LIVING “TRANQUILLO” IN PALERMO: Place-Making among West-African Migrants in the Historic Quarter of Ballarò
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Abstract
Through an analysis that combines anthropological theories of place and space with an ethnographic fieldwork in Palermo's historic quarter of Ballarò, I examine the process of place-making among irregular male West-African migrants.While confirming that place-making is always affected by already existing power relations in the relevant spatial context, the paper argues -contrary to the widespread tendency in anthropology to assume that people's perception of places is connected to their belonging -that spaces can be turned to places in different ways.West-African migrants in Palermo do not belong to Ballarò, but the quarter is their reference point in the city, because it is "tranquillo" and "like Africa": the paper shows how West-African migrants turn Ballarò to their place both by living it and by attaching meaning to it.Finally, while showing how irregular migrants live and therefore make their own lives in Ballarò, the paper also shows that in doing this they don't fall under the stereotypical categories of the law-breaking "villains" who enjoy their status, or of the helpless "victims" of exploitation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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