Female Survivors of African Wars Dealing with the Past
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over-stressed and over-burdened, Somali women in Canada provide for family members while heading their households in new and sometimes unfamiliar cultural and social landscapes. Affected by previous ordeals and the strains of relocation (Danso, 2002), time and again past traumas and settlement experiences intersect, producing new barriers that these women struggle to overcome (Baines, 2007, p. 108; Galabuzi, 2002). As a result, many display classic signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and anxiety (Acosta, 2004; DSMV, 2009). Yet there is an absence of Canadian literature documenting these issues for Somali women in this country. Thus, based on stories, counselling sessions and community meetings, I present this paper as an introduction to their experiences. To better understand these barriers, I examine the impacts of prolonged trauma, the women’s experiences in Canada and on the transference of trauma from mothers to children and adolescents. Finally, I explore the health seeking behaviours, mental wellbeing and socioeconomic status of Somali women within the context of culture and religion.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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.
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".