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Migrants in the Movies 

2018· book-chapter· en· W7132192698 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueMiCISAN · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismIndigenousGenocideNationalismState (computer science)ImmigrationNarrativeResistance (ecology)
DOInot available

Abstract

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My documentaries, I hope, present counter narratives to the dominant imaginative fantasies of Canadian nationalism that refuse to see the colonial histories being played out in the contemporary migrant worker programs. Migrant labor programs are not new concepts. They are engineering the racial make-up of Canada’s citizenry as they always have. The contemporary versions in practice today are extensions of historic labor schemes developed by the Canadian state to designate the “preferred citizen” according to class and race. Canada’s colonial history institutionalized the wholesale genocide of the indigenous peoples of the land. The erasure of the First Nations’ histories and cultures from Canada’s history has been actively resisted by Indigenous communities today, a resistance that challenges the whitewashing of Canada’s roots. It is imperative to remember how deeply entrenched labor and immigration programs were and continue to be in fostering the imaginative fantasy of Canada as white. Canada’s national railways were built in the 1800s by Chinese railroad workers who paid exorbitant fees in the form of head taxes to work in the dangerous sites, laying the train tracks that would eventually literally make national unity feasible.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.688
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it