Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article contributes to research on forced migration and transnationalism through an analysis of community organizing experiences of Colombians in Canada. The article draws on research conducted for two projects in three Canadian cities and seeks to highlight and explain variation in collective forms of transnational political engagement across these settings. Case studies of Colombian community organizing in Toronto, Sherbrooke, and Vancouver show how the characteristics, historical context, and geopolitics of the conflict in the home country influence whether and how Colombians recreate a sense of nationally based community and engage in organized initiatives beyond borders. We also identify differences in forms of engagement and disengagement with the homeland and argue that (1) immigrant and refugee entrance categories, (2) demographic, institutional and other characteristics of the context of reception, (3) social dynamics of trust and mistrust influencing everyday relations and networks among refugees, and (4) the type of reception and solidarity practices directed toward particular groups of refugees from local civil society and settlement organizations critically influence the desire and capacity of Colombians to engage in transnational initiatives. Our analysis offers insight into the variable and wide-ranging experiences of political transnational engagement by refugees, particularly when conflict is multi-polar, ongoing, and unresolved. Our findings are also relevant to discussions about mobilizing diasporas for peace building and related initiatives.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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