Human migration - Quiz
Human migration
  • 1. Which author wrote 'The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World'?
A) Stephen Castles
B) Hein de Haas
C) Jared Diamond
D) Patrick Manning
  • 2. Who authored the book 'Guns, germs and steel'?
A) Alexander Rubel
B) David Reich
C) Jared Diamond
D) Ali Behdad
  • 3. Which of these is a journal listed in the provided text?
A) World Migration Studies
B) International Migration Review
C) Global Migration Journal
D) The Human Movement Quarterly
  • 4. What is the title of the book authored by David Reich in 2018?
A) The Age of Migration
B) Empires and Walls
C) Migration in World History
D) Who We Are And How We Got Here
  • 5. Who authored 'The Suffering of the Immigrant'?
A) Miguel A. De La Torre
B) Abdelmalek Sayad
C) Jacqueline Knörr
D) Peter Stalker
  • 6. Which author examined the relationship between migration and national identity in Spain?
A) Bernadette Hanlon
B) Henry Johnson
C) Thomas J. Vicino
D) Désirée Kleiner-Liebau
  • 7. What is the primary focus of Jacqueline Knörr's 2005 work?
A) Childhood and Migration
B) Migration in Antiquity
C) The Philosophy of Evolution
D) Economic Impacts of Migration
  • 8. Which of these authors wrote about 'Empires and Walls'?
A) Antoine Pécoud
B) Mohammad Chaichian
C) Dirk Hoerder
D) Patrick Manning
  • 9. Who wrote 'How Migration Really Works' published in 2023?
A) Mark Miller
B) Hein de Haas
C) Stephen Castles
D) Peter Stalker
  • 10. Which organization publishes the 'World Migration Report'?
A) International Organization for Migration
B) Routledge
C) United Nations
D) OECD
  • 11. What is the title of the work on migration by Patrick Manning?
A) Cultures in Contact
B) Migration Theory
C) Migration in World History
D) Global Migration: The Basics
  • 12. Which book addresses the intersection of migration, education, and translation?
A) Trails of Terror
B) Migration, Education and Translation
C) The Age of Migration
D) No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
  • 13. What is the primary form of recent academic output on migration?
A) Policy white papers
B) Documentary films
C) Journal articles
D) Textbooks
  • 14. What does neoclassical economic theory identify as the main driver of labour migration?
A) Political instability in home countries
B) Cultural assimilation
C) Environmental changes
D) Wage differences between geographic locations
  • 15. According to dual labour market theory, what primarily causes migration to developed countries?
A) Technological unemployment
B) Governmental migration mandates
C) Pull factors
D) Push factors from the secondary market
  • 16. Which market segment in the dual labour market theory requires low-skilled workers?
A) The primary market
B) The tertiary sector
C) The secondary market
D) The public sector
  • 17. Why do native labourers in developed countries often avoid the secondary labour market?
A) The jobs require too much education
B) The wages are too high
C) They prefer international travel
D) The jobs present a lack of mobility
  • 18. What is the role of the household in the new economics of labour migration theory?
A) It serves as the legislative body for migration
B) It acts as a social entity to mitigate risk
C) It acts as the sole employer
D) It provides travel documentation
  • 19. What are remittances in the context of migration?
A) Capital sent back home by migrant workers
B) Taxes paid by the receiving country
C) Funds used to cover moving costs
D) Governmental subsidies for moving
  • 20. What trend in US interstate migration was observed between 1991 and 2011?
A) A rapid increase
B) A decline
C) An unpredictable fluctuation
D) Complete stagnation
  • 21. According to some researchers, what is more important than moving costs in determining labour reallocation?
A) The location-specific nature of housing
B) National wage regulations
C) The size of the household
D) Information technology
  • 22. What term refers to the income migrants send back to their home countries?
A) Government grants
B) Capital investments
C) International subsidies
D) Economic remittances
  • 23. Approximately how many people were classified as refugees or forced to move in 2014?
A) 59.5 million
B) 100 million
C) 25 million
D) 10 million
  • 24. Which of the following is cited as a reason for forced movement?
A) Academic study
B) Tourism opportunities
C) Seeking higher social status
D) Human-rights violations
  • 25. What characterizes positive selection in migration?
A) The source country has a higher skill premium than the host country
B) Both countries have identical skill premia
C) Migration is only driven by family ties
D) The host country has a higher skill premium than the source country
  • 26. What is negative selection in the context of migration?
A) The host country has a lower cost of living
B) The migrant lacks formal education
C) The migration is forced by conflict
D) The source country displays a lower skill premium
  • 27. Which technique is mentioned as a way to measure the relative skill premium of a country?
A) Population density mapping
B) GDP growth analysis
C) Age heaping techniques
D) Labor force participation rates
  • 28. What percentage of global GDP was contributed by migrants in 2015?
A) 3.3%
B) 9.4%
C) 78%
D) 7.6%
  • 29. What share of the world population did migrants constitute in 2015?
A) 10%
B) 7.9%
C) 3.3%
D) 9.4%
  • 30. According to the Boston Consulting Group survey, what percentage of executives believed migration benefited their countries?
A) 3.3%
B) 9.4%
C) 45%
D) 72%
  • 31. What has been the approximate share of migrants among the world population over the last 5 decades?
A) 7.9 percent
B) 9.4 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 3 percent
  • 32. Which of the following is cited as an example of a push factor?
A) Abundant job opportunities
B) High quality of life
C) Political stability
D) Excessive pollution
  • 33. What does the Armenian government's incentive program for border villages illustrate?
A) A push strategy.
B) A reduction in remittance costs.
C) An international refugee treaty.
D) The total absence of pull factors.
  • 34. Which of the following is identified as one of the four major forms of migration?
A) Invasion
B) Commuting
C) Tourism
D) Nomadism
  • 35. Which term describes people who flee their home due to natural disaster but remain within their country?
A) Internally-displaced persons
B) Asylum seekers
C) Refugees
D) Nomads
  • 36. Since what year has the International Organization for Migration published the World Migration Report?
A) 2008
B) 2016
C) 2011
D) 1999
  • 37. What percentage of migrants moved from developing countries to other developing countries in 2013?
A) 23%
B) 38%
C) 25%
D) 32%
  • 38. What percentage of migrants moved from high-income OECD countries to other high-income countries in 2013?
A) 32%
B) 23%
C) 38%
D) 25%
  • 39. Which of the following is cited as a form of internal migration?
A) Transcontinental travel
B) International relocation
C) Urbanisation
D) OECD migration
  • 40. What is the estimated number of uniracial ethnic Chinese individuals in the New York metropolitan area as of 2017?
A) 25,000
B) 893,697
C) 32,000
D) 2,000,000
  • 41. When was the term 'transit migration' coined by the UN?
A) 2018
B) 1990
C) 2025
D) 2022
  • 42. How do remittances affect inequality in the long run according to relative deprivation theory?
A) They eliminate all forms of currency difference
B) They permanently increase inequality
C) They may decrease inequality
D) They have no effect on inequality
  • 43. From what perspective does world-systems theory look at migration?
A) A purely biological perspective
B) A global perspective
C) A local village perspective
D) An individual psychological perspective
  • 44. Which of these is a period of simple migration in osmosis theory?
A) Industrialization
B) Globalization
C) Diffusion
D) Urbanization
  • 45. In the osmosis theory analogy, what do countries represent?
A) Semipermeable membranes
B) Osmotic pressure
C) Ions of water
D) Animal cells
  • 46. In the osmosis theory analogy, what do borders represent?
A) Water molecules
B) Semipermeable membranes
C) Biological energy
D) Animal cells
  • 47. What variable replaces the thermodynamics principles to measure osmotic pressure in migration?
A) Economic inequality indices
B) Natural determinants
C) Human capital formation
D) Trade balance statistics
  • 48. Which sociological perspective focuses on face-to-face interactions at a micro-level?
A) Structural functionalism
B) Social remittances
C) Symbolic interactionism
D) Social conflict theory
  • 49. Whose ideas formed the basis of structural functionalism regarding migration?
A) Karl Marx
B) Peggy Levitt
C) Max Weber
D) Émile Durkheim
  • 50. In the 21st century, what framework has been used to understand the interplay between migrants, destination countries, and countries of origin?
A) Functional consolidation
B) Micro-level interaction
C) Social conflict
D) Transnationalism
  • 51. Which sociological perspective analyzes migration based on its role in fulfilling specific societal functions?
A) Social conflict theory
B) Structural functionalism
C) Symbolic interactionism
D) Transnationalism
  • 52. Which framework do political scientists use to analyze how emigration affects politics in home countries?
A) Hirschman's 'voice' vs. 'exit'
B) The migratory domino effect
C) Ravenstein's laws of migration
D) Lee's push and pull model
  • 53. Where do migrants who travel long distances tend to move?
A) Remote mountainous regions
B) Small rural villages
C) Agricultural zones
D) Big-city destinations
  • 54. Who proposed the model that categorizes migration factors into push and pull?
A) Everett S. Lee
B) Albert Hirschman
C) Ernst Georg Ravenstein
D) Bogumil Terminski
  • 55. What term does Bogumil Terminski use to describe the displacement of tribes due to climate cycles?
A) Counter migration
B) Step migration
C) Migratory domino effect
D) Urban-rural shift
  • 56. What is the primary cause of nomadic movement according to climate history?
A) International voting processes
B) Political activism in diasporas
C) Climatic cycles affecting pastureland
D) Expansion of industrial technology
  • 57. Which group of people is mentioned as being involved in a 'migratory domino effect'?
A) Sea People
B) Urban residents
C) Rural farmers
D) Political scientists
  • 58. According to Ravenstein, which demographic is less likely to make international moves?
A) Skilled professionals
B) Nomadic tribes
C) Young adults
D) Families
  • 59. What aspect of 21st-century politics involves scholars examining state-diaspora relations?
A) Agricultural reform
B) Climate stabilization
C) Diaspora activism
D) Urban planning
  • 60. Which of these is a key theme in 21st-century political science regarding migration?
A) Rural to rural movement
B) The decline of urban centers
C) Out-of-country voting processes
D) Step migration patterns
  • 61. Who suggested that towns and cities are created by the human struggle for food, sex, and security?
A) Idyorough
B) Smith
C) Marx
D) Darwin
  • 62. How does the text describe the social relationships formed during migration?
A) Solely antagonistic
B) Solely cooperative
C) Cooperative or antagonistic
D) Entirely random
  • 63. Which model from 1956 is mentioned in the text regarding migration?
A) Zelinsky's Mobility Transition Model
B) Zipf's inverse distance law
C) Bauder's regulation theory
D) Stouffer's theory
  • 64. Whose theory from 1940 focuses on intervening opportunities?
A) Bauder
B) Stouffer
C) Zipf
D) Zelinsky
  • 65. Historically, where has the majority of migration governance remained?
A) Global governing bodies
B) Non-governmental organizations
C) Individual states
D) The United Nations
  • 66. What is migration governance closely associated with?
A) Free-market globalization
B) State sovereignty
C) Human rights NGOs
D) International labor unions
  • 67. When was the Global Compact for Migration adopted?
A) December 2006
B) December 2018
C) December 1971
D) December 1940
  • 68. Is the Global Compact for Migration legally binding?
A) No
B) Yes
C) Only for transit states
D) Only for destination states
  • 69. What does the text call States through which migrants travel?
A) Intermediate States
B) Border States
C) Transit States
D) Flow States
  • 70. How many UN Member States voted in favor of the Global Compact for Migration?
A) 162
B) 142
C) 152
D) 150
  • 71. What process globalized systems of migration and established long-lasting ties?
A) Urbanization
B) Globalization
C) Colonialism
D) Industrialization
  • 72. What is the primary aim of today's selective foreign worker policies?
A) Reducing population size
B) Eliminating international trade
C) Promoting ethnic homogeneity
D) Boosting economies
  • 73. What factor contributes to discrimination and exploitation regarding modern migration policies?
A) Global economic stability
B) Excessive labor laws
C) High international demand
D) Ethnic nationalist opposition
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