I-Score 5 2016
Migration
1.
Your grandparent went to Texas for college, your mother went to Texas, your older siblings
went to Texas, and you were encouraged to go to Texas as well. What phenomena is this
describing?
a. Chain migration
b. Internal migration
c. Step migration
d. Illegal migration
e. Circular mobility
2. Which of the following would be considered an example of a migration push factor?
a. A natural disaster
b. Chain migration
c. An edge city
d. Decrease in taxes
e. A new factory
3. Comparing migration to the United States in 1910 and 2010, where did the majority of migrants
come from then and now?
a. Germany; Mexico
b. England; Japan
c. Italy; Canada
d. Sweden; India
e. Germany; China
4. What is NOT a good explanation for the immigration pattern in the figure below?
Mexican Immigration:
1.4 million
Mexican Emigration:
1.4 million
a. A new boom in the U.S. economy which is pulling Latin American immigrants to the
U.S.
b. The effect of deindustrialization and the creative destruction of jobs
c. The effect of globalization and the new international division of labor
d. Mexico’s relative location next to large U.S. markets
e. The abundance of unskilled labor opportunities found in maquiladoras
5. Which of the following is NOT an example of intervening obstacle to the flow of goods?
a. Interstate highways
b. Mountains
c. Desert
d. Ethnic conflict
e. Political boundaries
6. With regards to migration between Mexico and the U.S., people are migrating for all of the
following reasons EXCEPT:
a. To escape conflict
b. Higher standards of living
c. Religious freedom
d. Female educational opportunities
e. Economic opportunity
7. Which of the following is typically not a reason for some migrants to seek asylum?
a. Lack of freedom of press and expression
b. Freedom of religion
c. Imprisonment for political dissidents
d. Forced military conscription
e. Racial persecution
8. Anna has decided to move to California from Boston for a better job. While driving from Boston
to California for her new job, Anna stops in St. Louis and is offered a job with better benefits and
higher wages than the job in California. Anna decided to stay in St. Louis. This is an example of
which of the following?
a. Friction of distance
b. Gravity model
c. Distance decay
d. Space-time compression
e. Intervening opportunity
9. The interregional migration trend around the world is rural to urban. Of the following countries,
which has the highest rural population?
a. Germany
b. U.S.
c. China
d. Australia
e. Canada
10. Between 1950 and 2000, the state of Florida’s population dramatically increased due to inmigration. Which is not a pull factor that caused this in-migration?
a. Chain migration
b. Disney World
c. Expensive land values
d. NASA
e. Invention of air conditioning
11. According to the UN High Commission of Refugees, forced migration happens for many different
reasons including political, economic, and social. An aspect of forced migration is known as
“seeking asylum” whereas the migrant looks for protection from a different nation than the one
in which they live. Where do most of the world’s asylum seekers go according to the UN?
a. U.S.
b. Germany
c. Sweden
d. France
e. Turkey
12. The largest internal migration in history is:
a. The migration of Native Americans to reservations in the late 1800s
b. The migration of Mexican workers to maquiladora factory towns from 1980-present
c. The migration of Muslims from India to Pakistan after WWII
d. The rural to urban migration in China from 1970-present
e. The migration of Europeans to North America from 1600-1900
13. Chain migration is likely to result in which of the following?
a. Increased labor costs in the destination country
b. An increase in remittances (payments) to the source country
c. Hierarchical diffusion in the destination country
d. Changes in population policies in the source country
e. A decrease in rural to urban migration in the source country
14. Which of the following statements regarding migration and the DTM is most accurate?
a. Countries in stages II and III of the DTM often experience massive immigration from
countries in stages IV and V
b. Countries in stage I of the DTM often experience massive immigration from countries in
stages II and III
c. Countries in stages IV and V of the DTM often experience massive emigration to
countries in stages II and III
d. Countries in stages II and III of the DTM often experience massive emigration to
countries in stages IV and V
e. Countries in stage I of the DTM often experience massive emigration to countries in
stages IV and V
15. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Illinois population increased from 2000 to 2010 with a
large percentage of the increase coming from migration from Mexico. Despite this, Illinois lost
one seat in the House of Representatives. Which of the following BEST explains this loss?
a. The Illinois map was gerrymandered to exclude a district for Mexican Americans
b. Other states’ populations grew more than Illinois causing lower proportional
representation
c. Illinois growth only happened in the Chicago area and not throughout the state
d. NAFTA mentions that Mexican migration to the U.S. will count against a state
e. Mexican immigrants are never counted in the census because they are not U.S. citizens
16. Regarding the historical immigration pattern of the U.S., which of the following is LEAST correct?
a. Most of the immigrants between 1880-1920 were southern and eastern Europeans
b. Hispanics accounted for many of the immigrants into the U.S. from the 1960s-present
c. Between 1940-1960, the great majority of immigrants to the U.S. were from Asia
d. U.S. immigration decreased sharply in the 1920s and 1930s due to restrictive legislation
e. Germans, Swedes, and Irish accounted for many of the immigrants from 1820-1880
17. Which of the following BEST fits Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration?
a. A family with two children where the parents are in their twenties relocate from rural
Georgia to Los Angeles as the husband just got a new job in the film industry
b. An unmarried woman in her twenties with no children travels from Hartford, CT to New
York City by train every day to attend classes at New York University
c. A family with one child where the parents are in their twenties relocate from rural
Arkansas to rural Texas to manage a small family farm
d. A family with three children where the parents are in their twenties relocate from St.
Louis, MO to Chicago wanting to be closer to the husband’s elderly parents
e. An unmarried man in his twenties with no children relocates from the Atlanta suburbs
to downtown Atlanta as he would rather take the train to work than drive every day
18. In June 2012, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution which expressed regret for which of the
following legislation acts restricting immigration?
a. Asia Barred Zone Act – Exclusion of people from South Asia and Southeast Asia (1917)
b. Exclusion Act – Exclusion of Chinese (1882)
c. Tydings-McDuffie Act – Exclusion of Filipinos (1934)
d. McCarren-Walter Act – Exclusion of people from Soviet bloc countries (1952)
e. Immigrant Act – Exclusion of Japanese (1924)