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______ are people who are forced to flee for safety reasons from their country of origin due to war, fear of persecution, or famine. 

Nazim is a 25-year-old French citizen of Algerian descent. While he wants to be part of French society, he experiences racism and lack of employment opportunity as a son of immigrant parents. He also feels that he does not belong to Algerian culture because people in Algerian community perceive him as “too French.” Nazim’s migrant-host relationship can be best described as 

Media can be defined as the ___________ through which messages are communicated.

Nina is interested in gaining insight into negotiated and oppositional readings about current events. She is likely to find these perspectives from which of the following sources? 

Sean loves the movie Titanic because of its universal appeal to the power of love. He is engaging in

The melting pot metaphor

Tourists who visit Mardi Gras in New Orleans are unaware of the harsh working conditions experienced by young factory workers in China who produce many of the products that are consumed at the festival. Instead, tourists enjoy the festivity through the consumption of products that satisfy their desire for experiences. This is an example of ___________ of commodities.

The ______ wave of migration took place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s during the Industrial Revolution, when peasants from the rural parts of Europe, fleeing poverty and famine, migrated to urban areas in Europe and North and South America.  

The predominance of U.S. media and popular culture internationally has 

_____ context communication is one where most of the information is already in the person, while very little is in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message.