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Record W3183446590

Car Consumption Among Recent Immigrants and Refugees To Rural Nova Scotia: An Exploratory Study

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John Perry, Diane Scott

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of rural and community development · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of NewfoundlandSt. Francis Xavier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRefugeeImmigrationEconomic growthSettlement (finance)Rural areaPopulationConsumption (sociology)Political scienceGeographySociologyBusinessEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The problem of attracting and retaining immigrants and refugees to rural parts of Canada has recently emerged as a policy response to declining population growth outside of urban areas, with particular policy attention focused on immigration to the Atlantic Provinces. While there has been increased scholarly attention paid to the integration outcomes of recent immigrants and refugees to Canada who settle outside of major cities, the bulk of this research has focused on the settlement experiences of newcomers to smaller cities and suburban regions. Little attention has been paid to the settlement experiences of immigrants and refugees to rural parts of the country. Given the dominance of private car ownership for getting around rural Canada, this article examines how car consumption arises as a crucial component of the rural settlement process, both from the point of view of accessing services and employment, but also from the point of view of forming an affective connection to rural places. Grounded in an analysis of interviews with immigrants and refugees to North-eastern Nova Scotia, the authors develop two key findings. First, the lack of public transportation options in rural areas pushes newcomers to prioritize car ownership as a means of accessing employment and other crucial services. Second, participant narratives of car consumption reveal rural newcomers’ complex affective relationship to cars that highlight the importance of vehicles to developing a sense of independence and belonging, further underlining the role that cars play in rural Canada’s evolving identity as an immigration destination. Keywords: rural immigration, privately sponsored refugees, transportation disadvantage, car consumption, Nova Scotia ________________________________ Consommation d'automobiles parmi les immigrants et réfugiés récents dans les régions rurales de la Nouvelle-Écosse : une étude exploratoire Le problème d'attirer et de retenir des immigrants et des réfugiés dans les régions rurales du Canada est récemment apparu comme une réponse politique à la baisse de la croissance démographique à l'extérieur des zones urbaines, avec une attention politique particulière axée sur l'immigration dans les provinces de l'Atlantique. Bien que les chercheurs s'intéressent de plus en plus aux résultats de l'intégration des immigrants récents et des réfugiés au Canada qui s'installent à l'extérieur des grandes villes, la majeure partie de cette recherche s'est concentrée sur les expériences d'établissement des nouveaux arrivants dans les petites villes et les régions suburbaines. Peu d'attention a été accordée aux expériences d'établissement des immigrants et des réfugiés dans les régions rurales du pays. Compte tenu de la prédominance de la possession d'une voiture privée pour se déplacer dans le Canada rural, cet article examine comment la consommation de voiture apparaît comme une composante cruciale du processus d'établissement rural, à la fois du point de vue de l'accès aux services et à l'emploi, mais aussi du point de vue de la formation d’un lien affectif avec les lieux ruraux. À partir d'une analyse d'entrevues avec des immigrants et des réfugiés dans le nord-est de la Nouvelle-Écosse, les auteurs développent deux conclusions clés. Premièrement, le manque d'options de transport public dans les zones rurales pousse les nouveaux arrivants à privilégier la possession d'une voiture comme moyen d'accéder à l'emploi et à d'autres services essentiels. Deuxièmement, les récits des participants sur la consommation automobile révèlent la relation affective complexe des nouveaux arrivants ruraux avec les voitures qui mettent en évidence l'importance des véhicules pour développer un sentiment d'indépendance et d'appartenance, soulignant davantage le rôle que les voitures jouent dans l'identité évolutive du Canada rural en tant que destination d'immigration. Mots clés : immigration rurale, réfugiés parrainés par le secteur privé, désavantage en matière de transport, consommation de voiture, Nouvelle-Écosse

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.285
Threshold uncertainty score0.573

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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