Deck 14: Migration and Borderlands in the Global ERA

Question 1

Which of the following statements about globalization is not true?

A) It is a new phenomenon.
B) It involves the movement of ideas and goods.
C) It is more accelerated in pace today.
D) It involves states and international organizations.

Answer 1

It is a new phenomenon.

Question 2

The United Nations estimates that today there are approximately how many international migrants and refugees?

A) 230 million
B) 67 million
C) 323 million
D) 17 million

Answer 2

230 million

Question 3

All of the following are supra-state entities except:

A) IMF.
B) WTO.
C) U.S. Congress.
D) World Bank.

Answer 3

U.S. Congress.

Question 4

When individuals make their own decisions to migrate for economic opportunity, and then remain in those countries of arrival permanently, this is known as:

A) forced migration.
B) voluntary migration.
C) bifocal migration.
D) transnational migration.

Question 5

A unidirectional movement from the place of origin to the place of arrival is referred to as:

A) push-pull migration.
B) bipolar migration.
C) forced migration.
D) transnational migration.

Question 6

Transnational migrants:

A) move back and forth between countries for employment opportunities and maintain a social network in their countries of origin.
B) are migrants who moved within a single country from one region to another seeking employment opportunities.
C) move across state boundaries and occasional national boundaries to seek permanent re-location in another country.
D) are families that are composed of generations of migrants between two or more countries for employment reasons.

Question 7

In 2014, it was estimated that there are approximately how many undocumented people in the United States?

A) 11.3 million
B) 17.1 million
C) 3.8 million
D) 1.7 million

Question 8

The ability to see the world through two cultural lenses, one based on perspectives and cultural practices learned in the homeland and one learned in the new locale, is called:

A) bicultural perspectives.
B) multiculturalism.
C) cultural bifocality.
D) dual cultural relativism.

Question 9

All of the following are associated with most Andean men who migrate from the Azuayo-Cañari region of Ecuador to the U.S. except:

A) they send remittances back to Ecuador.
B) it serves as rite of passage into manhood.
C) they find it easier to get marriage partners in Ecuador.
D) they never return to Ecuador after arriving in the U.S.

Question 10

Women who work in Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are employed primarily in:

A) domestic work.
B) industrial factories.
C) healthcare work.
D) educational work.

Question 11

Free Trade Zone businesses preferred young unmarried women workers for all of the following reasons except:

A) they were temporary workers.
B) they were ambitious and wanted to become more skilled at their jobs.
C) they were believed to be more compliant than male workers.
D) they believed they were better suited to tedious work.

Question 12

Which of the following is not considered domestic service work?

A) In-home healthcare workers
B) Nannies
C) Maids
D) Assembly line work at factories

Question 13

Filipina domestic service workers in Hong Kong have:

A) a six-day work week.
B) childcare available as an incentive.
C) a savings plan and high wages.
D) permanent visas to live as migrants.

Question 14

Women's work on the global network tends to be all of the following except:

A) health services.
B) transportation.
C) domestic service.
D) factory production.

Question 15

A borderland is:

A) the space between places.
B) an unclaimed frontier.
C) an area where only migrants live.
D) a transnational community.

Question 16

The spatial dimensions of culture are referred to by anthropologists as:

A) cultural bifocality.
B) place.
C) borderlands.
D) space.

Question 17

Places:

A) only exist on borderlands.
B) become meaningful as spaces.
C) are not associated with territories and are only imagined.
D) do not have fixed meanings.

Question 18

Which of the following is not true of Postville, Iowa?

A) It resisted the global industrial workforce.
B) It had a kosher meat-packing plant.
C) It was historically based on a farm base.
D) It had a wide-ranging international community of workers.

Question 19

In a study of the San, researchers found that:

A) the San today all live on reservations and are being integrated successfully into the urban life that surrounds them.
B) they practice hunting and gathering, the same way they have always practiced, unaffected by social change.
C) they practice a mixed subsistence economy including herding, foraging, and wage work.
D) they work as trackers for game preserves and no longer have interest in a foraging way of life.

Question 20

Space where rural and urban zones meet and mingle are called:

A) ex-urban places.
B) ex-urban spaces.
C) cosmopolitan zones.
D) blended communities.

Question 21

Which of the following is an older model for cultural groups?

A) Center-periphery cultures
B) Global cultural flows
C) Ex-urban spaces
D) Ethnoscapes

Question 22

In 2015 in the People's Republic of China, approximately how many individuals migrated from rural to urban environments?

A) 300 million
B) 117 million
C) 82 million
D) 7 million

Question 23

When Western businesses and Western culture flow into smaller, more local areas:

A) they remove all aspects of local indigenous culture.
B) they are themselves changed by local conditions.
C) they are usually rejected out right by rural inhabitants.
D) they create a dynamic environment of upward growth and creativity.

Question 24

What does Ulf Hannerz mean by a "habitat of meaning"?

A) It is a term that is synonymous for culture.
B) It is meaning that is transnational during certain periods.
C) It is a meaning that is bound by strict tradition.
D) It is a set of meanings shared by a collectivity of people.

Question 25

What specific change caused the most significant shifts in the lives of the Upriver People of Sarawak?

A) Silver mining industry
B) Lumbering industry
C) The Green Revolution in agriculture
D) Destruction of the rivers through silt collection

Question 26

Media are associated with all of the following except:

A) they are always global in scope.
B) they are omnipresent.
C) they shape and change people's perceptions of the world.
D) they enable people to imagine different worlds.

Question 27

A point of view that is possessed by those who cross borders with legal papers in pursuit of various interests is called:

A) relativism.
B) habitual meaningfulness.
C) cosmopolitarism.
D) elitism.

Question 28

Which television character most resonated with a culture hero of the Upriver People, becoming wildly popular among these long-distance traders and wage laborers in Borneo?

A) Hulk Hogan
B) Daffy Duck
C) Scooby Doo
D) Incredible Hulk

Question 29

Which of the following statements about global cities is incorrect?

A) They are made up of diverse peoples.
B) They concentrate corporate power within their boundaries.
C) They are associated with flexible citizenry.
D) They include elite and low-wage workers.

Question 30

What is meant by the term "Pacific Shuttle"?

A) The movement and dispersal of families and family members between China and other countries for business interests
B) A transportation arrangement of global flights and luxury liners between China and Hong Kong for business purposes
C) A railroad line that connects all Asian countries for business people traveling as flexible citizens
D) The movement of money between the U.S. and China

Question 31

Global movement is made possible by multinational institutions.

Question 32

The unidirectional movement of immigrants to the U.S. for employment opportunities is known as forced migration.

Question 33

East Harlem is currently also known as Italian Harlem, since the largest population of immigrants today is from Italy.

Question 34

Transnational immigrants are a heterogeneous group of people.

Question 35

In cultural bifocality, the two perspectives are blended into a single syncretic worldview.

Question 36

Factories prefer young, unmarried women in Free Trade Zones because they are believed to be more obedient.

Question 37

Place is connected to physical territoriality.

Question 38

In a global world, space is constantly being re-allocated.

Question 39

Urban spaces have always been borderlands.

Question 40

Today only San women engage in foraging.

Question 41

Modern urban spaces took their form in the 1960s.

Question 42

Ex-urban spaces are segregated from the surrounding urban and rural areas.

Question 43

Global homogenization is occurring because of global cultural flows.

Question 44

Media allow large audiences to travel without actually going anywhere.

Question 45

Flexible citizenship refers to a strategy of maximizing opportunities and benefits across national boundaries.

Question 46

?Define globalization.

Question 47

What is cultural bifocality, and what challenges does it present to immigrants?

Question 48

How is the global labor market gendered?

Question 49

Describe the meaning of global cultural flow.

Question 50

​What is the history of immigration in the United States? How has it shifted over the last 200 years?

Question 51

Describe the ways that gender intersects with the global labor force and give examples.

Question 52

What is the meaning of space and place in anthropology? Discuss the current configurations and importance of borderlands, ex-urban spaces, and global flows.