Only if She Shows Her Face: Canadian Media Portrayals of the Niqab Ban during Citizenship Ceremonies
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Abstract
On 12 December 2011, the Canadian government banned the niqab in citizenship ceremonies. Now women who wear full-face veils are required to remove them while they swear their citizenship oath to Canada. This paper examines the veiling debate in the media during the weeks following the Canadian ban of the niqab during citizenship ceremonies. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, I assess the dominant perspectives contained in 80 Canadian newspaper articles and governmental news releases focused upon the December announcement of the ban. I argue that banning the niqab during citizenship ceremonies is detrimental to Muslim women because those who wear the full-face veil may now be reluctant to obtain citizenship. Moreover, based upon the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , this event illustrates how Canada only incorporates cultural practices perceived as congruent with mainstream expectations of minority and immigrant integration. Le 12 décembre 2011, le gouvernement canadien a interdit le port du nigab pendant les cérémonies de citoyenneté. Actuellement, les femmes qui se voilent intégralement le visage sont tenues de les enlever afin de prêter leur serment de citoyenneté au Canada. Ce papier examine les débats sur le port du voile dans les médias au cours des semaines qui ont suivi l’interdiction du nigab pendant les cérémonies de citoyenneté. En utilisant l’analyse critique du discours, j’évalue les perspectives dominantes contenues dans 80 articles de journaux canadiens et les communiqués de presses gouvernementales, axés sur l’annonce de l’interdiction de décembre. Je postule que l’interdiction du nigab lors des cérémonies de citoyenneté est préjudiciable aux femmes musulmanes, parce que celles qui portent le voile intégral pourraient devenir réticentes à l’obtention de la citoyenneté. En plus, selon la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés , cet évènement illustre comment le Canada n’incorpore que les cultures perçues comment en harmonie avec les attentes courantes de la minorité et l’intégration des immigrants.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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