In Search of Inclusion and Recognition: Immigrant Experiences in the Search for Professional Employment in Durham Region, Ontario
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Abstract
Abstract: In recent years, municipal governments across Canada have made efforts to attract and retain newcomers in mid-size cities. This paper reports on a community-based photovoice research project to explore immigrant experiences securing professional employment in Durham Region, Ontario. Nine immigrants from diverse origins provided their photographs and written reflections and participated in semi-structured individual interviews and focus groups; they discussed the images representing their experiences in more depth and proposed calls for action to facilitate needed changes. The whole research cycle was informed by feminist intersectionality to illuminate the role of macro-structural forces operating in the socio-economic context of immigrant lives. The project findings testify to (1) the existing services' failure in assisting immigrants to face systemic challenges: find meaningful learning opportunities, create strong networks, and address bureaucratic demands; (2) the experiences of rejection, judgement, misrecognition, and devaluation of immigrants from recruiters, employers, employment services staff and residents; and (3) the resistance of these challenges by the immigrants through perseverance, positive outlook, and support of family and compatriot community. These findings make it clear that having services that focus on individual job search or professional skills is insufficient: solutions require the participation of the entire society. They highlight the urgency of municipal action to change the local social and service provision climate by including immigrant voices and experience in decision-making about services and policy development and educating social and employment services personnel, employers and the community in anti-racism and immigrant experience. Résumé: Ces dernières années, les autorités municipales du Canada se sont efforcées d'attirer et de retenir les nouveaux arrivants dans les villes de densité moyenne. Cet article rend compte d'un projet de recherche communautaire de transcription vocale visant à explorer les expériences des immigrants en matière d'obtention d'un emploi professionnel dans la région de Durham, en Ontario. Neuf immigrants d'origines diverses ont fourni leurs copies vocales et leurs réflexions écrites et ont participé à des entretiens individuels semi-structurés et à des groupes de discussion ; ils ont discuté plus profondément des images représentant leurs expériences et ont proposé des appels à l'action pour faciliter les changements nécessaires. L'ensemble du cycle de recherche s'est appuyé sur l'intersectionnalité féministe pour mettre en lumière le rôle des forces macro-structurelles qui agissent dans le contexte socio-économique de la vie des immigrants. Les résultats du projet témoignent (1) de l'échec des services existants à aider les immigrants à faire face aux défis systémiques : trouver des opportunités d'apprentissage significatives, créer des réseaux solides et répondre aux exigences bureaucratiques ; (2) des expériences de rejet, de jugement, de méconnaissance et de dévaluation des immigrants de la part des recruteurs, des employeurs, du personnel des services de l'emploi et des résidents ; et (3) de la résistance à ces défis par les immigrants grâce à la persévérance, à une attitude positive et au soutien de la famille et de la communauté des compatriotes. Ces résultats montrent clairement qu'il ne suffit pas de disposer de services axés sur la recherche individuelle d'un emploi ou sur les compétences professionnelles : les solutions exigent la participation de l'ensemble de la société. Elles soulignent l'urgence d'une action municipale visant à modifier le climat social local et la fourniture de services en intégrant les opinions et l'expérience des immigrants dans la prise de décision concernant les services et l'élaboration des politiques et en formant le personnel des services sociaux et de l'emploi, les employeurs et la communauté à la lutte contre le racisme et à l'expérience des immigrants.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 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".