The Croatian Diaspora in North America: Identity, Ethnic Solidarity and the Formation of a "Transnational National Community"
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Abstract
T I O N is article presents the results of an empirical study examining the impact of democratization, ethnic tensions and the conflict situation in Croatia on the self-perception, ethnic homogenization, and the process by which a "transnational national community" developed among the Croatian diaspora in North America.e main methodology used in this research is a discourse analysis of articles published in the Fraternalist during the period -.e Fraternalist is the official journal of the Croatian Fraternal Union (CFU), the most influential Croatian diasporic organization in North America.For the purpose of this study, only articles describing the activities and attitudes of members of the Croatian diaspora toward their homeland were taken into consideration.Loring M. Danforth defines a diaspora as a social entity that "...consists of people who left their homeland either voluntarily or by force, and who have an awareness of constituting a minority immigrant community in the host country in which they have settled." According to Robin Cohen, the main feature that distinguishes diasporic from other kinds of immigrant communities is a strong emphasis on group identity and a refusal to totally assimilate into the host society.Members of the group are stretched between two countries and two loyalties.is is particularly the case with first generation immigrants for whom the native country is the main point of their collective thoughts and efforts.Moreover, diasporic communities tend to feel an obligation to influence the home society by all possible means. Greece, Ireland, and Israel serve as illustrative examples of the impact that diasporic communities can have on the process of struggle for a separate nation-state.In those cases, nation-state formation was supported by large, well-organized diasporic communities, which have exercised a "long tradition of active participation in the nationalist struggles of their homelands." spaces of identity /
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".