Creative Integration: Persian Bahá’í Newcomers in New Brunswick
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Abstract
Our paper analyzes the experiences of Persian Baha’is who arrived more than twenty years ago and stayed in New Brunswick. We conducted seven interviews involving ten people. This paper presents a widely ignored aspect of immigrant life: namely, the creativity that immigrants use to overcome local residents’ hesitancy in reaching out to them in friendship. This paper further analyzes two aspects of these immigrants’ arrival that account for their success. First, the receiving Baha’i communities integrated them immediately into the social and administrative affairs of their communities. Second, the immigrants’ recent spiritual connection to the birth place of the Baha’i faith became the means of Canadian Baha’is to welcome their brothers and sisters from Iran. Resume L’article analyse l’experience qu’ont connu les Persans Baha’is qui se sont installes ici, au Nouveau-Brunswick, il y a plus de vingt ans et qui y sont restes. Nous avons mene sept entrevues avec dix personnes. L’article presente une facette souvent meconnue de la vie des immigrants : notamment la creativite dont ils doivent faire preuve afin de vaincre les hesitations des residents de la region pour se lier d’amitie avec eux. De plus, cet article analyse deux aspects de l’arrivee de ces immigrants qui favorisent leur reussite. D’abord, les communautes d’accueil baha’i ont integre immediatement les immigres dans les affaires sociales et administratives de leur communaute. Ensuite, les liens spirituels recents des immigrants envers leur pays natal ont contribue a ce que les Baha’i Canadiens accueillent leurs freres et sœurs de l’Iran.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".