Deck 3: Migration

Question 1

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the second part of the twentieth century?

A) Europe
B) Latin America
C) Asia
D) Africa
E) Asia and Latin America together

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Emigration is

A) a permanent move to a new location.
B) a move that is for less than one year.
C) internal migration.
D) migration from a location.
E) migration to a location.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The recession of the early 21st century resulted in

A) slowed interregional migration because there were few opportunities anywhere.
B) slowed intraregional migration because housing prices were high.
C) increased interregional migration because of job searches.
D) increased intraregional migration because of job searches.
E) intraregional migration matched perfectly with interregional migration.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Ravenstein found that most migrants generally travel

A) short distances within the same country.
B) long distances to other countries.
C) short distances to other countries.
D) to rural areas for farming.
E) from North America to Europe.

Question 5

A country has net in-migration if emigration ________ immigration.

A) equals
B) exceeds
C) is closer to net migration than
D) is less than
E) varies more than

Question 6

Why was it difficult to accurately count the number of European immigrants to the U.S between 1840 and 1910?

A) European immigrants didn't have the correct documents.
B) Ellis Island had to process too many people at a time.
C) Europe experienced frequent boundary changes.
D) Many didn't stay very long.
E) They didn't have computers back then.

Question 7

About 20 million people from ________ and ________ have immigrated to the United States in the past half-century.

A) Mexico, Canada
B) Latin America, Asia
C) Asia, Europe
D) Asia, Africa
E) Latin America, Europe

Question 8

The Migration Transition characterized by high daily or seasonal mobility in search of food,is best categorized as

A) Stage 1.
B) Stage 2.
C) Stage 3.
D) Stage 4.
E) Stage 3 and 4.

Question 9

Migration is a

A) form of expansion diffusion.
B) temporary move, but for longer than one day.
C) form of contagious diffusion.
D) permanent move to a new location.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 10

Today in the United States,the principal type of interregional migrations is from ________ to ________ areas.

A) rural, urban
B) suburb, urban
C) urban, suburban
D) east, west
E) west, east

Question 11

Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted

A) women are more likely to migrate than men.
B) long migration distances are more likely than short.
C) migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.
D) intraregional migration is more important than interregional.
E) migrants move most frequently for economic reasons.

Question 12

Migration to the suburbs in the United States is driven by

A) changes in employment.
B) the opportunity to work in factories or service industries.
C) the opportunity to live in a detached house with a yard.
D) declining opportunities in agriculture.
E) a lack of any kind of housing in urban areas.

Question 13

The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by

A) making Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo more attractive.
B) dictating optimal locations for factories.
C) clearing the rain forest for agricultural activities in the interior.
D) moving the capital to Brasilia.
E) industrial development on the Atlantic coast.

Question 14

Which of the following is not presently one of the three largest migration flows in the world?

A) to Europe from Asia
B) to Europe from Africa
C) to North America from Asia
D) to North America from Latin America

Question 15

The government of Brazil has encouraged migration

A) from the interior to the coast.
B) from rural to urban areas.
C) to the United States and Europe.
D) from the coast to the interior.
E) to jobs in factories.

Question 16

Worldwide,rural to urban migration is

A) the major trend in developing countries.
B) driven by a desire for a simpler lifestyle.
C) the major trend today in the U.S. and Canada.
D) a thing of the past.
E) driven by population growth.

Question 17

Chinese interregional migration in recent years has primarily been from

A) mountain regions to coastal regions.
B) big cities to medium size cities.
C) rural to urban areas.
D) urban to rural areas.
E) factory jobs to farming jobs.

Question 18

The migration transition model predicts that international migration reaches a peak at ________ of the demographic transition.

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4

Question 19

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the nineteenth century?

A) Latin America
B) Asia
C) Europe
D) Africa
E) North Africa and Southwest Asia

Question 20

The U.S.center of population has moved steadily to the

A) east.
B) north.
C) south.
D) west.
E) center.

Question 21

A majority of undocumented migrants to the United States come from

A) China.
B) Mexico.
C) Canada.
D) Europe.
E) Africa.

Question 22

All of the below are true about Counterurbanization in the United States except

A) modern communications and transportation in developing countries can be a cause of counterurbanization.
B) counterurbanization results in part from the rapid expansion of suburbs.
C) migration to rural areas and small towns.
D) most counterurbanization represents genuine migration from cities to suburbs.
E) net migration from urban to rural area.

Question 23

Immigrants to the United States that are over 65 years old

A) do not have any requirements to enter the country.
B) represent the majority of all immigrant age groups.
C) represent only about 5 percent of all immigrants.
D) typically only stay for a few years and return back to their country of origin.
E) must be accompanied with a family or be deported.

Question 24

Immigrants to the United States under the age of 15

A) are less common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
B) are more common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
C) are equally common than the proportion of children already in the U.S. population.
D) cannot legally immigrate.
E) may only arrive with their mothers and proper immigration documents.

Question 25

The Pew Hispanic Center estimated in 2010 that there were about ________ undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

A) 6 million
B) 8 million
C) 11 million
D) 15 million
E) 22 million

Question 26

Counterurbanization is

A) the move from urban core to suburban areas.
B) due to expanding suburbs.
C) migration to rural areas and small towns.
D) the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations.
E) decline of the inner-city infrastructure.

Question 27

An environmental or political feature that hinders migration is

A) a visa.
B) a pull factor.
C) a push factor.
D) an intervening obstacle.
E) both a pull and push factor.

Question 28

When did the gender pattern of undocumented immigrants to the United States from Mexico switch from mostly men to about equal numbers between men and women?

A) the 18ᵗʰ century
B) the 1930s
C) the 1960s
D) the 1970s
E) the 1990s

Question 29

Which of the following events would not be considered a migration pull factor?

A) opportunity to get an education
B) living on a floodplain
C) religious freedom
D) a new industry that requires workers
E) safety from violent crimes

Question 30

In Tajikistan,nearly one-half of the gross domestic product depends on ________,primarily from ________.

A) exportation, raw materials
B) remittances, emmigrants living in Russia
C) remittances, other governments
D) exportation, manufacturing
E) international aid, the UN

Question 31

Counterurbanization has occurred primarily in

A) the West Coast states.
B) the Southern states.
C) the Northeastern states.
D) the Midwestern states.
E) the Rocky Mountain states.

Question 32

How does the United States treat economic migrants and refugees differently?

A) Refugees must first obtain visas and economic migrants need green cards.
B) Refugees must prove they will receive remittances.
C) Economic migrants are not admitted if they already have close family in the U.S.
D) Economic migrants are typically admitted because they possess special skills.
E) Refugees have priority over economic migrants for new jobs.

Question 33

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee is known as

A) an immigrant.
B) a job seeker.
C) an asylum seeker.
D) an internally displaced person (IDP).
E) a seasonal migrant worker.

Question 34

The leading cause for migration to the United States and Canada has been

A) freedom from religious persecution.
B) avoiding harsh environmental conditions.
C) forced migration.
D) economic opportunity.
E) fleeing dictatorial governments.

Question 35

Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?

A) religious persecution
B) failed harvest
C) flooding of a river
D) opening of a new factory
E) civil war

Question 36

Intraregional migration in the United States has slowed recently because of

A) lifestyle choices.
B) the economic recession.
C) a desire for detached houses with private yards.
D) job growth in urban centers.
E) a counterurbanization trend.

Question 37

Which statement is not true in the United States?

A) Nearly twice as many Americans migrate from cities to suburbs each year as migrate from suburbs to cities.
B) Suburban schools tend to be more modern and safer.
C) Net migration from urban to rural areas is called couterurbanization.
D) The major reason for the large-scale migration to the suburbs is because of employment.
E) Intraregional migration has been primarily from cities to suburbs.

Question 38

When did the gender pattern of migrants to the United States switch from more men than women to more women than men?

A) the 1920s
B) the 1950s
C) the 1970s
D) the 1990s
E) the 2000s

Question 39

Which factor most often causes migration?

A) economic
B) environmental
C) international
D) political
E) regional conflicts

Question 40

Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?

A) economic
B) environmental
C) political
D) circulation
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 41

What are some reasons why Spain has such a high percentage of foreign-born population?

Question 42

Describe the general relationship between population growth and migration.

Question 43

Describe suburbanization in more developed countries.

Question 44

Several million people have migrated to the United States illegally in recent years.Why have most of these people come to the United States?

Question 45

Migration to the United States declined in the 1920s as a result of new laws.What did these laws do?

Question 46

Describe the major intraregional and interregional migration patterns within the United States in recent years.

Question 47

Opposition to immigration in the United States coincided with

A) the majority of immigrants no longer arriving from Europe.
B) increased tensions over the Vietnam war.
C) decreased legal migration.
D) the economic boom of the 1990s.
E) large numbers of refugees moving into the country.

Question 48

In recent years,the duration of residency for unauthorized immigrants to the United States has been

A) decreasing.
B) increasing.
C) relatively constant.
D) has averaged only 2 years.
E) unknown since the immigrants are unauthorized.

Question 49

Unrestricted immigration to the United States was first limited by

A) hemispheric quotas in 1975.
B) the start of World War II.
C) the Constitution.
D) the National Origins Act of 1924.
E) the Quota Act of 1921.

Question 50

Migration to the United States declined during the 1920s primarily because of

A) economic depression in the United States.
B) forced migration after World War I.
C) the imposition of quota laws.
D) declining demand for industrial workers.
E) declining demand for domestic workers.

Question 51

What are some of the preferences that Congress established to select the immigrants that would fulfill the established quota?

A) diversity, clean criminal records, ability to receive remittances
B) skilled workers, number of children, religious background
C) family reunification, skilled workers, diversity
D) family reunification, economic means, passing medical exams
E) the Quota Act of 1921.

Question 52

What is ironic about the inhospitable climate for immigrants in Europe?

Question 53

Discuss why migration to the United States declined in the 1920s.

Question 54

Brain drain is

A) the large-scale emigration of talented people.
B) the process by which people are given reference for migration.
C) people forced to migrate for political reasons.
D) a cultural feature that hinders migration.
E) a net decline in literacy.

Question 55

List the major push and pull factors in migration and give examples of each.

Question 56

Describe changes in the movement of the U.S.center of population and reasons for those changes.