Final I.D.s Flashcards
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Chain Migration
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- sponsoring your family
- movement in which prospective migrants learn of opportunities, are provided with transportation, and have initial accommodation and employment arranged by means of primary social relationships with previous migrants
2
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Mahu
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- Hawaiian and Tahitian third gender; someone who possesses both masculine and feminine characteristics
- also used to describe transgender and gay in contemporary Hawaii
3
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Brain Drain
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- the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.
- ex. Indian doctors, Filipino nurses
4
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Pink collar labor
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- term developed in 1970s to describe jobs primarily held by women
- ex. nurses, school teachers, retail, service
- feminized labor
5
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Filipino nurses
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- highly skilled all over the world
- make high income and send money back home to families
- high demand for nursing educations in the Philippines
- an example of brain drain
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1965 Immigration Act
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- aka Hart-Cellar Immigration and National Act
- abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States
- allowed 20k people per country per year
- created greater racial diversity
- also more class diversity but socioeconomically bimodal
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Decolonization
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- the undoing of colonialism (where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over one or more other territories)
- gives back political power to a country/territory
- but sometimes effects of colonization so deep that it’s hard to decolonize culture, gender, religion, etc.
- ex. Hawaiian cultures/luaus
8
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Cosmetic surgery
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- Asian/Asian American women get surgery to try to meet beauty standards imposed by European beauty standards
- ex. double eyelid surgery, nose job
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Transnational adoption
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- adoption of children born in one nation to parents from another nation
- Harry Holt established a lot of transnational adoption centers in US
- many adoptions from Korea
- adoption parents many times were not screened and checked if suitable parents. Many also forgot to fill out naturalization papers so many children got deported
10
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Amerasians
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- a term coined by the author and activist Pearl S. Buck to describe children of American servicemen and Asian mothers
- significant populations in Philippines because there are the most US /airnaval bases there than in any other country
11
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Camptowns
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- formed around US military bases in South Korea
- bars, restaurants, clubs where American men can have sex with prostitutes
- prostitutes were usually Korean women from poor backgrounds who oftentimes were tricked into prostitution; thought they were signing up for a different job, some trafficked
- women suffered sexual abuse, disease, emotional abuse
- many others married American men and had kids
- exploitation of female Asian sexuality
12
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War brides
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-War bride is a term used in reference to foreign women who married military personnel in times of war or during their military occupations of foreign countries, especially–but not exclusively–during World War I and World War II
13
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Colorism
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- Within-group and between-group prejudice in favor of lighter skin color
- which people are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin color
- color stratification present in all ethnicities
- in many places of the world, people buy products to lighten skin and/or prevent skin from tanning
- papaya soap, visors, masks, other skin bleaching products
14
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Comfort Women
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- women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II
- reasons: maintain morale of Japanese soldiers, keep them loyal, prevent mass rapes, women as body barriers
- ~200,000 women and girls
- 80% from Korea, others from Philippines, Burma, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc.
- 75% did not survive due to disease, violence, starvation
- used younger girls because no transfers of STIs
- were stigmatized for a long time but women are finally speaking out against it - apologies from Japan
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War Brides Act
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- was enacted to allow alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of members of the United States Armed Forces to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants after World War II
- allowed for increased female immigration to US especially from China (Chinese Exclusion Act was still in place)
- many women from European and Asian descent
- also opened up immigration from Japan - helped reconstruct Japanese culture that was lost during interment period
