Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The contact point between the family and the state is a key site in the production of youth legal precarity. The family has become an essential component of youth migration projects in light of the violence and precarities that cut through global migration politics and policy. As family and kin navigate a securitized global migration system that criminalizes movement, they are engaging, contending, interpreting and navigating state power. Conceptualizing the family as a dynamic set of practices, rather than a unified object, we examine how the ‘contact point’ between the state, family and kin assembles youth’s precarious non/citizenship. We present data from retrospective, in-depth interviews with five young women who settled in Toronto as teenagers and lived for extended periods of time without authorized immigration status and largely under the radar of the state. Drawing on the non/citizenship assemblages framework, and the concept of the ‘work of legal status’, we demonstrate the importance of kinning, re-kinning and de-kinning processes as a mediator of youth’s legal status precarity.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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".