Mediated Citizenship and Contested Belongings: Canadian War Brides and the Fictions of Naturalization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When they arrived in Halifax at the end of the Second World War, newly-married or engaged to Canadian servicemen, the war brides were welcomed as exemplary new citizens and media darlings. Sixty years later, Canada officially honoured these women’s war work and reconstruction efforts, commemorating The Year of the War Bride with ceremonies at Halifax’s Pier 21—and more news media coverage. But somewhere along the way, between 1946 and 2006, as immigration and naturalization legislation was redrafted, the war brides got caught in a citizenship quagmire and many of their claims to citizenship were denied. In the summer of 2006, the media picked up on what had emerged as a gap in citizenship statutes, and widespread reportage shaped public discourse about the war brides’ struggle for full enfranchisement. This paper describes the importance of mass media, marriage and migrant networks to the war brides’ ongoing quest to gain secure legal status and Canadian citizenship.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".