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