Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transnational movements involve not only migrating individuals but also the objects that travel with them across borders. The process of migration is thus composed of heterogeneous semiotic-material elements, both human and non-human, shaped by precarious conditions for both people and things. The objects transported or lost during a person's journey function as extensions of their bodies and as companions in their migratory experiences. Drawing on science, technology, and society (STS) studies and feminist action research, and using a methodological approach centered on the relationships between five migrants living in Santiago, Chile, and their objects, this study explores how these objects can serve as valid epistemic co-agents in the production of knowledge about specific social phenomena. It also highlights their role as indispensable companions and agents in the (re)construction of migrant memories and subjectivities. Through three performative acts – discarding an object and writing its obituary, composing a love letter to an object one would never part with, and creating an amulet for future experiences – we move away from the eminently anthropocentric and humanistic approach of social studies to migration and instead show how agency is distributed between humans and non-humans in the process of migration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.016 |
| 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)
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".