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Questions
1. What areas of development for settlement services do Ives et al (2014) identify in their study?
a. That market-driven placemaking leads to increased security practices
b. Settlement services should draw on strategic spatial essentialism to support newcomers
c. That housing organizations and settlement services require greater training on newcomer women's transnational realities
d. Greater services are needed in terms of health, housing, and immigration settlement
2. Murray (2011) explores the formal and informal processes and practices through which LGBTQ+ refugee claimants learn about the Canadian nation-state, citizenship and queer identities.
a. True
b. False
3. Which of the following statements characterize the barriers faced by migrant laborers?
a. According to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the unemployment rate among university-educated recent immigrants in Canada was four times greater than that of non-immigrants.
b. According to the UN, migrant laborers are often the first to lose their job in the event of an economic downturn
c. Migrant laborers are often exposed to more precarious working situations
4. According to lecture, which of the following are characteristics of precarious labour?
a. Limited duration of contract
b. Low wages
c. Access to trade union rights
d. Poor protection from termination of employment
5. Echoing our discussion of strategic spatial essentialism in Class 5, Murray (2011) highlights that the process of becoming legible to the state is a significant challenge faced by LGBTQ+ refugee claimants.
a. True
b. False
6. Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith's (2020) article highlights that Indigenous women and women of colour are additionally burdened in toxic landscapes and sites of environmental racism.
a. True
b. False
7. A central dimension of the idea of racial capitalism, put forward by Cedric Robinson (1983), is that the production of racial difference was, and remains, central to the justification of exploitative social relations that are central to capitalist economies.
a. True
b. False
8. As discussed in lecture, Neil Smith (2006) argued that the impacts of environmental disasters are experienced evenly and are not determined by social inequalities.
a. True
b. False
9. According to lecture, which of the following are characteristics of environmental racism?
a. Environmental racism involves the differential exposure to harm along lines of racial difference
b. Environmental racism is inherently spatial
c. Environmental racism involves the limiting of access to resources along lines of racial difference.
10. Wiebe's (2016) discussion of citizen engagement in Sarnia, ON, emphasizes the relationship between citizenship practices and place.
a. True
b. False