Migration

According to the description of the 1940 U.S. census form, what change was made regarding racial categorization compared to previous forms?

What was a significant change introduced in the U.S. Census starting from the year 2000 regarding ethnic and racial identification?

For what primary purposes did Chinese immigrants first arrive in large numbers in the United States during the 1850s?

What was the outcome of the 1854 California Supreme Court case People v. Hall regarding the testimony of a Chinese eyewitness?

According to the text, how were the 23 million eastern and southern European immigrants who arrived between 1880 and 1920 generally considered by the dominant U.S. society?

What was the purpose of the National Origin Act passed in 1924?

The GI Bill of Rights provided a wide array of programs to how many soldiers after World War II?

What piece of legislation effectively stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship in Myanmar?

In her book 'From the Ganges to the Hudson,' what process does anthropologist Johanna Lessinger explore regarding immigrants in New York?

What was the reason for the public conflict involving the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (SALGA) and the India Day Parade in New York City until 2010?

In Liisa Malkki's ethnography of Hutu refugees in Tanzania, how did the refugees in the resettlement camp reinforce their sense of a distinct Hutu identity?

The model of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture, where minorities adopt the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and eventually cease to exist as separate groups, is described by what metaphor?

What does the term 'diaspora' refer to, as exemplified by the Eritrean community described in the text?

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed during World War I, is responsible for what outcome that has had lasting consequences for migration and conflict?

What was the estimated number of European immigrants who arrived in Argentina between 1870 and 1914?

What is the concept of the 'global care chain'?

In Pei-chia Lan's study, why do first-generation Taiwanese career women hire transnational migrant domestic workers?

What does Pei-chia Lan call the immigrant domestic workers who dream of escaping poverty through care work abroad but often face exploitation?

In his study of Mexican gay men migrating to the United States, how many men did Héctor Carrillo and his team interview?

What distinguishes the migration motivations of the gay Mexican men in Héctor Carrillo's study from those of heterosexual migrants?

What is the estimated fee that Chinese smugglers charge to bring a person from the Fuzhou area to the United States for restaurant work?

What was the total number of intercountry adoptions to the United States in 2014, and which country was the top 'sending' country?

What is described as a primary attraction for U.S. parents choosing to adopt from China?

What did the 2001 U.S. Child Citizen Act accomplish for children adopted from abroad by U.S. citizens?

During the partition of India and Pakistan in 1946–47, what was the estimated number of women who were abducted?

What percentage of villagers from the Chinese village studied in the text have left China since the early 1980s to seek their fortunes abroad?

What is a primary motivation for young women from the Dominican Republic to engage in sex work with European tourists?

The youth in the ethnically diverse London suburb of Southall use what kinship term to build connections across ethnic and religious boundaries?

What was the population of Flint, Michigan, at its peak in 1960, and what had it dropped to by the time of the water crisis?

How many countries participated in the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference to carve up the African continent into colonies?

The term for a critique of modernization theory which argues that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world system had not changed, is known as what?

In Immanuel Wallerstein's modern world systems analysis, what is the primary role of periphery countries?

What are the increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, such as offshoring and outsourcing, collectively called?

According to the text, what percentage of a U.S. worker's salary do college-educated call center workers in the Philippines earn for the same job?

What is the estimated number of individuals circulating through the Chinese restaurant industry migration system, connected by services on East Broadway in Manhattan, at any given time?

Cultural anthropologist Anna Tsing uses the term 'friction' to describe what aspect of the global economy?

What was the primary mode of migration for millions of Africans between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in the context of the triangle trade?

In the chapter on Race and Immigration, what reason is given for Irish immigrants being seen as an 'inferior race' upon their arrival in the 1840s and 1850s?

What does the text identify as the primary resource extracted from the world's poorer nations today, according to Barbara Ehrenreich?

After the end of colonial rule, what did the Jamaican government have to do to support basic services, leading to a massive external debt?

In the ethnographic study of a Chinese village, what institution did immigrants create in New York to rebuild and strengthen hometown kinship ties?

What was the estimated number of Rohingya refugees who had fled their homes in Myanmar, according to the chapter on Ethnicity and Nationalism?

The text describes the decimation of indigenous populations in North and South America and the Caribbean, combined with the relocation of millions of Africans and the arrival of millions of European immigrants. What was the estimated number of indigenous people who died in this transformation?

What term is used to describe the relocation of factories to places that provide optimal production, infrastructure, and labor conditions as a strategy of flexible accumulation?

According to the text, what is a primary reason that the 'melting pot' metaphor of assimilation has been criticized as not fully representing the U.S. experience?

What does the concept of 'multiculturalism' refer to as a model for ethnic relations in the U.S.?

The massive migration from Algeria to France after independence included which group that was 'repatriated' for their safety?

What is the term for a continued pattern of unequal economic relations between former colonies and colonizing powers despite the formal end of colonial political and military control?

What term did anthropologist Carol Stack use for the individuals who become kin through mutual support networks in her study of impoverished African American communities?

What is the term for the hiring of low-wage laborers in periphery countries to perform jobs previously done in core countries?