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WorksheetsMigration and Immigration
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 29mins
How are some countries in Southwest Asia and North Africa handling concerns about demographic consequences due to changing gender roles?
These countries only allow women who are married to emigrate with their husbands.
These countries actively encourage women to emigrate on their own.
These countries are legally barring women from emigrating.
These countries permit only women who are providers to emigrate.
These countries are removing regulations about who is permitted to emigrate.
A large population competing for limited employment is an example of which push or pull factor?
Political pull factor
Economic push factor
Environmental pull factor
Environmental push factor
Economic pull factor
Which of the following is an example of transnational migration?
A woman and her son move from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles, California.
Two brothers move from Canada's Atlantic coast to Quebec, Canada.
Many Syrians are internally displaced because of the civil war.
A man headed to Chicago stops in Denver to earn money for a few years.
A community of nomads in Africa are regarded as stateless by African nations.
Which of the following is an example of an intervening opportunity?
On his way to New York City, a migrant takes a permanent job in New Jersey.
A migrant is denied asylum at the U.S. border.
Earthquake damage dissuades a migrant from staying in Thailand.
A refugee is detained in Myanmar.
A migrant is jailed for participating in pro-democracy activities in a neighboring country.
According to the distance decay model, to where are refugees most likely to relocate?
A neighboring country
A distant country
An unfamiliar country
A rural area in a distant country
An urban area in a distant country
Which term best describes the idea that, from 1950 to 2050, the percentage of the world's population living in cities will increase by about 38 percent?
Transhumance
Environmental pull factor
Transmigration
Urbanization
Distance decay
In recent years, why have fewer refugees been able to repatriate?
They do not have the proper documentation.
The refugee camps are better for supporting their long-term needs.
More refugees have fallen victim to human trafficking and cannot escape.
Asylum countries offer refugees better situations than home countries.
Ongoing conflicts persist in home countries.
Which of the following countries had the largest number of internally displaced persons in 2017?
Colombia
Iraq
Syria
Ukraine
Yemen
Why do internally displaced persons remain within their country's border?
They don't want to spend money.
They can rely on government protection.
They stay to avoid international violence.
They hope that the conflicts will subside.
They receive more attention than refugees.
Which time span had the highest number of Asian immigrants arriving in the United States?
1880-1889
1900-1909
1930-1939
1990-1999
2000-2009
What type of migration plays a strong role as Somali communities grow in the United States?
Transhumance
Chain migration
Step migration
Rural-to-urban migration
Circular migration
Concerns over spreading communism resulted in a U.S.-led war in Laos, fought primarily by the Hmong people in the 1960s and 1970s. Which of the following best describes why the Hmong in Laos became asylum seekers?
The war greatly limited the resources in the region.
The Laos government threatened any Hmong who sided with communists.
The Laos government threatened any Hmong who sided with the United States.
The Hmong people wanted to practice Christianity.
A tsunami devastated the region's agriculture.
What is a shortage of people trained in a particular industry known as?
Brain drain
Skills gap
Intervening obstacle
Distance decay
Economic push factor
What is an example of brain drain?
Remittances made up 10 percent of the Philippines' gross domestic product in 2017.
Thirty-five percent of Miami's population is of Cuban descent.
There are not enough doctors in Africa to meet population healthcare needs.
Migrants who repatriate to a developing country often bring higher expectations.
A large influx of migrants causes a society to change.
What is an example of relocation diffusion?
Drumming used to communicate among tribes in Africa
The combined Mexican and American cuisines known as Tex-Mex
The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia
The early belief in China that calligraphy was the highest visual art form
Guest workers sending remittances home to family members
Which of the following is an overall trend in migration?
From communist countries to democratic countries
From more economically developed countries to less economically developed countries
Between countries with similar economies
From warm-climate countries to cold-climate countries
From less economically developed countries to more economically developed countries
A person living in Town A moves three times, as shown in the diagram, and settles in Town D. This is an example of
Chain migration
Step migration
Distance decay
Intervening obstacle
Intervening opportunity
In some countries, a foreign person who is given temporary permission to live and work in a host country is known as
guest worker
temporary laborer
host laborer
interim worker
provisional laborer
A refugee is defined as a person
who willingly left his or her homeland for better opportunities in another country
who illegally resides in a country other than his or her homeland
who works outside of his or her home country
who flees their home country due to war or persecution
who was deported from a country back to his or her homeland
Which of the following is NOT one of Ravenstein's migration laws?
Most migration is rural to urban
Migrants traveling long distances will likely settle in a big city
People in rural areas are more migratory than city dwellers
Most migration is step migration
Most international migrants are young women
Which type of diffusion is migration considered?
relocation diffusion
expansion diffusion
stimulus diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
All of the following are examples of forced migration EXCEPT
the Trail of Tears in the early 19th century
the Atlantic slave trade
the California gold rush in the mid-19th century
the Irish Potato Famine from 1846 to 1850
the Japanese interment camps during World War II
An example of _______ is the migration of lawyers and architects to the United States after they have received years of government - financed schooling and training in India.
brain drain
chain migration
chain drain
net migration
step migration
A person who flees quickly in order to stay alive but does not leave their country would be considered
refugess
asylum seeker
internally displaced person
internationally displaced person
cultural migrant
You are planning to move from your hometown to Nashville. Along the way, you stop in Auburn, Alabama to visit a relative and fall in love with the city! You decide to stay and make Auburn our new home. This is an example of
intervening opportunity
distance decay
involuntary migration
push-pull factors
transhumance
Which of the following is the primary reason people migrate.
Economic opportunity
Cultural oppression
Overpopulation
pollution
Family
The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of
brain drain
chain migration
net migration
internal migration
counterurbanizationn
The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China, and DMZ would be considered
intervening obstacle
intervening opportunity
step migration
chain migration
expansion diffusion
The act of migrants sending money to family in their home country is termed
alimony
allowance
subsidence
remittance
restitution
All types of movement from one location to another, whether temporary or permanent over short or long distances
mobility
Temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis
circulation
The permanent movement of people from one place to another
human migration
Movement away from a location.
emigration
Movement to a location
immigration
The difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location
net migration
Predicts the interaction between two or more places
gravity model
A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location
pull factor
A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
push factor
A country with a net-in migration has
More immigrants than emigrants
More emigrants than immigrants
An equal number of immigrants and emigrants
Not enough information to answer this question
Who famously created a set of "Laws of Migration"?
Ernst Ravenstein
Wilbur Zelinsky
Thomas Malthus
Carl Sauer
Which of these is an environmental push factor?
Heavy pollution
Outbreaks of violence
Pleasing aesthetics
Lack of jobs
Pull factors:
Incentivize people to migrate to a country
Disincentivizes people to migrate to a country
Disincentivizes people to have more children
Incentivizes people to have more children
According to Ravenstein, who is most likely to migrate?
Older married couples
Parents with children
Young, single men
Widowed women
