Voices from Foreign Land: A Study of Select Diaspora Narratives of Rohinton Mistry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diaspora is a social formation outside the nation of its origin. Diaspora deals with the uprooting, forced or voluntary, of the mass of people from their native ‘homeland’ and their ‘re-rooting’ in the foreign land. The word ‘diaspora’ comes from the Greek composite verb diasperiein-dia (meaning ‘through or across’) and speirein (meaning to sow/scatter). Diaspora means to scatter through/across, an act of dispersion or scattering. It is an act of gathering and settlement from the homeland to the host land, which is known as the new land. The term diaspora was not in circulation before the 1980s, and there was no evidence of diaspora theory before that decade. Rohinton Mistry is a writer of the Indian diaspora who settled in a foreign land and speaks about his diasporic consciousness of his homeland through his novels set in Canada. The main objective of the research article is to reveal voices from the cross-border using diasporic narratives in the novels of Rohinton Mistry. Keywords: uprooting, re-rooting, homeland, foreign land
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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 | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".