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