Re-conceptualising refugees as relative surplus populations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The topic of study in this thesis is the relationship between refugees and the Canadian political economy. The central argument of this thesis is that both the production of refugees around the world and their reception in Canada are best understood as core processes of contemporary global capitalism/imperialism. Borrowing from and employing a critical Marxist political economy orientation, the phenomenon of refugees as relative surplus populations within a global capitalist system is critically examined. Relevant research on migration and refugees provides a general but clear picture of recent scholarly research on international migration and refugee phenomenon. Alternative approaches and disciplines are compared and a suitable context within which this research may be placed is established. Key notions in both Malthusian and Marxist theory are developed. Theoretical conceptions are operationalized to the literature reviewed, allowing for the situating and discussion of relevant key concepts. A case application of the theoretical framework and arguments developed above is made focusing on the Canadian political economy generally, and in terms of its refugee protection system specifically. A summary review of the path taken is presented, highlighting major points, assumptions and findings made, concluding with suggestions for what actions need be taken to ameliorate the situation.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".