ANTH/INTL 308
Migration and Human Adaptation
Final exam study guide
The final exam will cover readings, lectures and videos since the midterm. The format will be: multiple-choice, true-false, matching, and an essay component.
The total point value will be 100.
There
will be some coverage of Hans Lucht's book, Darkness Before Daybreak.
Try to think about it in the various ways it can be connected to the material
we've examined throughout the course.
Gender and Migration
Reading: Migration & Economy chapter 7 (Trager
Pp. 225-256);
Migration and Gender in the African Context;
Gender,
Migration and Remittances
Video:
Clandestines
(Women from Comoros
Islands);
Gender, migration, remittances and
development in Vicente Noble, Dominican Republic
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What are the main
traditional reasons why women migrated and how/why has this
changed since the 1960s?
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How have globalization
and the development of
service-based economies in developed nations created
conditions favoring the large-scale international migration of
women?
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What are
global care chains
and why are they so important to the study of women’s migration?
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What/who is
INSTRAW and what
kinds of things do they do?
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How
do men and women vary in
their
remittance patterns?
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How/why are so many women from the Comoros Islands migrating to
the French territory of Mayotte?
Involuntary migration: refugees, displacees and asylees
Reading:
What is a
Refugee?;
Questions and Answers about IDPs;
Frequently Asked Questions About Refugees and Resettlement;
Who is an
internally displaced person? ;
Structural Negligence of U.S. Refugee Resettlement Policy
Videos:
Psychological Treatment for
Refugees
;
The Daily Struggle of Lebanon’s One Million Syrian Refugees
Audio segment:
Coming to America
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What are the major
differences between
refugees and internally displaced persons?
Is this really a
valuable distinction to make on humanitarian grounds or could it
simply be a bureaucratic convenience?
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How does
US refugee resettlement
policy conflict with stated policy objectives?
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Think about the
adjustment difficulties for immigrants highlighted in the
audio segment
Coming
to America.
Environmental migration
Reading:
Environmental Change & Migration: What We Know;
Who are Environmental Migrants?;
Environmentally displaced persons: How can they be protected by international
law?
Videos: King
Tide, Part 1; King Tide, Part 2;
King Tide, Part 3 ;
Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling
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What are the ways in which environmental change is likely to
affect global migration?
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What is the definition of an environmental migrant and
why is this term preferable to the terms environmental
refugee and climate refugee?
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What are the pathways through which climate change may increase
both internal and international migration?
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What does research suggest regarding the relative proportions of
internal and international migrants?
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How
does the tiny nation of Tuvalu illustrate the "sinking island
scenario"?
Retirement migration
Reading:
Long-Stay Tourism and International Retirement Migration: Japanese Retirees in
Malaysia.
International
Retirement Migration: A Case Study of U.S. Retirees Living in Mexico;
Retirement Migrants: The Global Flow of the Non-Working.
Videos:
Gringolandia,
preview; Lost and Found in Mexico,
preview; Moving to Mexico,
Part 1; Moving to Mexico,
Part 2; Moving to Mexico,
Part 3; Mexico Opens its Arms to
Immigrants; Assisted
Living in Mexico
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What are some of the primary reasons why more and more Americans are retiring
abroad?
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How do these retirement migrants go about making their decisions to move?
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How do they adapt to their new surroundings?
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How are the people at their new surroundings adapting to the influx of American
retirees?
Return migration
Reading:
China’s Return Migration and Its Impact on Home Development;
Transnational Return Migration to the English-speaking Caribbean.
Videos: Faces of Migration: Returning to a
Foreign Home; Going Back, Moving On:
Philippine Migrants Return Home; CIM
Program: Migration for Development
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What is meant by
the term return migration?
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What are the
two dimensions that,
until recently, most typologies of return migration concentrated upon?
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How has that changed with the evolution of a
processual view of migration?
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Be familiar with some of the main types of “push”
and “pull” factors identified for this subject.
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Which types of factors tend to be more important?
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How can return migration help in ameliorating what is often
referred to as the "brain drain"?