Congolese mothers, affective circuits and ‘acts of citizenship’ in Russia
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Abstract
With the intensified flow of refugees seeking asylum across Europe in recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the encounter between non-citizens and citizens. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia (2015–2019) among non-citizens, including Congolese asylum-seekers, this article examines how Congolese women foster affective ties as a means of creating a sense of belonging in a largely unwelcoming place. In considering how asylum-seeking, Congolese women in Moscow invest in ‘affective circuits’ forged through their children as they move through the city, navigating NGOs, citizen-activists, and forms of state power, the article argues that these are political acts. These acts are shaped by racialized citizenship practices, as well as distinctive politics of reproduction in Russia.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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