Exam 9: Middle Eastern and North African Americans

Many Iranians kept to themselves for fear of__________.

The early immigrants formed a __________ of village-oriented entrepreneurs whose religious traditions served as their self identification.

A common social center for working-class Palestinian Americans is the__________.

Immigration legislation after 1965__________.

Israeli Americans typically experience a smoother transition to American life than any other immigrant group.

Among the push-pull factors contributing to Israeli immigration was __________.

__________ is a broad term covering people of diverse nationalities, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Although Americans described by this term may share a sense of peoplehood, they come from 22 nations of North Africa and the Middle East.

According to the functionalist view, the better educated, better skilled, and better connected immigrants__________.

Iranian Americans experiencing mixed feelings about no longer living in the homeland call themselves __________.

Syrian males usually came alone and then sent for their wives and children.

In what ways do Jewish Israeli immigrants maintain their identity?

Apply the three major sociological perspectives to the experiences of the groups discussed in this chapter.

Arab Americans are more likely to be married than the total U.S. population.

Malik and his immediate family came to the United States a few years ago. They have managed to carve out a nice, middle class lifestyle that they could never have imagined for themselves in their home country. Over the course of letters and phone calls, they convince some of their friends and extended family to come as well. This is a pattern known as __________ migration.

Interaction surveys of Americans and nonwestern newcomers in professional, managerial, or technical fields show__________.

Anti-Turkish sentiment in the United States prior to World War I was due primarily to__________.

Syrian-Lebanese assimilation is nearly complete because they now have __________, which is what Milton Gordon calls the last stage of assimilation.

The largest concentration of Palestinian Americans is in __________.

The term used for the gradual replacement in a neighborhood of one group by another is__________.

Today's second-generation Iranian Americans are mostly__________.