Bibliographic record
Abstract
The thesis seeks to explore the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee minors when seeking refugee protection. It will examine the way in which discourses and policies, both in Canada and internationally, undermine unaccompanied refugee minors accessing refugee protection or being successful in their claim. Relying mainly on post-colonial theory, the thesis will address the historical context that created the phenomenon of forced migration of children, and the role the Global North plays in perpetuating it. Further, the thesis questions and problematizes knowledge that it is taken for granted. It relies mainly on postcolonial theories and Foucault's concept of power to understand how human subjects, especially those from the Global South, have been constructed. It also examines how this population of children became constructed as "problems" and the role of discourses in assuming the nature of these problems. The thesis also provides an in depth analysis of policy concerning unaccompanied refugee minors. Three international protection instruments will be focused on: the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugee and UNHCR 1997 Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in Dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum, and two Canadian protection instruments, the Child Refugee Claimants Procedural And Evidentiary Issues and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. This thesis aims to shift and alter popular beliefs and perceptions about the issue of unaccompanied refugee minors in the hope of bringing about cultural-philosophical shift in attitudes.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".