Threats from Within and Threats from Without: Wet’suwet’en Protesters, Irregular Asylum Seekers and the On-Going Reproduction of Settler Colonialism in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>This essay seeks to address the'immigrant-Aboriginal parallax gap' by considering the ways in which the popular media frames Indigenous protesters and irregular asylum seekers. Using the work of previous studies of Oka/Kanasatake, Ipperwash and Caledonia and the irregular boat arrivals of Fujian and Tamil asylum seekers, it identifies similarities in the ways that each group was racialized, criminalized, delegitimized and constructed as the 'Other' in the popular media. Employing the theoretical frameworks of settler colonialism and securitization theory, it goes on to examine whether the same frames persist in contemporary representations using the case studies of Wet’suwet’en protesters and irregular asylum seekers crossing the border at Roxham Road. A comparative discourse analysis finds that the media continues to frame Indigenous protesters and irregular asylum seekers as threats to the 'rule of law' and the 'common good',</p> <p>reconstituting acts that are fundamentally rights affirming --including the right to peaceful protest and the right to claim asylum-- into threats to Canada's sovereignty, thus necessiating state action.</p>
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".