When a migrant chooses to move, as opposed to being forced.
What is voluntary migration
100
Movement from one region of a country to a different region of the same country.
What is interregional migration
100
Maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the United States from each country during a 1-year period.
What are quotas
100
(From Ukraine to Italy case study) There are no border checks between countries belonging to the ___________ Union.
What is European
100
Chicago Bulls' Center Joakim Noah migrated from this country to the United States for his basketball career.
What is France
200
The expectation that the streets were "paved with gold" was a classic example of a ___ _____ for migration to the United States.
What is a pull factor
200
The internal migration of New Orleans residents as a result of Hurricane Katrina was due to this category of push factor.
What is environmental
200
***DAILY DOUBLE***
Citizens of poor countries who obtain jobs in Western Europe and the Middle East.
What are guest workers
200
In the early 1930s, severe droughts and economic depression pushed many farmers to move west from the ___________, hoping to find work.
What is Dust Bowl
200
The 2009 movie about an old man and a boy scout who migrate to Paradise Falls, Venezuela in a large floating house.
What is Up
300
The number of main eras of migration to the United States.
What is three
300
***DAILY DOUBLE***
The main flow of intraregional migration in developed countries.
What is from older cities to new suburbs.
300
The U.S. government has regarded emigrants from ______ as political refugees since the 1959 revolution that brought the communist government of Fidel Castro to power.
What is Cuba
300
The migration of many Latin American professionals and intellectuals such as doctors, architects, and engineers to the United States. This results in a chronic shortage of these professionals in their home countries.
What is brain drain
300
This band recorded the hit single "Immigrant Song" in 1970.
What is Led Zeppelin
400
The stage of a country's Demographic Transition where international immigration is high.
What is Stage 2
400
The country with the largest number of internal refugees, according to the hardcover textbook.
What is Sudan
400
A U.S. government study in 1911 mirrored popular attitudes when it concluded that immigrants from _______ and _______ were racially inferior. (2 regions)
What is Southern and Eastern Europe
400
(From contemporary geographic tools box) After ruling in favor of New Jersey's claim to Ellis Island, the Supreme Court directed the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to use ________ to delineate the precise boundary between the two states.
What is GIS (geographic information systems)
400
In the film, "The Shawshank Redemption," Andy Dufresne migrates to this country after escaping prison.
What is Mexico
500
More than 50% of US immigrants are clustered in these 4 states.
**Only -200 for missing this question... it's tough!
What is Florida, Texas, California, New York
500
This country encouraged interregional migration when they decided to relocate their capital in 1960.
What is Brazil
500
After the _______ war, Kuwaiti officials expelled many Palestinian guest workers who had sympathized with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
What is the Gulf War
500
The largest numbers of Asians that migrate to the United States are from these four countries.
**Only -300 for missing this question.
What is India, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam
500
The 1990 romantic comedy in which an American woman enters into a sham marriage with a French man so that he can obtain a green card and remain in the U.S.