Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic. By Alexia Bloch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. 272 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95, paper.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alexia Bloch's Sex, Love, and Migration, an outcome of more than a decade of intense work, is an essential and extensive study of postsocialist women's labor migration to Istanbul.Bloch sets out to disengage transnational migration from the narratives of trafficking and victimization.Instead, she calls for understanding the phenomenon of transnational mobility in the context of economies of desire, growing precarity, shrinking social security, and various, sometimes contradicting, visions of modernity.Building on these gendered stories of mobility in the region, the book complicates liberal narratives of a unidirectional way from "an 'oppressive' state socialism to the 'opportunities' offered by global capitalism" (5).The book is divided into three parts.Part one, Mobilities and Intimacies, starts with a detailed introduction, where Bloch reflects on the origin of the project, her positionality in the primary fieldwork sites (Istanbul, Vulcneti (Moldova), and Moscow), and defines the main analytical concepts.The first chapter lays out a history of shifting ideas about masculinity and femininity in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, as well as in 20 th -century Turkey.Then, going as far back as the 10 th century, Bloch shows a rich history of transnational migration and intimate encounters between the areas of present-day Turkey and the former Soviet Union.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".