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Using a three-tiered approach, Marcel Mauss argues that we must understand bodily actions from a biological, psychological, and this, third, element. 

What is social?

100

Described by both Mauss and Wacquant, this term refers to something that is more than just a habit or custom of the body, includes acquired ability, and varies between individuals and among cultures.

What is habitus?

100

Freeman likens the surveillance experienced by the women doing off-shore data work in Designing Women to this concept introduced by Bentham and later written about by Foucault.

What is the panopticon?

100

When companies in the developed world move factories to export processing zones in the developing world, they are doing this. 

What is offshoring?

100

Abandoned life jackets and backpacks from sea and land border crossings represent artifacts for this anthropological subfield.

What is the archaeology of migration?

200

"I think, therefore I am," the famous words of 17th-century thinker, Descartes, is the epitome of this way of thinking about the mind and body.

What is mind/body duality?

200

This term refers to a collectively held illusion amongst a group of people, such as the boxers in Pugs at Work, which allows them to assess and ignore risks in order to continue doing a precarious or dangerous activity.

What is collusio?

200

Dr. Parla described three impacts of Time-Space Compression as a feature of globalization, including this impact, as illustrated by the example of the blue checkmarks which mean a message has been read on WhatsApp.

What are changing norms?

200

Because of the gender myth that women are "better suited" for data input work, Freeman calls it this kind of work. 

What is pink-collar?

200

Reasons such as political instability, poverty, lack of opportunities, natural disasters, climate change, and separated families are this kind of factor, which force people to emigrate. 

What is a push factor?

300

In the era of the coronavirus, Hauser argues that this typical greeting is "dead," with other gestures, like the elbow bump or bowing stepping in to take its place.

What is the handshake?

300

When Abu-Lughod describes the ways her gender, ethnicity, and other parts of her identity impact her ethnographic work in Veiled Sentiments, she is describing this important anthropological concept. 

What is positionality?

300

Offshoring and Outsourcing are two examples of this feature of globalization as discussed by Dr. Parla.

What is flexible accumulation?

300

When corporations shift part of their work to employees in other parts of the world, they are doing this. 

What is outsourcing?

300

As discussed in the Nolan article, this is an important but often unavailable service for Indigenous asylum seekers at their asylum trials in the US. 

What is language translation?

400

Wacquant argues that this type of capital is a fourth category in addition to Bourdieu's original categories of economic, social, and cultural capital. 

What is bodily capital?

400

This is the name of the concept that migrants maintain active participation in social, economic, religious, and political spheres in both their countries of origin and their country of arrival. 

What is transnationalism?

400

As opposed to assimilation, this concept refers to a mix of the global and the local, as exemplified in the many varieties of food served by McDonald's around the world. 

What is glocalization?

400

"The worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods and ideas within and across national borders" is a more neutral definition of this concept from anthropologist Kenneth Guest.

What is globalization?

400

Both problematic, definitions to oppose the terms refugee and migrants include the trope of victimization/humanitarianism for refugees and this trope for migrants. 

What is criminalization/securitization?

500

"To get frozen," "working the body," and "keeping clean" are all examples from Wacquant's Pugs at Work of this kind of term.

What is emic?

500

Reasons such as safety and stability, job prospects and higher wages, potential education opportunities, and family reunification are this kind of factor, which force a person to immigrate. 

What is offshoring?

500

Similar to Massey's idea of power-geometry, this impact of Time-Space compression describes the way globalization impacts different people and areas in unequal ways, advantaging some and disadvantaging others.

What is unevenness?

500

Representing the largest source of income for many developing countries, this is the name for the part of migrants' earnings that are sent back to their home country in the form of cash or goods to support their families. 

What are (migrant) remittances?

500

Due to the fact that despite claiming a zero-tolerance border policy, many countries do not routinely enforce these laws in order to exploit cheap labor from migrants, Coutin argues that this word is more appropriate for describing the situation than deportation.

What is deportability?

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