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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A typically does not entail power relations
B is integral to people’s daily lives
C is clearly separated from processes of colonialism
D is about the global and not the local
Question #2
A created hometown associations (HTAs) but they have little to no contact with other HTAs in the US
B receive all of their funding from private organizations
C practice circular migration between Guanajuato and Moline
D are primarily from Guanajuato and began arriving there after World War I
Question #3
A is a social construct without material implications
B refers to size of a phenomenon
C it is utilized by countries of the global North to exploit other countries
D is socially constructed
Question #4
A Many Ecuadorians who could not afford to purchase a home in Spain, bought homes in Ecuador through catalogs in Madrid
B Ecuadorian women living abroad challenge the social reproduction of their homes in Ecuador
C Ecuadorian men started migrating in large numbers to Madrid in the 1970s
D The economic slowdown in Madrid did not effect housing construction in Ecuador
Question #5
A Ecuadorians abroad can have influence on the Ecuadorian government
B Generally, it is the least educated Ecuadorians who migrated to Spain
C Ecuadorian women preceded men due to high demand for domestic work
D Remittances from this group is the second leading contributor to Ecuador’s GNP
Question #6
A they work on multiple scales
B they are important to transnational practices
C they can help finance stadiums and roads/highways in societies of origin
D they are designed solely to help citizens living abroad (i.e. not in Latin America)
Question #7
A remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean are not yet as significant as they are in other world regions
B remittances are an important reason why countries try to keep citizens living abroad involved in national politics
C In countries that experience large exoduses (e.g. Bolivia), remittances are very important to gross national product
D remittances tend to decrease the sense of belonging from those living abroad
Question #8
A Is immigration exclusively the outcome of global structures of inequality OR individual decision-making?
B What are the class and racial dynamics underlying immigration?
C How do local practices play into the process of immigration?
D How do labor dynamics influence immigration?
E Who is more likely to immigrate and why?
Question #9
A challenges historically modernist notions of both “nation” and “globalization”
B is based solely on the work of intellectuals from the global North
C takes the concept of “nation” for granted.
D is conceptually identical to globalization
Question #10
A was based on the perspective of those living in the global periphery
B promoted socialist change
C focused exclusively on internal, i.e. not global, exploitation
D emerged in ideological opposition to dependency theory
