Books in their suitcases: Leisure reading in the lives of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article investigates the role of leisure reading in the acculturation process of immigrants in a new country. It analyzes empirical data collected through surveys and semi-structured interviews with a sample of Russian-speaking immigrant readers residing in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It traces the positive and negative roles of leisure reading in immigrant lives and the influence of reading on altering or supporting specific acculturation patterns. It investigates the significance of leisure reading in coping with culture shock, illuminating the humorous side of challenging situations, sharing the immigration experience of others, re-evaluating the national cultural heritage, stabilizing identity, learning about a new country, improving English-language skills, and compensating for the deficiencies in immigrant life. Informed by an innovative theoretical combination of reading and immigration scholarships, this article reveals the potential of understanding the experience of immigration through leisure reading.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.012 |
| 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