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Record W4417400309 · doi:10.1163/09763457-bja10198

Re-Imagining Home in Transnational Narratives

2025· article· W4417400309 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDiaspora Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiaspora, migration, transnational identity
Canadian institutionsKeyano College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiasporaEmbodied cognitionScholarshipNarrativeEveryday lifeNegotiationRelation (database)Politics

Abstract

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Abstract This article analyses Firoozeh Dumas’s memoirs, Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent , to examine how Iranian-American homemaking is constructed as a dynamic, embodied and sensory process in diaspora life writing. Drawing on recent scholarship in diaspora studies, the sociology of home and life writing, the article introduces and develops the concept of ‘multisensory homing’ as an innovative interdisciplinary framework. This approach theorises diasporic belonging as materially constituted through everyday embodied practices—tasting, smelling, laughing—that go beyond symbolic or nostalgic models of home and extend existing spatial and temporal paradigms by centring humour and affective materiality. The discussion situates Dumas’s work in relation to classic and recent diaspora theory as well as Iranian-American humour and life writing, highlighting its distinctive intervention: a sensorially grounded focus on everyday resilience and cultural negotiation as an alternative to trauma-centric or political accounts, offering new insight into the relational practice of homemaking for migrants and minorities across contemporary transnational contexts.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.370
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.375
Teacher spread0.325 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it