Chapter 12

Question 1

What are the mobile populations of human history?

Answer 1

Foragers, horticulturists and pastoralists.

Question 2

What proportion of people are immigrants?

Answer 2

1/7

Question 3

What do anthropologists pay attention to with migration?

Answer 3

• class, gender, race and ethnicity
• Pattern of migration
• Historical and political context of migration
• Local and global perspectives of migration

Question 4

What is the diaspora population?

Answer 4

People that all have a shared sense of belonging to a place/region but live elsewhere.

Question 5

What is the impact of neoliberal economic policies?

Answer 5

• free market
• borrowing money from multinational aid agencies
• production for global market
• price drop
• debt
• structural adjustment policies

Question 6

What are labour migrants?

Answer 6

Workers who more temporarily to work, not allowed to stay permanently bc of visa.

Question 7

What is circular migration?

Answer 7

Migrants move between work sites, often across national borders

Question 8

What is chain migration? Example?

Answer 8

When new immigrants attract to their friends and families to join them in a new location. Dominicans in America.

Question 9

What is institutional migration?

Answer 9

• monks/nuns, the elderly/soldiers/development workers
• prisoners
• students of boarding schools and universities
• the canadian residential schools system for the first nations people

Question 10

What are the reasons behind inclusion of migrants?

Answer 10

Economic interest

Question 11

What are the reasons behind exclusion of migrants?

Answer 11

lifeboat mentality, working class racism, religion

Question 12

What is migration syndrome?

Answer 12

It is a psychological phase which is developed among people in developing countries and they start believing that only migration to the developed countries can improve their life.

Question 13

What are refugees?

Answer 13

Victims of persecution forced to leave their home country and move to another nation.

Question 14

What does geneva convention say about refugees?

Answer 14

If someone asks for asyum they should be allowed to move to somewhere safe

Question 15

What are the rights of refugees?

Answer 15

• be economically self-reliant
• right to work (article 17)
• right to self employment and right to establish businesses (article 18)
• move freely within the country
• apply for citizenship

Question 16

Who are internally displaced persons?

Answer 16

People who have to move within their home country?

Question 17

What were the main groups of immigrants that came to Canada in 70s?

Answer 17

Haitians, Sikhs, Vietnamese

Question 18

What were the main groups of immigrants that came to Canada in 90s?

Answer 18

Bosnian refugees, Soviet jewry.

Question 19

What are astronauts?

Answer 19

Business people who fly between cities for work purposes

Question 20

What is a transnational country? Examples?

Answer 20

Country with large population of people living outside of its borders
-ex. Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, DR, Portugal

Question 21

Tell me about Haitians cane cutters in DR.

Answer 21

Had an agreement that they would do temporary work migration but it is not in effect anymore. Still happens illegally or privately.

Question 22

What are the two views on haitian cane cutters?

Answer 22

• this system is neo-slavery and violating human rights (structurist)
• not slavery bc its voluntary migration (human agency)

Question 23

What type of migrant are Maya of guatemala?

Answer 23

Internally displaced, experienced genocide, exploited by spanish.

Question 24

What are recent immigration trends?”

Answer 24

• globalization
• acceleration
• feminization

Question 25

What are the three main groups of new asian immigrants?

Answer 25

1975 elite, boat people, ethnic chinese.