Learning to be a majority: Negotiating immigration, integration and national membership in Quebec
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
AbstractPolitical leaders in Quebec have long grappled with the question of how immigrants and diversity fit into an already contested national identity. This article explores how Quebec’s elites have negotiated immigrant-generated diversity over three decades. The article argues that to make sense of Quebec’s policy-making we need to understand the interplay of different strands of collective identity. Quebec’s policies are shaped both by relational comparisons made with the ‘rest of Canada’ and by the aspiration to be a legitimate actor on the international stage. In contrast to studies suggesting sub-state nations such as Quebec either exclude migrants or are progressively more open to them, the analysis here shows that policies result from political elites’ constant balancing of different conceptions of national identity — as state-like actor, as minority claimant relative to the federal government, as diffident majority defining itself. In turn, migration policy choices themselves are used as a nation-building tool vis-à-vis federal Canada.Keywordsimmigration policyinterculturalismnational identityQuebec
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 it