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