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Record W1601055226 · doi:10.14264/185163

'Astronaut' wives : their experiences in Brisbane

2004· dissertation· en· W1601055226 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Man Wai. Chang

Bibliographic record

VenueThe University of Queensland · 2004
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmigrationSnowball samplingImmigrationSettlement (finance)Gender studiesGeographyPolitical scienceDemographic economicsSociologyMedicineBusinessLaw

Abstract

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Based on in-depth interviews with five Hong Kong Chinese women immigrants in Brisbane, this thesis examines the effects of'astronaut' migration on the wellbeing of these women in terms of the changes brought to their family roles. 'Astronaut' migration refers to the settlement pattern of Hong Kong and Taiwan people who immigrated to Australia, Canada, New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s. The breadwinners of these families return to the places of origin for their business or career, with their wives responsible for most of the childcare and home management duties in the host country. The men visit their wives and children a few times a year. Being frequent flyers, they are referred to as 'astronauts'.By means of snowball sampling, I have interviewed five 'astronaut' wives who have lived in Brisbane for more than three years. They talked freely about the changes to their family roles brought about by 'astronaut' migration.Much literature on migration states that women immigrants are in an oppressed position. They are usually regarded as the victims in the migration process, suffering from employment instability, demanding childcare and domestic duties and loss of family support. However, the respondents in this study presented different stories.It was found that though political uncertainty of Hong Kong beyond 1997 was the main reason for their decision to emigrate, most respondents chose to stay on even after they had obtained Australian passports. They enjoyed their new life in Brisbane in spite of the separation from their husbands. Originating from middle-class Hong Kong families, these respondents had strong financial backup that freed them from the struggle between paid-work and childcare demands. They enjoyed freedom that they might not have experienced in the traditional Hong Kong patriarchal family system. Changes in family roles and responsibilities did bring pressure but migration was in general favorable to them.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.448
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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