The Cosmopolitan Performers: Chinese–Indonesian Migrants in Perth, Australia
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Abstract
This paper will discuss the socio-cultural process of performance in relation to the cosmopolitan identity and imaginings of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Representing the largest visible group of Indonesian migrants in Australia, the Chinese ‘descendants’ (keturunan) perform as Indonesian traditional dancers on the Australian multicultural stage, to "celebrate the institutions of the state(s) in which [they] live" (Appiah 1997, 633). Nevertheless and perhaps inevitably, this cosmopatriot identity is often tinted with uncertainty due to the ambiguity surrounding their positioning as a legally accepted ethnic group in Indonesia. When viewed as ‘ethnic’ dancers from Jakarta, these women are seen as ‘legitimate’ cultural representatives because the Indonesian migrant community accepts the discourse of Chinese historical settlement in Jakarta, creating a cultural syncretic influence. However, their own internal sense of belonging is disrupted, particularly due to the lingering memory of the violent ‘May 1998 riots’, which targeted Chinese Indonesians. For many, the uncertainty generated by this violent episode became the reason for migration and settlement in Perth. Migration, the Australian multicultural stage, and a cosmopolitan worldview thus provide the spaces for Chinese Indonesians to express a cosmopatriotic affiliation with Indonesia despite being in a neighbouring country.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".