Bibliographic record
Abstract
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care is a landmark book examining migrant domestic workers’ activism in Canada, in transnational forums such as the International Labor Conference’s Discussions on the Convention of Domestic Work and the International Migrants Alliance meetings, and in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Through the use of feminist interpretive methods, the author undertakes ethnographic research involving 136 one-on-one interviews and participant observation and observant participation of different moments of migrant domestic workers activism, ultimately illustrating how at the heart of it, migrant domestic worker activism is rooted in care activism. As activists, migrant domestic workers desire more than policy changes to engender material improvements in their lives. Rather, their activism revolves around the creation of communities of care that help them and their families survive and even thrive despite arduous working and living conditions, prolonged family separation, and acrimonious experiences with family reunification. In using “care activism” as an analytical framework, the book shows how affective forms of relationships inform the way migrant domestic workers interact with and relate to each other. Migrant domestic worker organizations become crucial spaces where migrant domestic workers become dissident friends who collectively contest harmful policies and structures and who bear witness to each other’s journeys.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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".