Present past: resilience and remembering in the individual and collective memories of elderly poles who survived the gulags as children
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Abstract
Following immigration and trauma experiences, memory, adjustment, and personal transformation prove to be complex processes across the lifespan. The overall aim of this thesis is to examine how elderly Polish individuals who experienced childhood trauma reflect on their lives and remember both their life experiences and their migration trajectories. During WWII, after having been exiled from their homes at the onset of war to Soviet labour camps (gulags), Polish children and youth spent several years in international refugee camps beginning in 1942 before settling, often very successfully, in Canada or New Zealand. The first study focuses on the individual and collective memories of those who were in African refugee camps (the "Africans", or "Afrykanczycy"), through the content analysis of individual interviews (N=10) and collective reunion materials, respectively. Individual memories reveal a diversity of lived experiences in the camps, while the collective memories emphasize timeless friendships in an idealized past. The second study looks to the publicly available testimonials (N=51) of those who were New Zealand's first refugees. Evidence of posttraumatic growth presents itself as changes in relationships and changes in self, in the context of a welcoming and supportive society. Taken together, these studies of a common trauma and migration experience, as expressed through various lenses, provide representations of subjective experiences and recollections in late life, which is helpful for understanding the resiliency process. They inform our understanding of memory processes following migration and trauma, the use of qualitative life trajectory research as a tool for longitudinal studies, and what may help or hinder well-being across the lifespan.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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".