International Migration Policies Week 9: Emigration

1. Labor immigration programs that target higher-skilled migrants are more open to labor immigration than those targeting lower-skilled migrants.
2. Programs that target higher-skilled migrants grant migrants more rights than programs that target lower-skilled migrants.
3. There can be a trade-off (a negative relationship) between openness and some of the rights of some migrant workers admitted to high-income countries.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The act of leaving one's own country to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A human development approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Access to education and healthcare opportunities in the receiving country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More people leaving the country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, also known as RA 8042.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>23%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It ensures the return of high-skilled workers to their sending countries, boosting national development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantitative and qualitative variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Age</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of cars in a parking lot</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The weight of a person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The independent variable is the factor being changed or manipulated in an experiment or study, while the dependent variable is the outcome or response that is measured and is influenced by the independent variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The null hypothesis is the basis we test against; it assumes there is no relationship between the independent and dependent variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It acknowledges that the state is not a singular actor but a complex entity made up of different actors operating at multiple levels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clash between local and national level government policies and the US government undermining Mexico's emigration policy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To revive the Bracero program.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A program designed to encourage the return of highly educated Mexicans from abroad.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Labor immigration programs that target higher-skilled migrants are more open to labor immigration than those targeting lower-skilled migrants. 2. Programs that target higher-skilled migrants grant migrants more rights than programs that target lower-skilled migrants. 3. There can be a trade-off (a negative relationship) between openness and some of the rights of some migrant workers admitted to high-income countries.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main purpose was to promote integration of immigrants through the promotion of family life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The &quot;Protection formation function&quot; framework by Findlay and Wellisz (1982) argues that there is a direct relationship between a) a lobby's efforts and b) policy outcomes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ruhs takes a human development approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Visa fees, travel expenses, payments to recruitment agencies, illegal payments like bribes and kickbacks, and the cost of finding a job in a new country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Illegal migrants often face fear of deportation and are limited in their opportunities to access education, healthcare, and other essential services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factors such as access to labor markets, better economic opportunities, and the chance for a better life can outweigh the concern for potential limitations of rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Nation-states face constraints on their formal authority and power to regulate labor emigration as well as the rights of migrant workers abroad. 2. There is a wide range of constraints and factors that limit the available policy space for regulating labor emigration (political system, historical relationship with receiving countries). 3. Nation-states' policy decisions are based on many factors including the countries' national interest.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Outflow of low-skilled workers can raise wages of nonimmigrant low-skilled workers in migrant-sendingcountries. 2. Creates incentives to produce high skilled laborers (opportunity to increase human capital and remittances). 3. It is better to send low-skilled laborers than high-skilled laborers.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sending countries can actively protect their emigrant laborers' rights by implementing export bans on migrant workers to non-compliant countries and directly engaging with receiving countries to defend the rights of their workers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They risk losing legitimacy among their citizens, gaining a bad reputation in the international community, and potentially encouraging more people to leave the country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The United States</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>23%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fitzgerald argues that the Mexican federal government's efforts to control emigration to the US have been constrained both from within and without.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It refers to the clash between local and national level government policies in Mexico.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The neopluralist approach views the state as not a single actor but as an entity composed of numerous actors at multiple levels with unequal power relations between different interest groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variable is a person, place, thing, or phenomenon that you are trying to measure in some way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they can be less interesting and provide limited insights into a phenomenon. It is more insightful to study variables with significant variation or contestation, leading to valuable research findings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two main types are qualitative and quantitative variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A qualitative variable is a variable that is not numerical and typically represents categories or attributes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two types of qualitative variables are nominal and ordinal variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nominal variable represents unordered categories that are mutually exclusive and cannot be ranked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A discrete variable represents a countable number of distinct values, often whole numbers, within a defined range.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A continuous variable represents an infinite number of values within a defined range, often including decimal values and fractions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two main types are independent and dependent variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An independent variable is the variable that influences or causes a change in the dependent variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers