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Record W6893550075 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.16600189

அ.மததலஙகம சறகதகளல அயலக வழகக நல / The Condition of Expatriate Life in A. Muthulingam's Short Stories

2025· article· en· W6893550075 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiaspora, migration, transnational identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExpatriateNarrativeEthnographyNegotiationDiasporaTamilEthnic groupValue (mathematics)

Abstract

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This article explores the portrayal of diasporic existence in A. Muthulingam’s short stories. It examines his literary representations of socio-cultural realities across eleven countries where he resided and worked that includes the United States, Afghanistan, Canada, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, France, Somalia, Kenya (Nairobi), Sweden, and Puerto Rico. The study investigates how Muthulingam’s fiction that captures the complex interplay between cultural preservation and adaptation in foreign environments. The analysis focuses on Muthulingam’s depictions of daily life abroad by his attention to cultural practices, dietary customs, ethnic and linguistic differences, and varying levels of civilizational development. His stories reveal the psychological and social challenges faced by migrant communities as they find their way in unfamiliar value systems while striving to maintain their cultural heritage. The narratives serve as valuable ethnographic accounts that document both the opportunities and struggles inherent in transnational mobility, from economic advancement to experiences of racial discrimination and cultural alienation. Through his literary portrayals, Muthulingam emerges as a storyteller of the Tamil transnational experience by offering insights into the preservation of cultural memory and the formation of hybrid identities in diaspora communities. His works contribute significantly to broader discourses on migration literature by showing the complex terrain of postcolonial labour movements and the enduring connections between migrants and their homelands. Hence, the article studies the stories that show how individuals and communities negotiate their identities across geographical and cultural boundaries in the short stories of Muthulingam.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0230.010
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.276 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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