252 “It’s not really in our job description, but our humanity will haunt us if we don’t do it” : (psycho)social and community workers supporting transnational refugee families undergoing family reunification process
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Abstract
Abstract OP 17: Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1, B210 (FCSH), September 4, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30 Aims The growing number of forcibly displaced individuals, coupled with the tightening of migration policies restricting humanitarian and family migration in Global North countries, prolongs family separations and imposes additional barriers to reunification. This presentation highlights the results of a doctoral research that aimed at studying the experiences of separation and reunification of transnational refugee families to Quebec (Canada) in order to identify how (psycho)social and community intervention can help improve these experiences. Methods/approach Employing a feminist family storytelling methodology, this research juxtaposes the lived experiences of 15 transnational refugee family members undergoing family reunification, with the experiences of 16 (psycho)social and community workers supporting them at various?stages of the reunification process. It develops a critical transnational analytical framework composed of four main dimensions?of transnational refugee families’ experiences of separation and reunification: 1) intimacy and everyday life; 2) bureaucracy; 3) structural issues; 4) (psycho)social and community intervention. Results The findings reveal a comprehensive range of (psycho)social and community interventions employed throughout various stages of the family reunification process. Moreover, the analysis indicates that the intervention space serves dual functions: firstly, a locus that mirrors the inherent complexity and rigidity of the reunification process; secondly, a strategic tool utilized by both families and practitioners to navigate and counteract bureaucratic and systemic challenges that impede refugees’ rights to family life. Conclusions Individual-level interventions within the national borders of country of family reunification are critical for supporting transnational refugee families. However, the complexity of the bureaucratic, structural, and intimate and everyday challenges they face makes individual-level interventions insufficient. Improved organisational conditions are required for practitioners to carry out family level interventions involving family members within and beyond national borders.?They are also essential to sustain effective advocacy initiatives for the protection of transnational refugee families’ right to family life.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".