Categories of Migration
Categories of Migration
Categories/Case Studies
Case Studies/New Immigrants
Policies, Politics and Programs
100
Due to his parents' failing health, Sujani's husband decided to leave his job and move to his parents' house in Uttar Pradesh, India. A few months ago Sujani and her family left their home in Madya Pradesh and moved to her in-laws' house in Uttar pradesh, India. This kind of migration is called;
What is Internal migration
100
What are the three groups of migrants who are identified as such due to the reasons for their migration;
Labor migrants; displaced persons; institutional migrants;
100
The Three Gorges Dam has created a vast reservoir upstream to Chongqing and resulted in the forced migration of over 1 million people from 140 villages. This kind of involuntary migration is called;
What is development-induced displacement
100
Women are a growing percentage of international migrants to and from all regions and in all types of migration. This trend is called;
What is feminization of intetrnational migration
100
According to Cole (1996), the inclusiveness displayed by working class people in Palermo, Italy, toward African and Asian immigrants is due mainly to:
What is 'lack of competition for jobs.'
200
Myphoung Tran received his education in the U.S. and married an American citizen. A few years later he sponsored his parents' move to the U.S. A month ago his parents arrived in the U.S. from Vietnam and just bought a small house in Houston, TX. This kind of migration is called;
What is International migration
200
Razark is a 8 year old boy who still whines for the toys he had to leave behind when Tamil militants ordered his community of Muslims to leave the Mannar District of Sri Lanka within two hours. He now lives with his family and other families like his in Puttalam, Sri Lanka, in a camp for _________
What is Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
200
The Maya in Guatamala had to flee to Mexico and the U.S. due to years of __________
genocide and structural violence
200
An individual's feeling of alienation and isolation due to the breakdown of traditional values, social relationships, and identity, often due to rapid social change, is called;
What is anomie
200
What are the 2 major aspects of exclusionary practices displayed by working class people in countries such as the U.S.?
Life boat mentality-(perceived constraints on resources) Working class racism
300
John regularly moves back and forth between the U.S., Netherlands, and Lebanon for work and family reasons. His cultural identity, according to him, transcends a single geopolitical unit. This kind of regular moving back and forth is called;
What is transnational migration
300
Kadeer has been forced to flee his country, Afganistan, because of religious persecution and violence against his minority community. He and his family now live in a camp with thousands of other people like them in neighboring Pakistan. Kadeer is a;
What is a refugee
300
Anthropologists and others have taken two positions on the Haitian braceros situation. The two positions are;
1. The system is a violation of Haitian men’s human rights 2: Haitian braceros are exercising free choice when they go to the Dominican Republic to work
300
The form of population movement in which a first wave of migrants comes and then attracts relatives and friends to the same destination is called_________. The migration from Dominican republic to the U.S. is considered to be this kind of migration.
What is Chain migration
300
What is 'Right of return?'
The United Nations' guaranteed right of a refugee to return to his or her home country to live.
400
Rural to urban migration is based on a person's assessment of lack of opportunity in one place compared to another. This theory is called;
What is Push and Pull theory of migration
400
People who move into a social institution, either voluntarily or involuntarily, are called;
What are Institutional migrants
400
Studies done by anthropologist Samuel Martínez shows that the braceros are not really “free” to “choose” to work in the Dominican Republic because of the extreme poverty in Haiti. Therefore, their choice is not 'free.' Rather it is a;
What is “structured choice” or ( “illusory choice”)
400
There are three distinct subgroups among Vietnamese immigrant to the U.S. whose patterns of adaptation are also distinctly different. These three different subgroups are;
What are 1. 1975-era elite 2. Boat people 3. Ethnic Chinese
400
Two major research areas of international migration policies and programs that anthropologists focus on are;
1. Human rights of migrants and the conditions they face in the destination (especially among involuntary migrants) 2. Migrants' 'right to return' 3. Applied work to improve the efficacy of humanitarian aid programs
500
Amara worked as a domestic help in Jordan for two years and came back with some savings. But after purchasing a property she needed to go back to Jordan to earn enough to build the house. She returned after two years and within eighteen months had to go back to Jordan to collect more money to finish building the house. This kind of periodical migration is called;
What is circular migration
500
Fung Xi was told that she would be working as a waitress in a Japanese night club. After the labor contractors brought her illegally to Japan they forced her to work as a prostitute. Since she did not have legal documents Xi was not able to go to the police. The term used in migration studies to identify migrants such as Fung Xi is;
What is a Trafficked person
500
The young, pregnant, boarding school girl in Madagascar displayed signs of spirit possession to express her distress. She was experiencing a difficult position in-between;
What are country/city and girlhood/womanhood
500
The 4 major characteristics of South Asian, especially Indian, immigrants in the U.S. and Canada are;
1. Highly educated first wave, mostly professionals 2. Less educated later waves in family business or service industry 3. Considered an immigrant success story 4. Hinduism attempting ritual flexibility to appeal to youth
500
Cultural Anthropologists have gathered information about pastoralists' movements in order to prevent crises and improve basic service delivery in this region of Africa;
What is Sahel
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