“The sky is the limit. So I just hope, one day, I will reach my destiny:” hope, uncertainty, and disillusionment among LGBTQ + migrants in South Africa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative study utilized arts-based methods to explore how LGBTQ + migrants in South Africa reconcile their expectations with their post-migration realities. Twenty-six pictures, created by LGBTQ + migrants (ages 19-39), were analyzed with their accompanying narratives to document participants’ experiences. Thematic and narrative analyses starting with the sensitizing concepts of hope, uncertainty, and disillusionment yielded three themes: (a) Yearning for freedom and acceptance before and after migration; (b) Dealing with uncertainty, disillusionment, and the grim realities of being an LGBTQ + migrant; and (c) Retaining hope for the future amid pain and struggle. Feeling isolated, participants yearned for societal acceptance and freedom to be themselves. This motivated their migration, but once in South Africa, they faced many social-structural challenges and developed feelings of disillusionment. Still, several retained hope, imagining safety and freedom not as an unreachable destination but as a future yet to come. Research and practice implications are discussed.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".