Transnational Citizenship Mobilization among Canadian Arab Youth: An Engaged Social Movement for Change in the Middle East
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Abstract
In the wake of the Arab Revolutions, much has been said about the pivotal role that Arab youth played in mobilizing citizens against autocratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Less attention has been paid to the role played by engaged transnational Arab youth during this period. Canadian Arab youth offer an excellent case study to investigate the kinds of activities that youth social movements invest in to transnationally mobilize citizenship across borders, and in the process, how they expand forms of autonomy, solidarity, and mutual concern, and thus transform civil society and citizenship capacity-building among diverse networks in society. For this paper, we draw upon a cross-Canada survey conducted with Canadian Arab youth, as well as focus groups with Arab youth in Ottawa and Montreal. We argue, based on their work advocating, networking, educating, boycotting, and physically protesting, that Canadian Arab youth represent a highly diffused and engaged newly emerging social movement whose transnational activism with or for social movements and government, or multi-lateral institutions represent forms of cross-national citizenship mobilization. Canadian Arab youth, as a social movement, are emergent political subjectivities mobilizing citizenship capacities locally and in the MENA. Their impact is not large, right now, as upon supranational institutions, however, the breadth of their activities underscore their hope in their capacity to initiate meaningful change. Résumé: À la suite du Printemps arabe, il a été beaucoup état du rôle crucial que la jeunesse arabe a joué dans la mobilisation des citoyens contre les régimes autocratiques au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord (MENA). Cependant, moins d'attention a été accordé au rôle joué par la jeunesse arabe engagée et transnationale au cours de cette période. Les jeunes Canadiens d'origine arabe constituent une excellente étude de cas sur les types d'activités dans lequel les mouvements sociaux de jeunes s'investissent afin de mobiliser de manière transnationale la citoyenneté à travers les frontières et, ce faisant, sur la manière dont ils développent des formes d'autonomie, de solidarité et de préoccupation mutuelle, transformant ainsi la société civile et renforçant les capacités de la société et de la citoyenneté par le biais des divers réseaux sociétaux. Pour cet article, nous nous appuyons sur un sondage pancanadien mené auprès de jeunes Canadiens d'origine arabe, ainsi que sur des focus groups avec des jeunes arabes à Ottawa et à Montréal. En nous basant sur leurs travaux de plaidoyer, de réseautage, d'éducation, de boycott et de protestation physique, nous soutenons que la jeunesse arabe canadienne représente un mouvement social émergent très diffus et très engagé dont l'activisme transnational avec, ou pour les mouvements sociaux et les institutions gouvernementales ou multilatérales représente des formes de mobilisation transnationale de la citoyenneté. Les jeunes Canadiens d'origine arabe, en tant que mouvement social, sont des subjectivités politiques émergentes mobilisant des capacités de citoyenneté aux niveaux local et dans la région MENA. Leur impact n'est pas important, à l'heure actuelle, sur les institutions supranationales. Cependant, l'ampleur de leurs activités souligne leur espoir de pouvoir initier des changements significatifs.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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 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".