UNIT 6 QUESTIONS

According to "the law of minimum effort", travel and locational decisions, are usually taken in order to minimize the friction of distance. TRUE. FALSE.

Mobility is the ability to move freely and easily. Movements of the human beings taking into account time, distance and motivation. TRUE. FALSE.

Mobility is the ability to move freely and easily. Movements of the human beings without taking into account the time, the distance, or the motivation. TRUE. FALSE.

Migration is a particular way of mobility. It involves the exceptional movements of people who will, or must, stay in the destination place permanently, or for a long time. TRUE. FALSE.

'Fashion', even though is capable of analysis, can´t be characterised by geographical segregation. TRUE. FALSE.

Tourism and Migration are elements of the mobility. What makes them different is that migration involves the change of the ordinary place of residence, while in tourism remains the same. TRUE. FALSE.

Only when incomes were sufficiently low when there was no free time could the facilities of access be fully exploited. TRUE. FALSE.

Societies retain and recall their past through collective memory. This collective memory answers questions such as who are we?, where have we been? what do we hope to become?. TRUE. FALSE.

Tourism is it one of the most important elements of the mobility,although is it not really migration stricto sensu. TRUE. FALSE.

There is a tendency for human activities to agglomerate, to take advantage of scale economies. TRUE. FALSE.

The concepts of SPACE and TIME are NOT significant for defining tourism. TRUE. FALSE.

The distribution of travel behaviour in space and time reflects an ordered adjustment to the factor of distance. TRUE. FALSE.

Migration involves the exceptional movements of people who will, or must, stay in the destination place permanently, or for a long time. TRUE. FALSE.

How fast you can travel determines how far you can travel in a given period of time. TRUE. FALSE.

Tourists involve themselves more in the tourist places, and the migrants select the same places in their logic of movements. TRUE. FALSE.

Travel behavior is decided by the distance that is traveled. TRUE. FALSE.

According to the international migration there are six dimensions, which are the following: labor migration, migration and security, combating illegal migration, migration and development, demographic aspects and economic liberalization. TRUE. FALSE.

Statistical data concerning migration are not recopilated in regular basis. TRUE. FALSE.

Migration provides a cheaper work force to the developed countries while skilled manpower is lacking in the sending countries. TRUE. FALSE.

The term “feminization of labor migration” came up for the first time in 1994 when the share of women in labor migration increased significantly. TRUE. FALSE.

Both intelectual and non intelectual see political conflicts as a reason for migration. TRUE. FALSE.

Tourism is seen as being related to other forms of mobility: voluntary migration, educational travel, health, work related mobility, etc. TRUE. FALSE.

According to the causes of migration, both intellectual and non intellectual people flee their home due to poverty and hunger, political reasons and conflicts. TRUE. FALSE.

What happens with migration is that it provides a cheaper work force to the developed countries while skilled manpower is lacking in the sending countries. TRUE. FALSE.

Outline is a brief conceptual framework for considering amenity migration in context of sustainable development. TRUE. FALSE.

The implications of migration are: economic, social, labor, education, cultural, and security. TRUE. FALSE.

Regarding to Labour Migration, migration provides a more expensive work force to the developed countries while skilled manpower is lacking in the sending countries. TRUE. FALSE.

"Legal migration has become one of the major concerns of our time ". TRUE. FALSE.

Terrorism has complicated the priniple of free movement of people even among countries who share the same organizations or the same values. TRUE. FALSE.

It's necessary to establish policies and mechanism for non-maker housing before growth is too far advanced. TRUE. FALSE.

According to Portes ; there is a growing number of people who live dual lives: speaking two languages, having homes in two countries and making a living through continuous regular contact across national borders. TRUE. FALSE.

The number of people living outside their country of birth has decreased from 215.8 million in 1960 to nearly 75 million in 2010. TRUE. FALSE.

Consumption-led reflects a societal shift in values that emphasizes tradition, heritage, subjective well-being; environmental protection and other quality of life concerns. TRUE. FALSE.

One of the global impact of mobility is the huge change in political and economic situation in the world, what has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration. TRUE. FALSE.

In relation to the impacts of global mobility, the increase in human migration to areas of high quality recreational and tourism resources is referred to as ''amenity migration'', and includes both permanent and second home residents. TRUE. FALSE.

Production-led: tourism migration labor pools and entrepreneurial personnel. Different QOL issues. TRUE. FALSE.

An important and relevant characteristic of transmigrants is that they aren't permanently settled in one place; the live howeven in an architectural provisorium that reflects their lack of real place of belonging. TRUE. FALSE.

In relation with the housing and quality of life it is necessary to establish policies and mechanism for market housing after growth is too far advanced. TRUE. FALSE.

What has changed is the share of woman in labor migration flows.this share has increased since the 1870s. TRUE. FALSE.

Migration has created a new situation in which the number of persons living outside their country of birth has increased over a 300% in the last 50 years. TRUE. FALSE.

One impact of global mobility is that it focuses one one important quality of life issue resulting from amenity migration: affordable housing for workers. TRUE. FALSE.

Amenity migration and affordable housing are integrally related because amenity migration invariably leads to rising house prices. TRUE. FALSE.

Global Mobility Outline: brief conceptual framework for considering amenity migration in context of substainable development. TRUE. FALSE.

Good labour market conditions can act as a pull factor in international labour migration. TRUE. FALSE.

While tourist can be classified as cruise passengers and as crew members, migrants just can be identified as crew members. TRUE. FALSE.

Traditional countries of immigration (i.e. England, Germany,..) don't accept permanent immigration. TRUE. FALSE.

Contract workers are only insured for social benefits in their own country, not in Germany, this reduces the cost of the worker to employers in Germany. TRUE. FALSE.

Authorities in destination countries can opt just for permanent labor migration. TRUE. FALSE.

Push factors as to why people migrate include unemployemnt, crisis pressure and income disparaties in developing countries. TRUE. FALSE.

Most EU countries prefer the facilitation of temporary labor migration, distinguishing between skilled and lower-skilled migrant workers. TRUE. FALSE.

Contract workers are only for social benefits in their own country, not in Spain. TRUE. FALSE.

The number of people arriving to Spain controlled by the police, always coincide with the frontur number of people arriving to Spain. TRUE. FALSE.

Work permit is required in Germany, but no labor market test needs to be met. TRUE. FALSE.

Irregular migration, which is a type of mobility, occupies a 10-15% of total flows. TRUE. FALSE.

In the year 2000, the huge worker demand was the only matter to the government in terms of immigration. TRUE. FALSE.

Bad labour market conditions are able to act as kind of factor in international labour migration. TRUE. FALSE.

In Germany work permits are required but no labor market test needs to be made. TRUE. FALSE.

There is a growing number of people who live dual lives: Speaking two languages, having homes in two countries, and making a living through continuous regular contact across national borders“ (Porter et al., 1999). TRUE. FALSE.

Traditional countries of immigration dont accept permanent immigration because it wont ensure economic growth. TRUE. FALSE.