitants from a small city in Brazil have migrated to New York. Young students in the city learn English and most of them plan to move to New York City one day. What term might anthropologists use to describe how several factors have created a culture in which migration has become a way of life?

According to the textbook, what is one of the key reasons that immigration continues to be a controversial issue in the United States?

A ban on which religious practice was enacted in a Florida town after local residents and officials learned of the Cuban and Haitian immigrants in the Santeria Church?

The "melting pot" model of immigration over simplified the way that migration actually took place in U.S. history. What was one significant and very real consequence of this early "melting pot" mythology?

What would a transnationalist immigrant do once established in their new country?

What is one of the things that entrepreneurial immigrants often rely on to secure sufficient financial resources?

Very different forces lead to a decision to migrate. Job opportunities, educational opportunities, and access to health care as well as poverty, famine, war, disease, and religious oppression are all factors in two very different kinds of force. What are the two terms used by anthropologists to describe these two forces that lead to migration?

Among the Togotala population, the success and strength of remittances is visible in the cinderblock construction in the central district. What is the primary source of these remittances?

Nawal studied medicine at her university in Egypt. Although she can work as a doctor in Egypt, she is enticed by the high wages and opportunities offered in other countries. What term refers to the phenomenon of many skilled professionals like Nawal leaving their country of origin?

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

According to the textbook, what has been one important factor driving internal migration in China since the 1980s?

What is meant by the term return migration?