AAS 210 Flashcards REAL EXAM 2025
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 500
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
Hart-Cellar 7 Preferences - CORRECT ANSWER Adult, unmarried children of US
citizens
2 - Spouses and unmarried children of legal permanent aliens
3 - Professionals with exceptional abilities in sciences and Arts (Cold-war economy
needed talented workers, nurses, doctors, and more of them, ex) Philippines)
4 - Married children of US citizens
5 - Siblings of adult US citizens
6 - skilled or unskilled workers to meet labor shortages in the US
7 - Refugees, particularly those fleeing from Communist countries or the Middle
East, (not repressive ally nations)
What 3 Hart-Cellar preferences did AA use to immigrate? - CORRECT ANSWER
Family reunification used most, 80-90%
Spouses, unmarried minor children, and parents of citizens to enter outside of
quotas
Occupation Preferences, used by professionals
Refugees from Southeast Asia
Effects of Hart-Cellar Act on AA community - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Changing
gender ratios
Employment
Filipina nurses
Marriages to US servicemen
War brides
2 - Employment; more professionals
,3 - residential; before 1965 people settled in the West, post 1965, in the
Northeast, South, and Midwest
4 - increased diversity with more SEA refugees coming into the country
What preferences were visa distribution based on? - CORRECT ANSWER family
reunification & employment
Family-Reunification visa preferences - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Unmarried adult
children of US citizens
2a - Spouse and unmarried children under 21 of legal permanent residents
2b - unmarried children over 21 of legal permanent residence
3 - Married children of US citizens
4 - Siblings of adult US Citizens
Only citizens can petition for arrived children and adults to enter the US, not
permanent residents
Employment-Based visa categories - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Immigrants with
exceptional abilities (Science, athletics, art), outstanding professors or researchers,
and executives or managers of multinational companies
2 - professionals with advanced degrees or people with exceptional abilities
3 - Skilled workers, rifessionals, or other workers
4 - Special Immigrants (Middle East)
5 - Investors whose investments will create at least 10 new jobs
Impacts of 1990 amendments on AAPI - CORRECT ANSWER - favored
professionals/wealthy, hence exaggerating the growing class divide
- No visas for unskilled laborers; made it more difficult for people to come here;
contributed to increased undocumented migration & overstaying visas "Side door"
- Contributed to foreigner racialization (AAPI is predominantly foreign born)
- Maintaining ethnic enclaves
- Decreased refugees many were able to enter through family reunification
1st wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - 1975
- Mostly Elite, middle-class, educated individuals
- About 100,000 from Vietnam
- 10'000 from Cambodia & Laos
,2ns wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - 1979-mid 80s
- Less educated, often people from rural areas (overwhelmingly less elite)
- Experienced more violence, instability, and trauma
- a lot fled on foot or by sea (The best we could do)
3rd wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - late 80's
- Used UN program and family reunification
- 1988 Amerasian Homecoming act
- More choice of when to leave and where to settle
- More likely to be able to resettle with family
Amerasian Homecoming act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1988
- Federal law enacted in 1987 aimed at facilitating the immigration of Amerasian
(referring to someone born in East or SEA, or a SEA mother and U.S. Military
father) children born to U.S. citizens and Vietnamese mothers during the Vietnam
War
1980 refugee act - CORRECT ANSWER - US way to show humanitarianism during
Cold War
- Focused on geographic dispersal, self-sufficiency, assimilation
- Adopted UN definition of refugee
- Yearly quota at 50,000
- Established admittance procedures
- Funded resettlement
- Funding decreased by the early 1980's
How was help resettling in the U.S. based in assimilationist ideals? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Assistance with housing, language, and job training
intended for assimilation
- Initial resettlement across US to avoid burdening one area/state or forming
"ghettos"
What were difficulties SEA immigrants faced when resettling in the US? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Unfamiliar with English, US culture
- Those from rural unfamiliar with urban areas
- Downward occupational mobility
- Psychological scars/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
, - Racism
- Racialization as unassimilable foreigners
- Foreigner racialization is getting separated as a danger to the US
- Violence
How does Thi Bui's "The Best we Can do" showcase the hardships of SEA refugees?
- CORRECT ANSWER - How does her graphic novel reflect the SEA refugee
experience
- Humanizes it
Shows the trauma, father is abusive
- Artist and activist - new graphic novel on SEA refugee detention and deportation
- Supported teacher's strike in Oakland Unified School District
When was the peak of the Asian American movement's activism? (AAM) -
CORRECT ANSWER 1960's-1980's
What did AAS focus on in the 1960's? - CORRECT ANSWER Broader struggles
against racism, oppression and power
Who made up a large part of the AAM? - CORRECT ANSWER College students and
community members with organizing experience/concern for the community
Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Formed in 1968
- Co-founder coined the term "Asian American"
- re-rooted the AAM in solidarity
- pan-ethnic identity
What was the AAM fighting for overall? - CORRECT ANSWER - Social program
improvements so they meet community needs
- Housing rights (predominantly anti-evictions, think I-Hotel/Manilatown)
- Unionizing on worksites
- Education rights (Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies)
- Democratic rights
AA Issues in LA/Little Tokyo - CORRECT ANSWER - largely surrounding the issue of
displacement, similar to I-Hotel, the Sun Hotel was fighting consistent evictions
GRADED A LATEST VERSION 500
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
Hart-Cellar 7 Preferences - CORRECT ANSWER Adult, unmarried children of US
citizens
2 - Spouses and unmarried children of legal permanent aliens
3 - Professionals with exceptional abilities in sciences and Arts (Cold-war economy
needed talented workers, nurses, doctors, and more of them, ex) Philippines)
4 - Married children of US citizens
5 - Siblings of adult US citizens
6 - skilled or unskilled workers to meet labor shortages in the US
7 - Refugees, particularly those fleeing from Communist countries or the Middle
East, (not repressive ally nations)
What 3 Hart-Cellar preferences did AA use to immigrate? - CORRECT ANSWER
Family reunification used most, 80-90%
Spouses, unmarried minor children, and parents of citizens to enter outside of
quotas
Occupation Preferences, used by professionals
Refugees from Southeast Asia
Effects of Hart-Cellar Act on AA community - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Changing
gender ratios
Employment
Filipina nurses
Marriages to US servicemen
War brides
2 - Employment; more professionals
,3 - residential; before 1965 people settled in the West, post 1965, in the
Northeast, South, and Midwest
4 - increased diversity with more SEA refugees coming into the country
What preferences were visa distribution based on? - CORRECT ANSWER family
reunification & employment
Family-Reunification visa preferences - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Unmarried adult
children of US citizens
2a - Spouse and unmarried children under 21 of legal permanent residents
2b - unmarried children over 21 of legal permanent residence
3 - Married children of US citizens
4 - Siblings of adult US Citizens
Only citizens can petition for arrived children and adults to enter the US, not
permanent residents
Employment-Based visa categories - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - Immigrants with
exceptional abilities (Science, athletics, art), outstanding professors or researchers,
and executives or managers of multinational companies
2 - professionals with advanced degrees or people with exceptional abilities
3 - Skilled workers, rifessionals, or other workers
4 - Special Immigrants (Middle East)
5 - Investors whose investments will create at least 10 new jobs
Impacts of 1990 amendments on AAPI - CORRECT ANSWER - favored
professionals/wealthy, hence exaggerating the growing class divide
- No visas for unskilled laborers; made it more difficult for people to come here;
contributed to increased undocumented migration & overstaying visas "Side door"
- Contributed to foreigner racialization (AAPI is predominantly foreign born)
- Maintaining ethnic enclaves
- Decreased refugees many were able to enter through family reunification
1st wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - 1975
- Mostly Elite, middle-class, educated individuals
- About 100,000 from Vietnam
- 10'000 from Cambodia & Laos
,2ns wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - 1979-mid 80s
- Less educated, often people from rural areas (overwhelmingly less elite)
- Experienced more violence, instability, and trauma
- a lot fled on foot or by sea (The best we could do)
3rd wave of SEA refugees - CORRECT ANSWER - late 80's
- Used UN program and family reunification
- 1988 Amerasian Homecoming act
- More choice of when to leave and where to settle
- More likely to be able to resettle with family
Amerasian Homecoming act - CORRECT ANSWER - 1988
- Federal law enacted in 1987 aimed at facilitating the immigration of Amerasian
(referring to someone born in East or SEA, or a SEA mother and U.S. Military
father) children born to U.S. citizens and Vietnamese mothers during the Vietnam
War
1980 refugee act - CORRECT ANSWER - US way to show humanitarianism during
Cold War
- Focused on geographic dispersal, self-sufficiency, assimilation
- Adopted UN definition of refugee
- Yearly quota at 50,000
- Established admittance procedures
- Funded resettlement
- Funding decreased by the early 1980's
How was help resettling in the U.S. based in assimilationist ideals? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Assistance with housing, language, and job training
intended for assimilation
- Initial resettlement across US to avoid burdening one area/state or forming
"ghettos"
What were difficulties SEA immigrants faced when resettling in the US? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Unfamiliar with English, US culture
- Those from rural unfamiliar with urban areas
- Downward occupational mobility
- Psychological scars/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
, - Racism
- Racialization as unassimilable foreigners
- Foreigner racialization is getting separated as a danger to the US
- Violence
How does Thi Bui's "The Best we Can do" showcase the hardships of SEA refugees?
- CORRECT ANSWER - How does her graphic novel reflect the SEA refugee
experience
- Humanizes it
Shows the trauma, father is abusive
- Artist and activist - new graphic novel on SEA refugee detention and deportation
- Supported teacher's strike in Oakland Unified School District
When was the peak of the Asian American movement's activism? (AAM) -
CORRECT ANSWER 1960's-1980's
What did AAS focus on in the 1960's? - CORRECT ANSWER Broader struggles
against racism, oppression and power
Who made up a large part of the AAM? - CORRECT ANSWER College students and
community members with organizing experience/concern for the community
Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Formed in 1968
- Co-founder coined the term "Asian American"
- re-rooted the AAM in solidarity
- pan-ethnic identity
What was the AAM fighting for overall? - CORRECT ANSWER - Social program
improvements so they meet community needs
- Housing rights (predominantly anti-evictions, think I-Hotel/Manilatown)
- Unionizing on worksites
- Education rights (Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies)
- Democratic rights
AA Issues in LA/Little Tokyo - CORRECT ANSWER - largely surrounding the issue of
displacement, similar to I-Hotel, the Sun Hotel was fighting consistent evictions
