Asylum-Seeker Centres in the Netherlands’ Total Institution Characteristics and their Effect on Refugees’ Sense of Belonging
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Abstract
Abstract Based on in-depth qualitative interviews, we investigate how asylum-seekers in the Netherlands have experienced the shelters where they first arrived. We connect this experience to what Goffman calls “total institutions”: just like hospitals and prisons, residents are isolated, restricted, and supervised in the asylum shelters (AZCs). The results show that asylum-seekers feel marginalised, are often treated disrespectfully and with prejudice, and lose their sense of dignity in the overcrowded and isolated housing units. They experience the control element as most disturbing. We also ask about the long-term effect of this experience. Our interviews show that this first experience in the Netherlands causes problems later on in the integration journey. Refugees find it difficult to feel a sense of belonging in the Netherlands. We show how the initial reception in AZCs leads to a lack of belonging later, which can even translate to distrust of Dutch people in general.
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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 | 0.000 | 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)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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