1 Migration, Transnationalism, and Cultural Change Online Quiz Questions

The person’s move must be classified as entirely voluntary because it is for work.

The move can be international and work-related while also involving pressures that limit the person’s choices.

The person cannot be considered a migrant unless the move is permanent.

A move shaped by pressure cannot also have a work-related motive.

True

False

A migrant sends money to relatives living in another country.

A person tends a garden used only by neighbors in their current neighborhood.

Relatives in different countries join a family celebration by video.

A migrant travels to visit family in their country of origin.

A group whose members must all share the same view of their homeland

A temporary gathering of people who have no shared history or continuing relationships

A community formed through migration histories that may include shared identities or ongoing ties to places of origin

A population whose members have all adopted the same practices as the receiving society

True

False

Integration, because it necessarily means that only the receiving community changes

Assimilation, because it commonly describes increased adoption of practices associated with the receiving society

Transnationalism, because it means that heritage practices are always abandoned

Diaspora, because it describes a single timetable for cultural change

Whose practices are treated as legitimate or mainstream?

Who is expected to adapt, and who benefits from cultural exchange?

Which cultural practice is inherently superior in every setting?

How does unequal access to resources or decision-making shape cultural change?

Study only one institution and assume its interpretation applies everywhere.

Use only a national boundary to define the limits of all relevant relationships.

Research the same practice in more than one community and compare how people understand it.

Measure only whether a practice is present, without asking how people interpret it.

True

False

The move must be classified as either international or work-related, but not both.

The move can be international and work-related, while also involving limited choice.

The move is not migration unless the person changes countries permanently.

The move cannot be migration if the person faces pressures that limit choice.

The community is undergoing no cultural change because some traditions remain.

The community is assimilating because its members have adopted one new practice.

Cultural persistence and adaptation can occur together.

The community's practices must be uniform because they share a cultural tradition.

This is assimilation because it necessarily entails complete abandonment of heritage practices.

This is integration because it emphasizes participation and mutual adaptation.

This is diaspora because it describes a community's relationship with a place of origin.

This is transnationalism because it necessarily involves frequent travel across borders.

It is a community whose members necessarily share one fixed identity.

It is a community whose members have all permanently ended ties with places of origin.

It is a group defined only by legal status in a receiving country.

It may involve shared identities or origin ties while including disagreement about belonging.