Dèyè mòn, gen mònâ: Religious Mediation in the Assimilation of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris
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Abstract
The title of my paper comes from a Haitian proverb that means beyond the mountain, there is another mountain. During the two years when I conducted research among Haitians living in Miami, Montreal and Paris, many Haitians I encountered used this proverb to express how migrating and assimilating into in a new country appears as a never-ending mountain hike from their perspective. This proverb also illustrates the essential argument I make in this paper. Although many scholars think of assimilation as immigrants joining the new political community or finding a steady job, I argue that in order to properly conceptualize immigrant assimilation we need to understand the types of associations immigrants themselves create. Among the types of institutions immigrants found, religious institutions provide a common meeting place in which they re-create their culture through shared symbols and rites. The moral authority of religious leaders encourages trust and solidarity to emerge among immigrants. For these reasons, among the myriad of possible kinds of associations immigrants can create, religious institutions help them develop solidarity with a group of peers trying to cross the same mountain en route toward political and labor market incorporation in their new society.
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Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".