Well-Being of Recent Migrants: The Role of Place-Based and Social Connections
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Abstract
Place-based and social connections provide a sense of belonging and can act as protective factors against stress.Following migration, disruption to these connections can be particularly challenging when facing migration-related stressors in a new place.As a result, many migrants desire to form new connections, though they often also want to maintain their original connections.It may be beneficial for migrants to find continuity between their former and current place-based and social connections, however, it is unclear how differences between these connections are reconciled.To better understand how migrants bring together former and current connections (or not), a series of mixed methods studies was conducted with recent migrants in Canada to assess the impact of place-based and social connections and how negotiating incompatibilities between former and new connections can strengthen a sense of belonging to new surroundings.Study 1 (N=67), a photovoice study, revealed that positive places provided reminders of home, upheld aspects of pre-migration identity, helped make new connections, and allowed reflection on migration experiences.Although negative places primarily represented challenges, participants often saw the value in these challenges in shaping their migration journey.Essentially, experience in positive and negative places both played a role in shaping place-based and social connections.Study 2 (N=117), a survey study, determined that place identity and social identity mediated the relationships between acculturation strategies with migrant well-being.The relationship between integration with social identity promoted well-being whereas the relationships between assimilation and marginalization with place/social identity appeared to diminish well-being.Study 3 (N=74) involved a controlled, multi-meeting intervention study that targeted the iii development of either place-based or social connections to support post-migration wellbeing.Qualitative analyses suggested that finding balance, reappropriating former connections, making situational adaptations, and relying on connections helped migrants to negotiate incompatibilities between the former and current place.In addition, providing knowledge and skills to manage place-based and social connections appeared to improve post-migration outlook.These studies underscore the potential role of placebased and social connections in resiliency during migration transition and may provide a better understanding of the variability in the incidence of well-being concerns among recent migrants.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".