Syrian Refugees in Canada and Transculturalism: Relationship between Media, Integration and Identity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The process of integration of Syrian newcomers into Canada is multifaceted. The Canadian government, in its efforts to welcome refugees, has provided services that smooth this process over on many fronts. While financial and support services are essential to feelings of comfort, safety and security, feelings of identity and belonging constitute a never-ending process. In a globalized world, country of residence can easily change, but attachment to issues in the country of origin enlists a much more complex relationship. This article seeks to explore Syrian newcomers’ pre-migration and post-migration experiences and the influence of such experiences on their sense of belonging and identification. This article also seeks to understand their media-consumption habits. In doing so, the level of involvement of Syrian refugees in issues of host society versus issues in Syria or the Arab world becomes apparent. Through highlighting their level of involvement, this research hopes to uncover the feelings of responsibility to democratic change and the revolutionary process in Syria.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".