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Chapter 6: CROSSING BORDERS: Migration and Intercultural Adaptation
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Nazim is a 25-year-old French citizen of Algerian descent. While he wants to be part of French society, he experiences racism and lack of employment opportunity as a son of immigrant parents. He also feels that he does not belong to Algerian culture because people in Algerian community perceive him as “too French.” Nazim’s migrant-host relationship can be best described as
a. separation.
b. integration.
c. assimilation.
d. marginalization.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Takashi is in the United States as an international student studying communication studies. What kind of migrant is he?
a. Immigrant
b. Refugee
c. Sojourner
d. Traveler
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Migrants
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Starting in the late 1980s, a large number of migrants moved from Mexico to work in a meatpacking plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Back in Mexico, they experienced deteriorating economic conditions, and the meatpacking plant in the United States was in need of migrant laborers. This pattern of migration can be best understood from
a. push-pull theory.
b. melting pot.
c. migrant network.
d. social capital.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Soumia, an international student from India, was very excited to come to the United States. A few weeks after her arrival, however, she started feeling homesick. She began to think that cultural differences are confusing and disorienting. Soumia is experiencing
a. adjustment.
b. culture shock.
c. anticipation.
d. reentry shock.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Bodi, an immigrant from China, came to the United States following his cousins and family friends who provided him with information and support for travel, housing, employment, and education. Which of the following enabled his migration?
a. Migrant networks
b. World systems theory
c. Pluralism
d. Cultural adaptation
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Meso-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. A large number of Indian scientists, doctors, and computer programmers migrated to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. This is an example of
a. outsourcing.
b. brain drain.
c. push-pull theory.
d. marginalization.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Meso-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Xenophobia is defined as
a. fear of outsiders.
b. fear of height.
c. fear of homosexuality.
d. fear of globalization.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Feminization of workforce means
a. in the first wave of migration, women were discouraged to migrate.
b. in the second wave of migration, women were recruited to migrate as high skilled laborers.
c. in the context of globalization, there is an increasing demand for migrant women from developing countries to work at factories and serve as caretakers.
d. in the context of globalization, migrant women are more likely to succeed in the workforce than male migrants.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The “melting pot” metaphor
a. reflects the cultural diversity of the United States.
b. describes accurately the history of cultural groups in the United States.
c. was never accurate because many cultural groups experienced exclusion from the mainstream culture and/or retained their cultural distinctiveness.
d. refers to the process in which cultural groups remain distinct as well as contribute to a whole unified pattern.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Maya wants to raise money for the immigrant community in her town to provide them with English lessons. She has a strong network of friends, teachers, and community members who are committed to providing support for her cause. Maya benefits from her
a. social capital.
b. economic capital.
c. higher education.
d. cultural imperialism.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meso-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Postcolonial migrants are
a. people who migrate from former colonies to former centers of colonial power.
b. people who migrate to former colonies.
c. much fewer in number today than during the colonial period.
d. affecting former colonial centers as numbers get smaller
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Migration in the context of globalization is
a. primarily from the North to the South.
b. rapid, multidirectional, and diverse.
c. is notable because of the increase in the number of men migrating as compared with women.
d. has little to do with labor.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Nativist movements refer to
a. movements that called for the exclusion of foreign-born people.
b. movements that lead to great social and economic equity.
c. movements of people indigenous to the land to the urban centers.
d. movements that called for the inclusion of foreign-born people.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Which theory proposed that cultural adaption occurs through a process of growth, stress, and adaptation?
a. Migrant-host relationship
b. Culture shock
c. Integrative theory of cultural adaptation
d. Push-pull theory
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Justin spent a year abroad in Shanghai, China. After about 5 to 6 months, he found that through hard work, he was able to engage effectively with the host culture, develop strategies to cope with the psychological stress of being in a new environment, and shift his identity so he could connect with his new friends in China as well as the friend who was from the United States also living in China. Justin’s experience illustrates
a. culture shock.
b. intercultural transformation.
c. deculturation.
d. separation.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Part of Indra’s family lives in Bali and others live in the United States. His mother travels to the United States frequently for her jewelry business in Indonesia. Indra’s transmigrant community is likely characterized by which of the following?
a. A lack of sense of community
b. A sense of transnational “home” in only Indonesia
c. Intertwining familial relationships across multiple locations
d. Disconnection from both Indonesia and the United States
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meso-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. The ______ wave of migration took place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s during the Industrial Revolution, when peasants from the rural parts of Europe, fleeing poverty and famine, migrated to urban areas in Europe and North and South America.
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. fourth
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. ______ are people who are forced to flee for safety reasons from their country of origin due to war, fear of persecution, or famine.
a. Settlers
b. Immigrants
c. Sojourners
d. Refugees
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. ______ emphasizes the maintenance of ethnic and cultural values, norms, and practices within a multicultural society
a. Capitalism
b. Pluralism
c. Push-pull theory
d. Globalization
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Which of the following is not an outcome of intercultural transformation?
a. Increased functional fitness of the migrant’s ability to engage effectively with the host culture.
b. Improved psychological health of the migrant in coping with the environment.
a. A shift toward an intercultural identity.
d. Rejection of previous cultural values.
Learning Objective: 7-4: Gain knowledge and empathy for the challenges and rewards of migration and intercultural adaptation in the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. The number of Latin American and Asian immigrations to the United States increased in the later part of the 20th century.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. The third wave of migration is characterized by chain migration from Europe to North and South America.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Nativist movements called for the exclusion of foreign-born people.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Immigrants are voluntary migrants who leave home for limited periods of time and for specific purposes such as international students.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Migrants
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. For many decades, migrants to the southern U.S. border were primarily Mexican men.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Women across the economic spectrum are entering the paid labor force in unprecedented numbers leading to the feminization of the workforce.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Push-Pull Theory argues that international migration today is a result of the structure of global capitalism
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Macro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The second stage of the U-curve model is anticipation, where excitement about the new culture characterizes the sojourner’s experience.
Learning Objective: : 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Separation describes the migrant–host mode of relationship when the migrant values their own or home culture more than the host culture.
Learning Objective: : 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The movement of high-skilled workers away from their countries of origin represents a huge loss in terms of knowledge, skills, investment, and capital for the sending countries.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meso-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Briefly discuss the characteristics of first, second, and third wave of global migration.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Historical Overview of World Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Why is the metaphor “melting pot” problematic and inaccurate to describe U.S. society?
Learning Objective: 6-2: Identify the unique aspects of migration and intercultural adaptation today as well as the similarities with earlier waves of world migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Briefly explain the different types of migrants in both voluntary and involuntary migration. Why do you think it is important to understand that there are different kinds of migrants?
Learning Objective: 6-1: Explain intercultural border crossing and adaptation within the context of globalization.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Migrants
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Giving specific examples and drawing on specific theories, discuss the role of intercultural communication in cultural adaptation.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Theories of Migration and Intercultural Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Briefly explain the U-Curve and W-Curve Model of Cultural Adaptation. Identify the five stages and explain each stage briefly.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe and apply a multi-level framework to analyze intercultural adaptation that accounts for micro-, meso- and macro-level factors and influences.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Micro-Level Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
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