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Record W4389489114 · doi:10.1080/13229400.2023.2283493

African single mothers and their children in Canada: transnational experiences and sources of support

2023· article· en· W4389489114 on OpenAlex
Mary Olukotun, Alleson Mason, Christa Fouche, Solina Richter, Lindiwe Sibeko, Sheri Adekola, Bukola Salami

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Family Studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsHumber PolytechnicUniversity of WinnipegUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity of Alberta
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsImmigrationGovernment (linguistics)Settlement (finance)Qualitative researchSubsidyPopulationWork (physics)Single mothersSociologyPublic relationsPolitical scienceGender studiesEconomic growthPsychologySocial scienceDevelopmental psychology

Abstract

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African immigrants comprise an increasing proportion of Canada’s immigrant population and face myriad challenges upon arrival. There are few studies that examine the experiences of African single-parents and their struggles as they try to integrate into Canadian society with their children. This qualitative study sought to highlight the experiences of single mothers and their children. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 15 participants comprising eight children and seven mothers. Demographic questionnaires were used to gather background information about each participant. Some of the challenges the mothers experienced included lack of recognition of their foreign educational credentials and work experience, under-employment, financial insecurity, and lack of mental health support networks in Canada. The participants’ sources of support included immigrant settlement agencies, schools, government subsidies, faith communities, and their extended family members outside of Canada. The data demonstrate a need to ensure expeditious assessment, and where warranted, recognition of immigrants’ foreign educational and work experience to facilitate access to their professional careers. There is also a need to establish culturally responsive supports to foster the wellbeing of immigrants.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.740
Threshold uncertainty score0.969

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.249 · 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