Re-envisioning Resilience from African Immigrants’ Perspectives
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Abstract
Investigations into immigrant resilience are now being called for in scholarly reviews of literature, policy, and practice related to immigrants, following decades in which the challenges they face in or pose to Western host societies took centre stage. Focusing on resilience not only recognizes immigrants’ strengths and contributions to their new homelands, but also creates a fertile landscape to explore possible pathways to optimize migration outcomes. The findings of focus group discussions with African immigrant stakeholders (service providers, community/religious leaders, and staff of policy-making bodies) in three Canadian cities align with this new emphasis. However, these findings also raise crucial questions about current conceptualizations of resilience applied to immigrants. Our thematic analysis indicates that African immigrants attach meanings, processes, and values to resilience that differ from conceptions of resilience in the scholarly literature. Their viewpoints and lived experiences presented below offer new understandings that prompt a re-evaluation of currently held assumptions about resilience rooted in Western individualistic notions about mental health. These assumptions, our study show, do not capture African immigrants’ settlement experiences and long-term adaptation to life in Western nations—as collectivist cultures. Résumé: Des enquêtes sur la résilience des immigrants sont désormais nécessaires dans les revues savantes de la littérature, des politiques et des pratiques liées aux immigrants, après des décennies au cours desquelles les défis rencontrés ou imposés par les sociétés d'accueil occidentales se sont hissés en première ligne. Réfléchir sur la résilience atteste non seulement les forces et les contributions des immigrants à leur nouvelle patrie, mais crée également un paysage fertile pour explorer les voies possibles pour optimiser les résultats de la migration. Les conclusions des groupes de discussion avec des organismes d'immigrants africains (fournisseurs de services, chefs communautaires / religieux et personnel des organes de décision) dans trois villes canadiennes correspondent à cette nouvelle orientation. Cependant, ces résultats soulèvent également des questions cruciales sur les conceptualisations actuelles de la résilience appliquées aux immigrants. Notre analyse thématique indique que les immigrants africains attachent à la résilience des significations, des processus et des valeurs qui diffèrent des conceptions de la résilience dans la littérature scientifique. Leurs points de vue et leurs expériences vécues présentés ci-dessous offrent de nouvelles compréhensions qui incitent à réévaluer les hypothèses actuelles sur la résilience enracinées dans les notions individualistes occidentales sur la santé mentale. Ces hypothèses, notre étude le montre, ne saisissent pas les expériences d’établissement des immigrants africains et leur adaptation à long terme à la vie dans les pays occidentaux - en tant que cultures collectivistes.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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".