VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY PART II
WORLD MIGRATION
THEORIES OF MIGRATION AND MIGRATION TRENDS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
People who move from their primary cultural context, changing their place of residence for an extended period of time.
What is A MIGRANT
100
Migrants who move across national boundaries to new locations for work and family reunification, and yet also maintain cultural, social, economic and political ties with their country, region or city of origin.
What are TRANSMIGRANTS
100
Took place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s during the Industrial Revolution, when peasants from the rural parts of Europe, fleeing poverty and famine, migrated to urban areas in Europe and North and South America.
What is THE SECOND WAVE OF MIGRATION
100
Regional economic disparities draw low-skilled workers from poorer countries who often perform what is known as the three Ds in Japan: work that is _____, _____ and _____.
What is DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS and DIRTY
100
This is Arabic for headscarf or covering.
What is HIJAB
200
Voluntary migrants who leave their home for limited periods of time and for specific purposes such as international students, business travelers, tourists, missionaries and military personnel.
What is A SOJOURNER
200
Refers to the sense of commitment and obligation that people within a group or network share to look after the well-being and interests of one another.
What is SOCIAL CAPITAL
200
Linkages that connect migrants from points of origin to destinations, led to the segmentation of ethnic groups in the United States.
What is CHAIN MIGRATION
200
DAILY DOUBLE (UP TO 400 POINTS) Argues that international migration today is a result of the structure of global capitalism. This theory is on this level.
What is THE WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY/ What is THE MACRO-LEVEL
200
The increased disparity between income levels combines with heightened exposure to actual and media images of material wealth such that poorer people, people in the lower economic ranks, feel a sense of this:
What is RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
300
Migrants who are forced to leave due to famine, war and political or religious persecution.
What is AN INVOLUNTARY MIGRANT
300
Occurs when a migrant places little value on either her or his own culture or the host culture.
What is MARGINALIZATION
300
Migrant workers from Mexico recruited through a guest worker program in the 1940s to fill labor shortages during WWII.
What is THE BRACERO PROGRAM
300
Addresses the attitudes and receptivity of the host environment, the ethnic communities within the majority culture and the psychological characteristics of the individual.
What is THE INTEGRATIVE THEORY OF CULTURAL ADAPTATION
300
Sets of interpersonal ties that connect migrants, former migrants and non-migrants in origin and destination areas through ties of kinship, friendship and shared community origin.
What Are MIGRANT NETWORKS
400
A form of forced or involuntary migration, as people are transported against their will in increasing numbers in the global context.
What is HUMAN TRAFFICKING
400
These are constructed by transmigrants whose density of movement and social ties over time and across geographic space form circuits of exchange, support and belonging.
What are TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
400
DAILY DOUBLE (UP TO 800 POINTS) Movements that called for the exclusion of foreign-born people – Chinese and other Asian immigrants were targeted through the _______ _______ _______ __ _______. Italian and Irish immigrants, viewed as a threat to American values and as not capable of being assimilated, were also excluded.
What is THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1887/ What are THE NATIVIST MOVEMENTS
400
Intercultural transformation occurs as a result of this stress-adaptation-growth process and identifies three outcomes:
What are INCREASED FUNTIONAL FITNESS, IMPROVED PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH, AND A SHIFT TOWARD INTERCULTURAL IDENTITY
400
Can be traced to the European colonial era from the 16th century through the 19th century.
What is THE FIRST WAVE OF WORLD MIGRATION
500
DAILY DOUBLE (UP TO 1000 POINTS) This is the adaptation model that Ailesha discussed during her lecture that applies to people that travel from your home culture to a foreign culture. There are three significant stages in this cultural adaptation process.
What is THE U-CURVE MODEL/ WHAT ARE THE ANTICIPATION, CULTURE SHOCK and ADJUSTMENT STAGES
500
A fear of outsiders.
What is XENOPHOBIA
500
These programs brought workers from the periphery of Europe—Spain, Italy, Turkey, Ireland, and Finland—to fill the labor shortages in industrialized Western Europe due to the war and declining population.
What are GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS
500
The four migrant-host modes of relationship are these:
What are ASSIMILATION, SEPARATION, MARGINALIZATION, AND INTEGRATION
500
Toni Morrison's theme, "A Foreigner's Home," requires us to come to terms with _____, _____ and _____ strangers.
What is BEING, FEARING and ACCEPTING
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