Integrating Refugees and Immigrants

When people move permanently to a new country as refugees or immigrants they tend to:

• Cut all ties with their place of origin

• Keep ties with their culture of origin

• Stop talking to the people from their native country

• Avoid developing attachment with their place of residence

What are transnational ties, in the context of the text?

• How migrants make a link between home and host country

• A total lack of assimilation of the host country practices

• The connections between different countries

The Syrian family that appears on the documentary is pursuing what strategy of interaction with the Netherlands culture?

• Assimilation

• Separation

• Marginalization

• Integration

In East Germany, many native residents don’t want immigrants to be allowed in the country for fear of losing their culture. Their attitude may end up forcing immigrants to live in their “own bubble”. This type of interaction is called:

• Separation

• Integration

• Marginalization

• Assimilation

What is "identity re-negotiation"?

• Is when the migrant forgets all about his previous way of life

• Is when a migrant has to start dressing and eating like the people in the new country

• Is when a migrant can't see himself anymore as before, but as a transformed person

• Is when a migrant negotiates his beliefs and values

According to some authors cited in the text, what is it that make people aware of their own cultural identity?

• Their national holidays

• Studying about the history of his/her country

• Being in contact with people from other cultures

What is NOT an example of actions that reduce the difficulty to create ties in the new place?

• Meeting only people from the home country

• Being part of the community

• Contributing to the community development

• Learning the host country’s language

Saleem (the Syrian family's father) mentions two difficult aspects to overcome as refugees in the Netherlands. Choose the two that apply:

• How to find jobs

• Speak well Dutch language

• Find good neighbors

• The different weather

What is NOT a symptom of homesickness:

• Financial insufficiency

• Loss of appetite

• Avoiding new relationships

• Depression

There is growing _______ in East Germany, according to the documentary.

• Exploitation

• Inequalities

• Xenophobia

• Deforestation