A force in foreign affairs? Tamil diaspora interest group lobbying in Canada and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Foreign policy observers have deliberated for decades on the influence of diasporas on host country foreign policy, and by extension on civil wars abroad. The 26-year civil war in Sri Lanka led to an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils, which have since formed large diasporas in Canada and the United Kingdom. Through the formation of sophisticated interest groups, the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in both countries have undertaken to influence foreign policy toward the civil war and its aftermath. While the scholarship has discussed diaspora influence on foreign policy in great detail in the United States and elsewhere, identifying a number of factors believed to impact diaspora influence, the literature has spent less time considering this question in parliamentary democracies. Through a most-similar, cross case comparative approach I delve into two foreign policy decision-making processes in Canada and the United Kingdom to determine if and when Tamil diaspora interest groups influenced Canadian and British foreign policy. I argue that in all four temporal and spatial cases explored, Tamil diaspora interest groups had influence over decision-making, but that they had more influence in the UK despite facing greater domestic and international constraints.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".