The contribution of social work research to promote migration and asylum policies in Europe
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Abstract
Inspirational thoughts from social work pioneers ‘Nothing could be worse than the fear that one has given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that could have saved the world.’ Jane Addams From its very beginnings, social work has been inextricably linked with migration. The extent to which interventions with migrants were implemented in the early 20th century is highlighted throughout the pages of Mary Richmond's Social Diagnosis (1917) and Jane Addams’ Twenty years at Hull House (1910) as one of the main activities of social work pioneers. The awareness of the working conditions of migrants and how they suffered exploitation, oppression and racism outraged social work pioneers, and motivated them to challenge and condemn the injustice behind the ideology that supported the status quo. However, they soon realised that their condemnation would not be effective unless it was supported by reliable data. The chapter titled Pioneer labor legislation in Illinois from the book Twenty years at Hull House (Addams 1910, 2010: 132) clearly illustrates this idea and provides important pointers on how to lobby for political change. First pointer: awareness, outrage and ethical commitment are key elements for change, but they are not enough The settlement house in Chicago, Hull House, was deliberately set up in an immigrant quarter. The decision was made with the aim of establishing a good relationship with neighbours so that Hull House members could empathise with them and understand their context at the very grassroots level. Between Halsted Street and the river live about ten thousand Italians – Neapolitans, Sicilians and Calabrians, with an occasional Lombard or Venetian. To the south on Twelfth Street are many Germans, and side streets are given over almost entirely to Polish and Russian Jews. Still farther south, these Jewish colonies merge into a huge Bohemian colony, so vast that Chicago ranks as the third Bohemian city in the world. To the northwest are many Canadian-French, clannish in spite of their long residence in America, and to the north are Irish and firstgeneration Americans. (Addams, 1910, 2010: 64) Awareness can only be achieved by being in touch with reality and, in this case, paved the way to outrage and ethical commitment, which necessarily (and previously) requires the willingness of the practitioner to place herself out of her comfort zone to enable her to challenge uncontested narratives.
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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 | 0.024 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".