Migration, Language, Identity: The Journey of Meixian Hakkas from Calcutta to Vienna
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Hakkas who migrated from Meizhou to Calcutta established successful businesses, and, betweem the 1970s and the 1990s, moved on to settle in Vienna (and Toronto). Practicing a closed-group life both in Vienna and across continents, the Hakkas preserved their language and culture while adapting both to India and Austria in various ways. In a series of ethnographic meetings with Vienna-based Hakkas, questions of identity and the preservation of a minority culture are raised. In dependence to age, the consultants have very different personal identities embedded behind a shared social identity of being ‘Indian Hakkas.’This shared social identity is, however, mostly borne out of practical considerations of mutual support and certain cultural practices. As migrants, they are able to profit from close friendship and loyalty between and among group members, sharing the same professions, marrying inside the group, and more so, speaking their own language. Questions of identity are mostly relevant for the younger generation, which must contend with a confusingly layered familial identity.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".