Hindu Transnational Families: Transformation and Continuity in Diaspora Families
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transnational contexts enable the emergence of new forms of family organization expressed through different family configurations, thus reshaping gender roles within the family. Therefore, former norms related to daily family and social relations traditionally conditioned by gender and age, become an object of transformation. This paper analyzes the Hindu-Gujarati transnationality through two perspectives: one that understands family transformations through social-cultural adaptations to different host societies, and another that takes into account social, spatial and housing mobility. Given the fact that Hindu-Gujarati diasporic families live in three or more countries at the same time, they constitute a particularly rich context to combine theoretic perspectives on transnationality, mobility and diaspora, perspectives that are usually addressed in parallel and not in a combined manner. The paper stresses importance to physically accompany individuals in their process of territorial and cultural mobility, i.e., between Portugal, India and other centers of the diaspora. Within this multiple context, the study seeks to answer several questions: Given the diversity of studies within transnationalism, what dimensions and new reflections can the ethnographic observation of these families bring to the social sciences? In the migrant condition, how are family relations with distant relatives, configured and maintained? Are there specificities in the way Hindu families in Portugal adapt to communicational and information technologies, or do they follow the trends of other transnational families?
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".