Final Exam Review

Question 1

Transatlantic Slave Trade

Answer 1

• Forced Migration
• Scale: 12 million individuals
• Modern cultural, economic, and political resonance

Question 2

History Migration to US

Answer 2

1880-1910 Northern Parts

1930-now coasts (San Diego, Miami, Texas)

Question 3

UN Definition of International Migrant:

Answer 3

an international migrant is a person who stays outside their usual country of residence for at least one year

Question 4

How Many international migrants globally?

Answer 4

~200 million

Question 5

How many refugees?

Answer 5

~9 million

Question 6

Major Migrant-receiving countries:

Answer 6

20% in US, others in order: Russia, Germany, Ukraine, India

Question 7

Harder to know but, where are migrants sent from?

Answer 7

35 million chinese, 20 million Indians, 8 million Filipinos

Question 8

Global Patterns of Migration:

Answer 8

• South to North

- Poor to Rich

Question 9

Regional Patterns of Migration:

Answer 9

• Asia to Gulf States
• South Africa
• Intra-Caribbean

Question 10

Feminization of Migration

Answer 10

• 50 % of global migrants are women

Question 11

What is Ideology?

Answer 11

-help organize tremendous complexity of human experiences into fairly simple claims that serve as a guide and compass for social and political action

Question 12

What is Globalization?

Answer 12

A set of social processes of intensifying global interdependence

Question 13

What is Globalism

Answer 13

Ideologies that endow the concept of globalization with particular values and meaning

Question 14

Market Globalism

Answer 14

Fre-market norms and neoliberal meaning

Question 15

Justice Globalism

Answer 15

an alternative vision of globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice

Question 16

Religious Globalism

Answer 16

struggles against both market globalism and justice globalism, seeking to mobilize a religious community in defense of religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under sever attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism

Question 17

What is the domant Globalism?

Answer 17

Market globalism

Question 18

Alter-globalization:

Answer 18

they provide an alternative vision that resists the dominance of neoliberalism and free-market principles

Question 19

Five Claims of Market Globalism:

Answer 19

• Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets
• Globalization is inevitable and irreversible
• Nobody is in charge of globalization
• Globalization benefits everyone
• Globalization furthers the spread of democracy worldwide

Question 20

What is Justice Globalism dedicated to?

Answer 20

• A more equitable relationship between north and south
• Environmental protection
• Fair trade and int’l labor rights
• Human rights
• Women’s issues

Question 21

According to justice globalism, what does neoliberalism to?

Answer 21

creates global inequality, unemployment, environment degradation, weakened social welfare

Question 22

Borders are:

Answer 22

contested, fluid, simultaneously opening and closing

Question 23

Economic Integration is..

Answer 23

The elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers to the flow of goods, services, and factors of production between a group of nations, or different parts of the same nation

Question 24

Malthus checks on population:

Answer 24

death, famine, birth control, plague, war, misery

Question 25

I.P.A.T. =

Answer 25

(I) Human Impact on the environment = (P) Population * (A) Affluence * (T) Technology

Question 26

Neo-Malthusianism:

Answer 26

advocates control of population growth

Question 27

Environmental Kuznet Curve:

Answer 27

natural cycle of inequality occurs, driven by market forces which at first increase inequality, and then decrease it after a certain average income is attained

Question 28

Green Tax:

Answer 28

Individuals or firms participate in “greener” behavior by avoiding more costly alternatives

Question 29

Cap and Trade:

Answer 29

Total amount of pollutant or other “bad” is limited and tradable rights to pollute are distributed to polluters

Question 30

Jevon’s paradox:

Answer 30

increases in energy production efficiency leads to more not less consumption

Question 31

Externalities

Answer 31

An effect of a purchase or use decision by one set of parties on others who did not have a choice and whose interests were not taken into account

Question 32

World Bank:

Answer 32

An international organization dedicated to providing financing, advice and research to developing nations to aid their economic advancement.

Question 33

IMF

Answer 33

an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world’s currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Question 34

WTO

Answer 34

An international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably, and freely as possible.

Question 35

Cultural Hybridity

Answer 35

societies that emerge from cultural contacts of European “explorers” and those “explored”

Question 36

Hegemony

Answer 36

leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

Question 37

Cultural Relativism

Answer 37

cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context.

Question 38

Ethnocentrism

Answer 38

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture