Ethnicity & Migration

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group

Question 2

ethnicity

Answer 2

a sense of historical, cultural and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group

Question 3

ethnic cleansing

Answer 3

efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

the process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as a separate group

Question 5

Multiculturalism

Answer 5

A pattern of ethnic relations in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture and yet retain an ethnic culture

Question 6

transnationalism

Answer 6

the practice of maintaining active participation in social, economic, religious, and political spheres across national borders

Question 7

refugee

Answer 7

a person who has been forced to move beyond his or her national borders because of persecution, armed conflict or natural disasters.

Question 8

Nationalism

Answer 8

the desire of an ethnic community to create and or maintain a nation state

Question 9

State

Answer 9

an autonomous regional structure of political, economic and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory

Question 10

Nation- state

Answer 10

a political entity located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people

Question 11

nation

Answer 11

a term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangably with nation-state

Question 12

Imagined communities

Answer 12

the invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never meet
-Bennedict Anderson

Question 13

Benedict Anderson

Answer 13

• imagined communities

- people that will never meet

Question 14

Ethnic boundary marker

Answer 14

a practice or belief such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion used to signify who is in the group and who is not

• Fredrik Barth

Question 15

Fredrik Barth

Answer 15

• ethnic boundary marker

Question 16

Push and pull

Answer 16

the forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country

Question 17

What are the four types of immigrants?

Answer 17

Labor migrants, professional, entrepenuar, and refugees

Question 18

ethnography

Answer 18

writing things down and research