The experience of transient Qallunaat workers in education health and social services in Nunavik
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Abstract
The Nunavik labour market is largely structured around transient workers from southern Quebec, a dynamic resulting from the legacy of colonialism in the Canadian Arctic. Despite the challenges this presence poses for the organization of the labour market and the relationships between Inuit and Qallunaat (non-Inuit), an understanding of these work experiences remains limited. This report presents the results of a master’s research project aimed at gaining a better understanding of the experience of Qallunaat employed in care sectors (education, health and social services) in Nunavik. The results are based on interviews with 21 former Qallunaat workers and reveal that their experiences are characterized by: 1) a temporary opportunity, both personally and professionally, 2) gaps between initial aspirations and the realities encountered, 3) a tension between challenges and benefi ts, 4) colonial dynamics that place them in a position of authority over Inuit, and 5) a feeling of being essential to the Nunavik labour market. The report concludes with 14 recommendations to address the issues raised by these fi ndings. This project offers new insights into the temporary roles of Qallunaat workers and their relationships with Inuit in Nunavik’s care institutions, emphasizing how colonial dynamics benefi t Qallunaat workers while excluding Inuit from employment opportunities in their own homeland. The report outlines potential actions to enhance the revitalization of relationships between Inuit and Qallunaat in care institutions.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".