The Journey of Identity for Coloured South African Immigrants in Aotearoa New Zealand Using an uBuntu Worldview
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Abstract
The purpose of this narrative research study is to understand the lived experiences of individuals classified as coloured South African in the Southern African context who now reside in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research into the lived experiences of coloured South Africans in the country of their birth exists and is a growing area of interest for social sciences researchers focused on identity from ethnographical and phenomenological approaches (Adhikari, 2005; Nilsson, 2016; Groenewald, 2011; Bloom, 1967). Mohamed Adhikari, an academic and researcher at the University of Cape Town, is arguably South Africa’s highest profile researcher of the coloured lived experience. He has conducted more than twenty research studies exploring coloured identity from its origins in the early years of settler rule, to its transformation under apartheid, and most recently, the meaning of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa (Adhikari, 2013). His key findings uncover experiences of marginality, depth of community, in-group racism, racism towards black South Africans and assimilation to whiteness (Adhikari, 2005, 2006, 2013). His more recent research focuses on South Africa’s First Nations people groups, the Khoekhoe and San, who are classified coloured in present-day South Africa. Research into the lived experience of this group in the diaspora is more limited. Christopher Sonn, an academic at the University of Melbourne, who has done extensive research in this space. In his writing, he reflects on his lived experience growing up coloured under apartheid before migrating to Australia. Some key findings of his work explore the complexity of coming to terms with the coloured label being unaccepted outside of Southern Africa, and the psychological process of identity reconstruction that those in the diaspora are faced with (Sonn, 1995, 2009, 2013). Research exploring the lived experiences of the coloured South African community has been conducted in Australia (Sonn, 1995, 2009, 2013) and Canada (Langsdorff, 2018), but no known research has been conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".