This concept speaks to the networks and connections immigrants possess that could be translated into employment or a higher standard of living or in Dr. Garcia's term, "the ability to call upon scarce resources by virtue of group membership."
What is Social Capital?
100
Better opportunity and a promising new life are components of this factor which causes migration.
What is pull factor?
100
This theory encompasses the cost-benefit decision making.
What is neoclassical economics?
100
This theorist is credited to having create the world systems theory
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
100
This revolution heightened the importance of the border by converting the U.S. communities into locations of political refuge?
What is the Mexican Revolution?
200
Just as students invest in education to improve their standard of living, immigrants invest in this to increase their personal and work lives.
What is Human Capital?
200
Also a term used in economics, this phrase speaks to the immigrants process of weighing their options before immigrating.
What is cost/benefit?
200
This theory takes global market into consideration.
What is Worlds System theory?
200
By using New Economics of Labor Migration, a collective household also known as this, is taken accounted for.
What are families?
200
This program recruited and brought over 4.5 million Mexican men to the U.S. to work in agriculture in 1942.
What is the Bracero Program?
300
These sectors speak to the types of jobs available in our economy, one specializing in professionalized work and the other in hard-labor.
What is primary and secondary?
300
Low wages and high employment are examples of this type of factor from an immigrant’s country of origin.
What is a push factor?
300
This theory sees the migrant as a part of a larger household or community as opposed to an individual.
What is New Economics Labor of Migration?
300
Teenagers, as well as this people group, used to take the low-wage jobs, now filled by immigrants.
Who are women?
300
This government organization became large and powerful by being militarized due to policies enacted between 1986 and 1996 to be bureaucratically beneficial to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
What is border patrol?
400
This two word concept relates social status to a job.
What is structural inflation?
400
Economists assume people are this, which is why they can study people's behaviors...similarly, most people assume that immigrants are as well, as they participate in cost-benefit behavior.
What is rational?
400
This theory, with dual names, addresses the demand high and low level jobs with little opportunities in between.
What is segmented labor market/ dual labor market theory?
400
Although Mexico was colonized by this country, because of cultural globalization, Mexicans speak English, study at U.S. universities, and follow U.S. consumer practices because of cultural links.
What is Spain?
400
The creation of the IRCA, created this form for employers to present to investigators when asked, consequently, this form led to the creation of the black market for fraudulent papers.
What is the I-9 form?
500
Just as we would a portfolio, immigrants do this to their household labor to reduce risk.
What is diversify?
500
Core countries seek raw materials and land to grow profit in these countries, where pre-market societies exist.
What are peripheral countries?
500
In Neoclassical economics, this is the main reason why people migrate.
What are wages?
500
This continent took 80-90 years to transition from high levels of emigration to being importers of labor
What is Europe?
500
The authors of the book titled it Beyond Smoke & Mirrors as a metaphor already used by Dan Baum, about this war the U.S. is fighting.