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Record W4410319656 · doi:10.1093/migration/mnaf014

<i>Governing the displaced: Race and ambivalence in global capitalism</i> Dr Ali Bhagat

2025· article· en· W4410319656 on OpenAlexaff
Marc Calabretta

Bibliographic record

VenueMigration Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicElite Sociology and Global Capitalism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmbivalenceCapitalismRace (biology)Political sciencePolitical economyArms raceSociologyGender studiesSocial psychologyLawPsychologyPolitics

Abstract

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Governing the Displaced examines themes of fantasy, disposability, and survival that manifest themselves in transnational refugee governance. Through dual case studies in Paris and Nairobi, Bhagat shifts scholarly focus away from the refugee camp and towards cities to reveal the multiple spaces in which the everyday struggle for refugee survival occurs. He situates two seemingly disparate cities within a multiscalar analysis to illuminate how refugee survival cannot be separated from the national and transnational contexts in which neoliberal approaches to refugee governance are embedded. Bhagat posits that the logic of neoliberal capitalism produces an ambivalence towards refugees, whereby states are caught between countervailing desires for labour and austerity. States recognize the economic potential of refugees as productive labour, although welfare retrenchment and inadequate social policies place refugees in a daily struggle for survival amidst urban unaffordability, inadequate social housing, labour insecurity, and widespread xenophobia. Through in-depth interviews with refugees, NGOs, and state officials between 2017 and 2018, Bhagat reveals the disciplinary nature of refugee governance policies and how these exclude refugees from shelter, work, and political belonging.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0050.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.370
Teacher spread0.349 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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