Displacement and Resilience: Scottish Highland Communities in Nova Scotia, 1810–1850
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article is a historical intervention in understanding the roots of socio-economic exclusion by interrogating the links between people’s displacement from three of Scotland’s Western Isles – Barra, Eigg, and South Uist – and their (re)settlement in the ‘wilderness lands’ of Cape Breton Island or Unama’ki, as it is known by the Mi’kmaq. Exploring patterns of economic deprivation and social dislocation illuminates some of British imperialism’s more obscure threads such as the complex legacies of migration and colonisation. Scottish Highland out-migration and settlement occurred within two distinct but entangled contexts – a colonised people at home and a colonising people abroad. For those who engaged willingly and early, the material benefits could be significant and included access to land, fish, furs, and timber. In places like the Maritime colonies of northeastern British North America, it also offered cultural respite and the prospect of religious tolerance. For those who had not engaged as willingly or willingly at all, however, the benefits and long-term prospects were much more limited. Recognising the complexities and diversity inherent within the migrant and settler experiences illuminates some of the hidden factors that shaped the prospects of generations of people in this Atlantic region.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".