“Home Away From Home”: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Displaced Ukrainian Women’s Experiences With Their Canadian Hosts
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Abstract
Displaced by the Russian invasion, Ukrainian women face complex challenges in adapting to new environments. This study explores their experiences living in homestay arrangements in Canada, drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis to examine how they express displacement, adaptation, and integration. Eighteen women participated through photo-elicitation interviews, metaphor-building activities using AI-generated images, and focus group discussions. The participants created metaphors to represent their hosting experiences, which were analyzed using Charteris-Black's framework for Critical Metaphor Analysis alongside thematic narrative analysis. Metaphors such as "The Cardboard House," "Ferris Wheel of Photos," and "Warm Safe House" captured their resilience, vulnerability, and evolving sense of belonging. These metaphors informed three central themes: the search for stability, safety, and peace; the process of adaptation and expressions of gratitude; and the emotional dislocation tied to homeland connections. The findings highlight the emotional complexity of homestay experiences and the need for culturally sensitive, structured hosting models. For nursing, this underscores the value of trauma- and culturally-informed care to support displaced women's psychosocial well-being.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".