Bibliographic record
Abstract
The results of the VULNER project that are discussed in this book, with the enormous advantage of being able, quite rightly, to claim to be based to a very large extent on first-hand observations in situ gleaned from a very wide variety of contexts, do not point a finger at anyone specifically, but make it absolutely clear that without a reasoning that is deeply rooted in the empirical reality of humanitarian migration, any concept-in this case that of vulnerability-runs the risk of not being able to achieve what it was designed to do, namely to genuinely protect the weakest.The fact of the matter is that, in practice, the concept of vulnerability acts as a filter, one that is certainly in the interests of a large number of destination countries.One could not be more cynical.One of the great merits of the book's authors, who worked together at a steady pace for three years, is that they succeeded in subjecting a central concept of European asylum and immigration policy to a 'reality check'.The result is certainly a highly disconcerting observation.At the same time, it is an invitation to proceed in the same way with other fundamental concepts/aspects/principles underlying migration policy in Europe, whether that of the European Union or of the individual Member States.Let us make no mistake: the conditions for survival in an everincreasing number of countries around the world are such that it is perfectly understandable that people look for ways out for themselves and their families.In their place, everyone would do the same.A policy that is formulated in an exclusively reactive way does not provide the answer, or else it is overstretched, as the authors have demonstrated through their study of the practical application, in an everyday context, of the concept of vulnerability.In the coming years, throughout Europe and at EU level, the real challenge will be to review the coexistence of a policy dictated strictly by economic needs-not only of the countries of destination but also of the people's countries of origin-and a policy that considers humanitarian protection as a truly equal priority and that is meant to benefit those who are truly in need of protection.At the closing conference of the VULNER project on 9 June 2023, James C. Hathaway suggested that anyone, especially those seeking humanitarian protection, should be treated as a priority.This should be feasible in the medium term, provided that the interests at stake are rebalanced, with priority being given to enabling the countries of origin to offer their local populations realistic prospects for a not-too-distant future.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".