“Journey to Freedom Day Act”: The making of the Vietnamese subject in Canada and the erasure of the Vietnam War
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Abstract
The Journey to Freedom Day Act (S-219), which passed on April 23 rd 2015, marks the national day of commemoration of the exodus of Vietnamese refugees and their acceptance into Canada. The seemingly innocuous act of a national commemorative day masks the politicizing of the Vietnamese subject and aids in the erasure of the Vietnam War. A critical review of the parliamentary debates during the passage of this Bill over twelve months will reveal the systemic reliance on a Cold War discourse to act as a veil, concealing the making of the Vietnamese subject as grateful refugees, who actively reject communism and laud (western) democracies. The focus on this singular discourse facilitates the erasure of the Vietnam War and Canada’s complicity in the war. Critical discourse analysis is used to examine the parliamentary text and findings are discussed using the theoretical lens of Cold War epistemology. This allows us to analyze the construction of the Vietnamese subject in relation to Canada, along frameworks of meaning making deeply rooted in the events and effects of the Cold War. I will comment on how social policy as a knowledge producing technology upholds and reproduces subject positions, thereby contributing to conditions of conflict within groups. “Loi sur la Journee du Parcours vers la liberte”: la construction du sujet vietnamien au Canada et l'effacement de la guerre du Vietnam Resume La l oi sur la Journee du Parcours vers la liberte (Bill S-219) a ete adoptee le 23 avril 2015, marque la journee nationale de commemoration de l'exode des refugies vietnamiens et de leur arrivee au Canada. Cet acte, qui peut paraitre anodin, d'une journee de commemoration nationale masque la politisation du sujet vietnamien et aide a achever l'effacement de la guerre du Vietnam. Une revue critique des debats parlementaires pendant le passage de cette loi, sur une periode de 12 mois, permettra de montrer que la creation du sujet vietnamien comme etant un refugie reconnaissant qui rejette activement le communisme et embrasse la democratie (de l'Ouest), depend de maniere systemique sur un discours issue de la guerre froide. La dependance sur ce discours unique, facilite l'effacement de la guerre du Vietnam et le role qu'a jouer le Canada dans celle-ci. Mon examen de textes parlementaires utilise une analyse du discours critique, et les donnees sont interrogees en utilisant la perspective theorique de l'epistemologie de la guerre froide. Ceci permet d'analyser la construction du sujet vietnamien comme existant en relation avec le Canada, et appliquant des cadres de connaissances profondement enracines dans l'historique et les consequences de la guerre froide. Je propose que la politique sociale, en tant que technologie productrice du savoir, reifie et reproduit des sujets particuliers, et donc contribue aux conditions qui creent des conflits a l'interieur des groupes. Mots clefs : vietnamien; refugies; epistemologie de la guerre froide
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".