The social organisation of queer / trans migrations: the everyday experiences of queer and trans migrants with precarious status
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This doctoral study explores the ways in which the Canadian immigration regime socially organizes the everyday lives of queer and trans migrants with precarious status. Precarious status includes visitors, international students, temporary foreign workers, refugee claimants and protected persons, along with those detained and undocumented. Drawing from key theoretical insights from Marxist and critical race and Marxist-feminisms, along with queer diasporic critique, this study traces the historical and transnational conditions of the heterocisnormative violence that compel queer and trans people to migrate from the Global South to Canada. This dissertation applies an adapted institutional ethnography methodology and conducts interviews in concert with textual analysis of key policy and media texts in order to map out the generalized social character of precarious status for queer and trans migrants. By engaging in a reflexive research process, the findings begin with the entrée to the study and subsequently introduce participant narratives and migration trajectories to Canada. By starting with actual experiences, the findings reveals how queer and trans migrants enter the Canadian immigration regime, along with how they shift between precarious status, lose status and/or enter detention. The findings also examine the disjuncture between ideological accounts of precarious status and the actualities of queer and trans migrant life. This study concludes by proposing key recommendations related to social work policy, practice and research in the area of queer / trans migrations and considers the implications for social movement building with queer and trans migrant communities.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".