Dreaming the Departure Together: Building the Myth among Young Somali Refugees
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many young Somali refugees experience long premigration waits and a pourly delimitated transition period before reaching their final distination. During with difficult period, a myth of departure is collectively constructed and serves as a mobilizing dream that orients individual strategies. This substitution of “dream travel” for real travel during the transition period may cause Somali youths to lose contact with reality and to slide into madness. The authors’ approach is based on three assumptions: a) that pastoralism predisposes the Somali to value travel as a way of maturing; b) that age-based peer groups created special migratory dynamics, and c) that an ethic of solidarity involves many people in the adventure of a migrant youth. When trapped in an indefinite transition, young men share qaat-chewing sessions during which they relate success stories and dreams of leaving. Many grow frustrated with the delay, and if their departure plans fall through, the dream trip often becomes dream madness. Actual cases illustrate how some young Somali get lost in their dreams. Data were collected in the Horn of Africa and in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".