Identity and Intergenerational Transmission of Culture: A Study of the Italian Diaspora Across Three Countries
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Abstract
Focussing in the first instance on knowledge and understandings of family mobility, settlement and adaptation experiences, the project was designed to contribute to the scholarship of construction of a sense of being or feeling Italian or of italianità [Italianness], and the ongoing transformation of cultural and national (host country) identification. Second, the study captures the significance or otherwise of the transmission of culture intergenerationally for the group of descendants living as part of an Italian diasporic community away from ‘home’. The third component reveals how participants manage the tensions between national and cultural identities given that most participants were not born in Italy, generally not fluent in Italian, and few renewed or had acquired Italian citizenship, yet many used the term Italian to describe themselves, all asserting a cogent belief in their own italianità. The project centres on descendants of Italians who emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy, arrived and made their home in one of three major settlements. Melbourne, Australia; Toronto, Canada and Pittsburgh, United States of America. It draws on a data set of seventy-nine personal narratives, across four generations, to provide insight into identity and how Italian culture has been maintained and/or transmitted across these generations and sites. \n \nOne of the key aspects of the qualitative process in this study was the place of emotion. This was apparent from the outset where participants were very keen, excited in fact, to contribute to the research. Ongoing emotion was potently galvanised through the interview where nostalgia garnered memories of experiences and of people. Extracts of participant interviews included in the analysis (and throughout the thesis) elucidate this factor. Collectively, the participant cohort overwhelmingly identified in ways that demonstrated an enduring power of some type of Italian belonging which is explained as having an acute awareness of the significance of intergenerational transmission of cultural heritage, evincing themselves as vigorous collaborators in ensuring it is maintained.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".