Of "Passport Babies " and "Border Control": The Case of Mavis Baker v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The case of Mavis Baker v. (Canada) Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and the print news media discourse surrounding the case are examined in this article to uncover how the notion of border control, rooted in Canada's national story, shapes current state discourses and practices. RESUME Le cas de Mavis Baker VS (Canada) Ministre de la citoyennete et de l'lmmigration, et les discours des medias de presses au sujet du cas sont etudies dans cet article pour decouvrir comment la notion du controle des frontieres, ancree dans 1'histoire nationale, definie l'etat courant du discours et des politiques. Borders are both physical and existential. They define terrestrial as well as ideological ground. In other words, the construction of the borders and boundaries of the nation-state effects people's legal-political "rights " as well as the formation of people's consciousness of themselves and, importantly, of others. (Sharma 2000, 2)
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".