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More than 5,000,000 Mexicans legally immigrated to the United States between 1980-2012.

A) True
B) False

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European colonialism stimulated the movement of ___________ to the cities (islands of development) of Southeast Asia where they have become a significant minority population.


A) Africans
B) Central Asians
C) Europeans
D) Chinese

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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The long-term relocation of an individual,household,or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called


A) resettlement.
B) emigration.
C) migration.
D) transmovement.

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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The vast majority of legal agricultural workers in Canada are


A) Canadian.
B) unemployed Americans.
C) Mexicans.
D) European student guest workers.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Recent European immigration has included North Africans to France and Turks to Germany.

A) True
B) False

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Post September 2001,asylum seekers from 33 countries where _______operates were automatically were automatically detained by the US government.


A) ISIS
B) Hezbollah
C) FARC
D) Al-Qaeda

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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The practice of excluding people with criminal records,health problems,or subversive political beliefs from immigrating is referred to as


A) selective immigration.
B) prejudice.
C) asylum refusal.
D) chain migration.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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European migration to colonies reached its peak during this period:


A) 1700-1800.
B) 1800-1835.
C) 1835-1935.
D) post World War II.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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A periodic form of movement that involves a system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal availability of pastures is called:


A) nomadic herding.
B) transhumance.
C) livestock farming.
D) ranching.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's laws of migration?


A) Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration.
B) Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas.
C) The majority of migrants move short distances.
D) The majority of urban migrants are uneducated.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Ravenstein,in his study of migration,suggested that there is an inverse relationship between the volume of migration and the distance between the source and destination.That is,the number of migrants _____ as the distance they know they must travel increases.


A) increases
B) decreases
C) remains the same
D) decreases and then rises

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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In 1990's,the collapse of which of the following European countries produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II?


A) Turkey
B) Yugoslavia
C) Greece
D) Romania

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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When migrants move along or through kinship links,this is called chain migration.

A) True
B) False

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British colonial authorities stimulated migration of people from this region to colonies such as Singapore and Trinidad.


A) Africa
B) South Asia
C) Europe
D) South America

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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