Immigration
What is the term for a child of an immigrant born in the U.S.?
A second generation.
The unique ways of city life is called what?
Urbanism
Provide an example of a problem that is abundant in concentrated poverty neighborhoods.
- Joblessness
- Violence
- Segregation
- House market discrimination
Name a documentation the IRIS helps acquire.
- Green Cards - Naturalization
- Visa - Deportation Counseling
- Asylum - Family Petition/Follow to Join
Name a reason why people can end up homeless.
-Lack of housing
- Income & Home affordability
- History of health issues
- Escaping violence
- Effect of racial disparities
Name one push AND one pull factor.
Push: Pull:
- Violence - Jobs/Opportunities
- Oppression - Healthcare
- Poverty - Education
The definition, various types of connections that people form with others, describes what term?
Social Network
What is white flight?
White people migrating from city neighborhoods to suburban areas.
What is the difference between a refugee and an asylee?
Refugee - A person who's fled their country of origin and cannot return applies for refugee status.
Asylee - A person who applies for asylum at the border or seeks protection from the country they are currently present in.
What is literal and imminent homelessness?
Literal - People living on the street
Imminent - Risk of losing housing very soon
What is the Great Migration?
Movement of over six million of African Americans, from 1900 to 1970, from rural areas into cities.
True or False: This is the first occurrence of over half the world’s population living in urban areas.
True
What 3 properties shape cities according to Logan and Molotch?
Politics, power, profit
What document did the U.S. sign to aid refugee protection?
The 1951 UN Refugee Convention
What is the year-to-year % rise in homelessness in CT?
14%
What is legal violence?
The fear and rough treatment immigrants experience at the hands of law enforcement because of immigration policies.
Name a megacity.
- Delhi, India
- Shanghai, China
- Paris, France
- São Paolo, Brazil
- Lagos, Nigeria
- New York City
What term discusses the difference between how the poor and the rich live?
Economic segregation
What did atty. Doyle say was the process thumbnail?
1. Global: 1st stage of application paperwork; ultimate authority
2. National: U.S. agrees to resettle and pledge funds to assist.
3. Local: Non prof. (IRIS); "subtracted" to help with things like legal assistance, housing, filling out documents.
What is the name of the organization that Beach works at with the mission of preventing and ending homelessness?
Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness
What research method did Isabel Wilkins use to better comprehend mass migration?
Oral history tracking
Answer one of these:
1. The were __ megacities in 1990.
or
2. There were __ megacities in 2016.
1. 10
2. 31
Name an example of redlining.
Mortgage Lending
Insurance Practices
Government Policies
Infrastructure Investment
Consequences to communities
Name one of Doyle's human stories.
1. The wife of asylee stricken with cancer in Sri Lanka.
2. Client tortured by Saddam Hussein's forces in Iraq.
3. Afghan couple trapped in Kabul for almost a year.
4. U.S. Army drones helped father and 7 kids escape Afghanistan
What 2 categories (# and name) are the main focus of the organization?
1 - Literal homelessness
4 - Fleeing domestic violence