CRES FINAL Preparation Questions With Correct
Answers.
1. bipolar admissions: two divergent flows of CHINESE migration: one based on
professional preference (highly educated upper middle class) and the other on family
unity (relative of working class immigrants with little English).
2. gae: social capital, credit association that Koreans used to start their businesses
(rotating credit association)
3. middleman minority: often engage in trading and commerce
• distributes the products owned/made by the ruling
group to the dominated group
• serves as a buffer group; subject to hostility from groups above and below
4. LA riots (1992): multiracial riots
Korean merchants as a middleman minority
5. social capital: (e.g gae)
6. US v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923): a case in which the Supreme Court of the
United States unanimously decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man
who identified himself as a "high caste aryan, of full Indian blood," was racially
ineligible for naturalized citizenship in the United States
7. Asiatic Barred Zone Act (1917): designation of the regions in Asia from which
people were banned from immigrating to the U.S.
8. pensionados: Phillipino students/ wealthy parents
9. Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934): Institutionalized exclusion of Filipino immigrants
Establishment of the Philippines as a commonwealth
- Classified as "aliens"
- 50 per annum entry quota allowed
10. Repatriation Act (1935): encouragementof return to the Philippines: in reality,
few returned.
11. Luce-Cellar Bill (1946): quota of 100 filipinos and 100 indians to immigrate per
year
let them naturalize and become us citizens aa
12. McCarran-Walter Act (1952): a quota system, limited immigration from Asia
13. Hart-Cellar Act (1965): abolished an earlier quota system based on national
origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant
families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
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, 14. refugee/asylee (asylum seeker):
15. Refugee Act (1980): An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to
revise the procedures for the admission of refugees, to amend the Migration and
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to establish a more uniform basis for the provision
of assistance to refugees, and for other purpose
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Answers.
1. bipolar admissions: two divergent flows of CHINESE migration: one based on
professional preference (highly educated upper middle class) and the other on family
unity (relative of working class immigrants with little English).
2. gae: social capital, credit association that Koreans used to start their businesses
(rotating credit association)
3. middleman minority: often engage in trading and commerce
• distributes the products owned/made by the ruling
group to the dominated group
• serves as a buffer group; subject to hostility from groups above and below
4. LA riots (1992): multiracial riots
Korean merchants as a middleman minority
5. social capital: (e.g gae)
6. US v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923): a case in which the Supreme Court of the
United States unanimously decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man
who identified himself as a "high caste aryan, of full Indian blood," was racially
ineligible for naturalized citizenship in the United States
7. Asiatic Barred Zone Act (1917): designation of the regions in Asia from which
people were banned from immigrating to the U.S.
8. pensionados: Phillipino students/ wealthy parents
9. Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934): Institutionalized exclusion of Filipino immigrants
Establishment of the Philippines as a commonwealth
- Classified as "aliens"
- 50 per annum entry quota allowed
10. Repatriation Act (1935): encouragementof return to the Philippines: in reality,
few returned.
11. Luce-Cellar Bill (1946): quota of 100 filipinos and 100 indians to immigrate per
year
let them naturalize and become us citizens aa
12. McCarran-Walter Act (1952): a quota system, limited immigration from Asia
13. Hart-Cellar Act (1965): abolished an earlier quota system based on national
origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant
families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
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, 14. refugee/asylee (asylum seeker):
15. Refugee Act (1980): An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to
revise the procedures for the admission of refugees, to amend the Migration and
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to establish a more uniform basis for the provision
of assistance to refugees, and for other purpose
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