Rethinking Queer Migration: The Case of Skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants in North America
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Queer migration scholarship has established sexuality as an important axis of power that shapes and is shaped by migration processes. To further conceptualize how and when sexuality matters, this article bridges queer migration with other modes of migration. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 48 skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ migrants in North America, I examine the organization of sexuality in queer migration through the pathway of international student migration/mobility. My findings reveal how sexuality has transitioned from hidden to affirmed, and finally to unconstrained across three stages of the migration trajectory in shifting institutional contexts. By examining the temporal variation of queerness in the process of migration, I show the co-evolution of identity and mobility mediated by migration pathways.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it