Navigation » List of Schools » California State University, Northridge » Geography » Geography 322 – Geography of Latin America » Fall 2019 » Quiz 14 Transnational Latin America Movements, Places and Displacements
Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A practice circular migration between Guanajuato and Moline
B are primarily from Guanajuato and began arriving there after World War I
C still works as an HTA today
D receive all of their funding from private organizations
Question #2
A it is utilized by countries of the global North to exploit other countries
B is socially constructed
C refers to size of a phenomenon
D is a social construct without material implications
Question #3
A Ecuadorian men started migrating in large numbers to Madrid in the 1970s
B Ecuadorian migration to Spain began mostly with men
C The economic slowdown in Madrid did not effect housing construction in Ecuador
D Many Ecuadorians who could not afford to purchase a home in Spain, bought homes in Ecuador through catalogs in Madrid
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 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 #5
A they work on multiple scales
B they can help finance stadiums and roads/highways in societies of origin
C they are important to transnational practices
D they are designed solely to help citizens living abroad (i.e. not in Latin America)
Question #6
A remittances cause workers to drop their national identities and favor an identity associated with their new country
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 to Latin America and the Caribbean are not yet as significant as they are in other world regions
Question #7
A Who is more likely to immigrate and why?
B How do labor dynamics influence immigration?
C Is immigration exclusively the outcome of global structures of inequality OR individual decision-making?
D What are the class and racial dynamics underlying immigration?
E How do local practices play into the process of immigration?
Question #8
A is based solely on the work of intellectuals from the global North
B doesn’t explore inequality
C argues that the definitions of “globalization” and “nation” come from a long history of inequalities.
D does not question the concept of “the nation”; takes the concept of “nation” for granted.
Question #9
A proposed that capitalism produces development in all areas of the globe
B did not discuss the perspective of the global periphery enough
C posed that all areas are linked by unequal exchange
D emerged in ideological opposition to dependency theory
Question #10
A is integral to people’s daily lives
B is clearly separated from processes of colonialism
C is about the global and not the local
D typically does not entail power relations
