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

Correct answer: 6,441 adoptions, with China being the top sending country.

Explanation

This question tests the ability to extract and combine multiple quantitative data points from the text regarding the changing landscape of transnational adoption, a significant form of migration.

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Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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?

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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?

Question 11

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?

Question 12

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?

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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?

Question 30

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

Question 31

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?

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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?

Question 35

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?

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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?

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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?

Question 44

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?

Question 45

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?

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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?

Question 49

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?

Question 50

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