Chapter 10: Immigrant Families: Resilience Through Adversity

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. According to the Department of Homeland Security, where did most immigrants residing in the United States originate from in 2017?

A. Europe

B. Central America

C. Mexico

D. South or East Asia

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The most prominent reason for immigration to the United States is ______.

A. religious freedom

B. fear of persecution

C. family reunification

D. economic mobility

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. ______ such as belief systems, organizational patterns, and communication patterns interact with broader sociostructural factors and influence immigrant families’ adaption processes.

A. Resilience factors

B. Family processes

C. Protective factors

D. Cognitive processes

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Family Resilience Framework

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. According to the text, what is the difference between a challenge and a crisis?

A. Challenges are stressors that families can adapt to without formal assistance; crises are acute challenges that cannot be adapted to without formal assistance.

B. Crises involve a point in time in which stressors have accumulated beyond the level of individual adaptability; challenges are chronic stressors.

C. Challenges are short-term situations that require adaptation; crises are chronic situations that require adjustment.

D. Crises are short-term situations that require adaptation; challenges are stressors that families cannot adapt to.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Family Resilience Framework

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What does Walsh (2006) mean by referring to family resilience as “bouncing forward?” The phrase ______.

A. focuses on the family’s progression in the future

B. means that resilient families are always looking ahead

C. means that optimistic families are resilient families

D. focuses on the family’s overall happiness as a protective factor

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Resilience Framework

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Olga and her children are currently undocumented but her sister and brother-in-law are documented immigrants in the United States. Olga’s newborn child is a U.S. citizen with an undocumented parent and undocumented siblings. What aspect of the immigrant experience does this exemplify?

A. that the United States does not adequately enforce migration law

B. that migration for family reunification is common

C. that many immigrant families are mixed status families

D. that women frequently overstay their visas because of family connections

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Complexities of Legality

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What does the term “liminal” refer to when applying the phrase “liminal legality” to migrants? It means that ______.

A. an individual is poised to lose their legal status as a citizen

B. an individual can claim legal status in more than one country

C. an individual’s status lies somewhere between documented and undocumented

D. an individual has legal residency by virtue of being born on American soil

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Liminal Legality

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. There are approximately ______ million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, including those without any legal documents and those who overstayed their visas.

A. 11

B. 24

C. 30

D. 51

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Undocumented Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Among refugees who come to the United States, which “sending country” is the most common point of origin?

A. Syria

B. the Democratic Republic of Congo

C. Russia

D. China

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Refugees

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. What are the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorders within refugee populations?

A. eating disorders, panic disorders, schizophrenia

B. bipolar disorder, anxiety, mood disorders

C. personality disorders, OCD, acute paranoia

D. PTSD, depression, anxiety

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Refugees

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Both the maintenance of a cultural identity and ______ are strong predictors of personal well-being for refugees.

A. adherence to religious values

B. levels of acculturation

C. political activism

D. social networks that include non-refugees

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Refugees

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Zahra works as a university professor. Each month, she sends part of her salary to her parents living in Iran. What term describes this monthly transfer of money?

A. drafting

B. remittance

C. tax fraud

D. financial network

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Staying Connected

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. A family member transferring money through a mobile banking app is conducting a ______ remittance.

A. scheduled

B. domestic

C. formal

D. registered

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Staying Connected

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. Yuning values her culture of origin. She speaks Cantonese at home and sends her children to a charter school that provides instruction in Cantonese. She also enjoys participating in American holidays, including hosting a barbeque for Independence Day. Clearly, she is engaging with the norms of the dominant culture while maintaining her culture of origin. Which category of acculturation applies to Yuning?

A. integration

B. assimilation

C. separation

D. marginalization

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Acculturation

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Children in immigrant families are more likely than those in U.S.-born families to have parents ______.

A. who are divorced

B. without a high school diploma

C. who are not married to each other

D. with chronic health problems

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immigrant Children and Youth

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Approximately ______ of children of immigrant families live in households that qualify for some type of U.S. government aid, compared to one third of children with U.S.-born parents.

A. 10%

B. 23%

C. 50%

D. 75%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Immigrant Children and Youth

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Margarita is 15. She drops her younger siblings off at school, attends school herself, then picks them up from school and walks home with them. She supervises their homework and begins preparing dinner so that when her parents get home, dinner, which she prepares most nights, will be ready quickly. What best describes what is happening to Margarita in this situation?

A. dual role stress

B. emotional poverty

C. neglect

D. parentification

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Adjustment of Children of Immigrant Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. Research indicates that children from families in which English is not spoken tend to have ______.

A. lower levels of delinquent behavior

B. smaller social networks

C. higher IQs

D. lower levels of reading and math achievement

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Adjustment of Children of Immigrant Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. The ______ model suggests that parents invest time, resources, and emotional capital in their young children, and the expectation is that children will reciprocate in kind when the parents need assistance in old age.

A. lifelong accommodation

B. family affiliation

C. support bank

D. life course

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Familial Unity and Reciprocity

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Neighborhoods populated with people of similar cultural backgrounds are called ______.

A. proximal neighborhoods

B. ethnic enclaves

C. cultural strongholds

D. migrant pockets

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Isolation

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which hypothesis posits that those who chose to immigrate tend to be healthier than those who remain in their countries of origin?

A. the positive immigrant selectivity hypothesis

B. the point of origin hypothesis

C. the health-driven movement hypothesis

D. the Mediterranean hypothesis

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Immigrant Families Physical and Mental Health

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. While acculturation and premigration stressors have been shown to negatively impact the health of aging immigrants, studies have shown that perceived support from close relatives and ______ buffers the effects of immigration-related factors on health.

A. living in cohesive neighborhoods

B. maintaining a network of friends

C. returning to their country of origin regularly

D. having a primary care doctor who speaks their preferred language

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Aging Immigrant Health

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. What is the biggest barrier to implementing peer-based intervention strategies with migrant populations?

A. Migrants are reluctant to seek institutional support.

B. Many migrants cannot afford to participate.

C. lack of peer consultants

D. lack of empirical studies on program effectiveness

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Peer-Based Intervention

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Maurissa volunteers with a migrant support group in Chicago. She suggests providing literature to organizations such as parents and teachers’ associations and religious institutions that outline information about migration issues and where migrants can find various forms of social support. What kind of intervention model is she proposing?

A. school–family–community partnership

B. psychoeducational

C. peer-based intervention

D. indirect information

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoeducational Approach

Difficulty Level: Hard

25. Some late-life immigrants mitigate the loss of their previous social networks by ______.

A. using social media

B. focusing on their family

C. acculturating

D. creating new networks in the United States

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Isolation

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. A family member hand-delivering money is considered an informal remittance.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Staying Connected

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Acculturation refers to the level to which people adapt to their host culture socially and psychologically.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Acculturation

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Marginalization refers to maintaining one’s own culture while completely rejecting the host culture.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Acculturation

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. U.S.-born children are more likely to live with two parents and with a large extended family than are immigrant children.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Immigrant Children and Youth

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Children of immigrant families tend to have high educational aspirations and are less likely to engage in health-risk behaviors and delinquent behaviors.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Immigrant Children and Youth

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Research demonstrated that less than 5% of late-life immigrants rely on their adult children to navigate language, financial, and cultural challenges associated with living in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Familial Unity and Reciprocity

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Immigrants tend to experience higher levels of disability and mortality and lower life expectancy than U.S.-born populations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immigrant Families Physical and Mental Health

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Foreign-born non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic immigrant adults often report fewer psychological symptoms compared with their U.S.-born counterparts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immigrant Families Physical and Mental Health

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Peer-based intervention relies on the assumption that individuals in need are more likely to relate to people in similar peer groups.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Peer-Based Intervention

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. A major barrier to implementing a psychoeducational-based intervention is the high financial cost.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Peer-Based Intervention

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Describe the four categories of acculturation.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Acculturation

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What does research suggest about the impact of parentification on the children of immigrants?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Adjustment of Children of Immigrant Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Discuss effective interventions that care providers can offer migrant populations living in the United States.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Aging Immigrant Health

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. How does the health of immigrant families compare to the health of U.S.-born populations?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Immigrant Families Physical and Mental Health

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Outline factors that influence the adjustment of the children of immigrant families.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Adjustment of Children of Immigrant Families

Difficulty Level: Medium