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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A still works as an HTA today
B receive all of their funding from private organizations
C are primarily from Guanajuato and began arriving there after World War I
D practice circular migration between Guanajuato and Moline
Question #2
A is socially constructed
B it is utilized by countries of the global North to exploit other countries
C refers to size of a phenomenon
D is a social construct without material implications
Question #3
A Ecuadorian migration to Spain began mostly with men
B Many Ecuadorians who could not afford to purchase a home in Spain, bought homes in Ecuador through catalogs in Madrid
C The economic slowdown in Madrid did not effect housing construction in Ecuador
D Ecuadorian men started migrating in large numbers to Madrid in the 1970s
Question #4
A Ecuadorians abroad can have influence on the Ecuadorian government
B Ecuadorian women preceded men due to high demand for domestic work
C Generally, it is the least educated Ecuadorians who migrated to Spain
D Remittances from this group is the second leading contributor to Ecuador’s GNP
Question #5
A they can help finance stadiums and roads/highways in societies of origin
B they are designed solely to help citizens living abroad (i.e. not in Latin America)
C they work on multiple scales
D they are important to transnational practices
Question #6
A remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean are not yet as significant as they are in other world regions
B In countries that experience large exoduses (e.g. Bolivia), remittances are very important to gross national product
C remittances tend to decrease the sense of belonging from those living abroad
D remittances cause workers to drop their national identities and favor an identity associated with their new country
Question #7
A How do local practices play into the process of immigration?
B Is immigration exclusively the outcome of global structures of inequality OR individual decision-making?
C What are the class and racial dynamics underlying immigration?
D Who is more likely to immigrate and why?
E How do labor dynamics influence immigration?
Question #8
A does not question the concept of “the nation”; takes the concept of “nation” for granted.
B is based solely on the work of intellectuals from the global North
C argues that the definitions of “globalization” and “nation” come from a long history of inequalities.
D doesn’t explore inequality
Question #9
A posed that all areas are linked by unequal exchange
B did not discuss the perspective of the global periphery enough
C emerged in ideological opposition to dependency theory
D proposed that capitalism produces development in all areas of the globe
Question #10
A is integral to people’s daily lives
B is clearly separated from processes of colonialism
C typically does not entail power relations
D is about the global and not the local
