Un/settling Im/migrants: Towards Decolonising Immigrant-Indigenous Relationships
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Immigrants with varying histories and diasporic journeys become complicit, knowingly or unknowingly, in the ongoing processes of colonisation on/of indigenous peoples, communities and lands in Turtle Island (i.e., North America). Immigrants have different histories, experiences and relationships with/on settled lands, depending on their gender, caste, class, race, religion, sexuality, labour, national, citizenship/status, and colonial/ised identities, but their place on indigenous lands is complicated and facilitated by colonialism, capitalism and racial and gendered hierarchies. Indigenous peoples colonised and displaced from their lands, often become diasporic within urban spaces of settler states. Thus urban becomes an interesting site to look at the relationships between indigenous and immigrant community/s for the following three reasons. Firstly, urban is the primary site of encounter for both community/s within the racialised ‘multicultural’ colonial state; secondly, both community/s are rendered diasporic in the urban; and lastly, due to the socio-political geographies of urban lands, the questions about indigenous land get blurred. Hence I will situate the chapter within the geographies of urban lands and relationships. Further building on the works of Lawrence and Dua, in particular their analysis of settler-of-colour relationships on indigenous lands and call for decolonising of anti-racism works, the chapter will focus on how immigrants-of-colour negotiate the colonial processes of Canada. The chapter will explore how immigrants from erstwhile colonies articulate, express, negotiate, and live on colonised indigenous lands and how these relationships are negotiated in the urban. Through these questions, the chapter seeks to decolonise postcolonial theory, as the realities of indigenous struggles are predominantly excluded from postcolonial enquiry. Postcolonial theory’s persistent preoccupation with the postcolonial context often fails to provide a critical perspective on the colonial processes in the contexts of Western settlers.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 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".