Exam 13: Migration

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

Internal migration is:

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

Remittances are often associated with:

Someone who ________ would be said to be part of the 1.5 generation.

The author suggests that with regard to the case of Muslim taxi drivers in Minnesota:

Entrepreneurs are:

Guest workers are:

Social capital is:

A significant amount of attention has been given to people in Sudan who have been displaced as a result of ethnic and religious conflict. Do you think that there should be international oversight for people who have been internally displaced? Discuss whether conflicts that take place within national borders but are caused in part by larger global forces should involve international interventions. How does the conflict in the Republic of Congo discussed in the textbook differ from the crisis in Darfur, Sudan?

As increasing numbers of women migrate, how does the immigration experience reshape gender roles and gender relations? Drawing from evidence discussed in the textbook, analyze how migration enhances their social or economic status, as well as the personal and familial costs. How are husbands, children, and other kin affected by migration by women, and how do men experience shifts in gender roles?

Although they are typically highly trained individuals, the author suggests that ________ migrants often face downward mobility in destination countries when they cannot obtain credentials necessary to work in the destination country.

Return migration is:

In the early twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of ________ migrated to Brazil, Peru, and Argentina to seek new economic opportunities.

People who have been forced to migrate because of violence, religious persecution, or disasters but stay within their own countries are referred to as:

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?

Entrepreneurial immigrants often rely on ________, where financial resources are borrowed at interest, repaid, and borrowed again.

Imagine that in a small city in the northern region of Brazil, students have learned English for a generation with a specific focus on working in Brazilian restaurants in New York City. Two in three inhabitants have already migrated to New York, and several support organizations exist solely to serve migrants from this city. What term might anthropologists use to describe how migration has become a way of life?

People who stay actively connected with social, economic, political, and religious spheres across national borders are called ________ migrants.

When people seek to take advantage of emerging economic or investment opportunities, they are said to be ________ to new destinations.