Vocabulary
The main type(s) of migration in the book The Arrival.
What is chain migration and/or impelled migration?
This country has long been the top destination for immigrants worldwide.
What is the USA?
The country where most immigrants to the USA are currently from.
What is Mexico?
The immigration station that opened in the late 1800s.
What is Ellis Island?
People from this continent were victims of involuntary migration from 1776 until 1865.
Who are Africans?
Something that stands for something else; often a picture
What is a symbol?
This large country is the origin for most of the world's immigrants. China, India, Mexico, Nigeria
What is India?
Most immigrants in the USA are here legally or illegally?
What is legally? (In fact, 77% of immigrants are here legally.)
The USA is one of the most diverse countries in the world because of...
What is immigration?
In 2017, two executive orders limited travel and immigration from six countries that have the same main religion.
What is Islam?
To use symbols to show something.
What is to symbolize?
There were an estimated 372,000 students from this eastern country in the US in 2020. China, India, Mexico, Nigeria
What is China?
The fraction that represents the population of immigrants in the USA is 1/3, 1/4, or 1/5?
What is 1/5?
Many from this group are refugees who experienced impelled, chain, international, and internal migration around 1975.
Who are the Hmong?
Labor shortages during WWII allowed people from this country to work temporarily in agriculture through the Bracero Program (1942-1964).
What is Mexico?
To take in and understand.
What is to assimilate?
This country bridging Europe and Asia is home to the largest number of refugees in the world. Choices are Bulgaria, Greece, Syria, Turkey
What is Turkey?
The group that is predicted to be the largest group of immigrants to the USA by 2055 is Asian, LatinX, or African?
What is Asian?
These immigrants came to the USA from 1820 -1960 due to the Potato Famine. They were European but were discriminated by others of European origin because they were Catholic.
Who were the Irish?
The 1882 Act barred this group from immigrating to the USA. This was the first act in history to regulate certain immigrant groups to the USA. They began to arrive in the 1850s to work in gold mines, agriculture, garment factories and on the railroads.
Who are the Chinese?
The process in which an individual or a smaller group changes to be like the majority culture.
What is cultural assimilation?
Millions of migrant workers were stranded in parts of this large continent during the height of the Covid pandemic.
What is Africa?
Since 2/22 through 12/22, 1,610 refugees came from this country.
What is Ukraine?
The phobia that means prejudice against people from other countries. Immigration laws were made which created literacy requirements and nationality quotas (limits on numbers of people from particular countries). Western European countries were favored. Name that phobia.
What is xenophobia?
The Lost Boys (not the movie from the '80s) are a group of refugees fleeing civil war in the 1990s from this East African country.
What is Sudan/South Sudan?