Independent child migration -- insights into agency, vulnerability, adn structure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
1. Vulnerable Yet Agentic: Independent Child Migrants and Opportunity Structures 1 Aida Orgocka This introductory piece discusses the fluidity of agency and vulnerability as central concepts that describe independent child migration and highlights the role of opportunity structure in qualifying this phenomenon. 2. Tactical Maneuvering and Calculated Risks: Independent Child Migrants and the Complex Terrain of Flight 13 Myriam Denov, Catherine Bryan Using the conceptual framework of social navigation, this chapter highlights young people's strategies, tactical maneuvers, and calculated risks to assure their individual, and often collective, survival and wellbeing in the context of flight and resettlement. 3. Beyond Compartmentalization: A Relational Approach Towards Agency and Vulnerability of Young Migrants 29 Roy Huijsmans Based on fieldwork material from Lao People's Democratic Republic, this chapter introduces the notions of fluid and institutionalized forms of migration as an analytical framework transcending compartmentalized approaches towards migration involving young people. This framework highlights the differing role of networks in becoming a young migrant. 4. When Children Seek Asylum from Their Parents: A Canadian Case Study 47 Michael Bossin, Laila Demirdache Using the case of a Mexican girl who was granted asylum in Canada on the basis of alleged abuse by her mother in Mexico, the authors show how family members may be the source of vulnerabilities for child migrants. Rapid family reunifi cation is not always in the best interests of independent child migrants. 5. Between Empowerment and Powerlessness: Separated Minors in Sweden 65 Kristina Gustafsson, Ingrid Fioretos, Eva Norstrom The conceptual framework of the liberated self is employed to describe how the experiences of young migrants are shaped in the intersection between contexts and conditions of transnational migration and the Swedish reception system. The chapter reveals the paradox that migration serves simultaneously to empower and render children powerless. 6. Vulnerability and Agency: Beyond an Irreconcilable Dichotomy for Social Service Providers Working with Young Refugees in the UK 70 Aoife O'Higgins Recognizing the significant barriers young refugees face in accessing comprehensive support, this chapter argues for a participatory approach that involves young migrants in processes that determine such access. 7. Conclusions, Refl ections, and Prospects for Future Research, Policy, and Programming 93 Christina Clark-Kazak In drawing together some of the key themes from all of the contributions, this chapter highlights the importance of artificiality of categorization processes related to both migration and childhood that independent child migrants encounter, and argues for greater attention to the ways in which categories are constructed in theory and practice. INDEX 99
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".