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Record W4282027283 · doi:10.1080/01436597.2022.2074827

Totally<i>napse</i>: aspirations of mobility in Essau, the Gambia

2022· article· en· W4282027283 on OpenAlexaff
Cathy Conrad Suso

Bibliographic record

VenueThird World Quarterly · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsSaint Mary's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVernacularSociologyPolitical sciencePolitical economyDevelopment economicsEconomics

Abstract

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Many Gambians have a strong desire to travel internationally, and often risk their lives embarking on the so-called ‘back way’. But what of those with the strong desire but for whom foreign visas are elusive or next to impossible to acquire? For most West Africans, getting a visa to a western country is an extraordinarily difficult or even impossible feat. This paper is about the impacts of involuntary immobility in Essau, a small community in the Gambia, West Africa. But the case of this place extends beyond the borders of this one region, because this is the fate for increasing populations around the world. ‘Totally napse’ refers to the local vernacular that Gambians use to express their sense of hopelessness that often results from being rendered immobile. Youth who want to travel so desperately that they can’t think of much else are referred to as having the ‘nerves syndrome’ or having ‘nerves’ or being napse.

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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)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.161
Threshold uncertainty score0.320

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.004
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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.261 · 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 designQualitative
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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