Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema and Mark J. Goodman. Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema and Mark J. Goodman. Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in and Beyond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 223 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 hc; $24.95 sc. This book examines the settlement of peoples with Muslim backgrounds, originating in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Palestine. Whereas all four groups are studied in the primary Canadian context, they are also researched in comparative settings: Afghans in Iran, Iranians and Pakistanis in the UK, and Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories and Jordan. The book aimed at making sense of the interacting elements that sharpen awareness of cultural marginality and assessing its impact on the sense of belonging and on the harmonious integration into the new country for the individuals involved (xii). The subjects' status in countries of origin, Canada, and the comparative settings was examined in the context of the socio-economic development of the receiving country and its refugee, immigration, and settlement policies. Data was collected using questionnaires, oral interviews, and focus groups. The Canadian research locations were Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Analyses of community publications, community organizations, and census data were also conducted. Information on migration patterns, gender, marital status, education, employment, occupation, and income make for robust community profiles. The proportions of people with superior levels of educational attainment tended to be higher in than in the other countries under study. This seems to indicate that a pecking order is in operation with respect to the preferred country of settlement, according to the authors: better educated and financially secure individuals have a better chance of settling in prosperous locations like Canada. The influence of religion in shaping gender roles and hierarchies in families was studied. Whereas the findings were mixed regarding the behavioural effects of the subjects' religious commitment, the majority of female respondents said that the sharing of decision-making and the division of household responsibilities with their spouses were reasonable (81). The authors state that variable social factors, other than religion, result in heterogeneity of behaviour among individuals in the various groups. Youth in the four communities experience significant levels of discrimination in Canadian society, particularly with respect to the terrorist stereotype. Nevertheless, they tend to become part of the fabric of Canada (142), becoming familiar with language and customs, adopting popular Canadian views on contemporary issues and integrating into the dominant culture. …
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 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".