Trans-asylum: sanctioning vulnerability and gender identity across the frontier
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
While legal and humanitarian discourses underscore Central American trans refugees’ vulnerabilities, individuals are often unable to access rights and protection. In this article, I address this seeming paradox by analyzing how trans asylum seekers navigate and at times contest vulnerability discourses framing deservingness of asylum. Based on interview data and longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss continuities of trans asylum seekers’ experiences in humanitarian spaces and punitive spaces as they encounter policies, institutions and actors that purport to protect them. I argue that, however ineffective, humanitarian discourses and legal provisions impact the formation and transformation of trans asylum seekers’ bodies. Indeed, they succeed in sanctioning transness, in the sense of both permitting it authoritatively and punishing it. I analyze these effects through the lens of “legal violence” – i.e. the direct, structural and symbolic violence that the law authorizes and legitimates, concluding that trans experiences illuminate the broader violence of asylum.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it