Denise Spitzer. Engendering Migrant Health: Canadian Perspectives
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Abstract
Denise Spitzer. Engendering Migrant Health: Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 320 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.90 hc. $29.95 sc. Engendering Migrant Health is a collection of writings by researchers, practitioners, and community activists that focuses on the complexities that arise due to intersections of immigration, gender and health in Canada. This edited volume is contextualized by the concept of the loss of the healthy immigrant effect. According to the healthy immigrant effect, voluntary migrants to Canada arrive with better health than the average Canadian, but over time they report poorer health and higher rates of chronic disease than those born in the country. Women, particularly those from non-European countries, report the greatest decline in health. The presentations in this book provide evidence of the factors that contribute to this deterioration, and offer examples of how the effects can be mitigated. The book is well organized with an introduction and four sections that begin with an examination of issues of individuals in four communities, followed by discussions of the impacts of immigration and settlement in selected groups, and descriptions of strategies used to mitigate the ill effects of settlement when working with communities. The concluding section is a reflection on the practical issues, theoretical insights, and policy implications ... that emerge from the previous contributions (20). A strength of this book is the varied perspectives presented by the contributors. Parts 1 through 3 contain four chapters each. Part 1, Situating Migration, Gender, and Health in Canada, includes discussions of the difficulties experienced by Francophone refugee women of colour and of the embodiment of stress in immigrant and refugee women. Research by Este and Tachble on Sudanese and Russian fathers focuses on parenting and draws attention to the fact that migrant men can be vulnerable to marginalization and should be considered within the context of migrant health. The work by O'Neill and Sproule highlights the social inclusion issues of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) migrants. The four chapters of Part 2, The Sequelae of Suffering, focus on detrimental aspects of the migration and settlement process. They include an integrative literature review by Hyman on the susceptibility of immigrant and refugee women to mental health issues, a discussion by Thurston of intimate partner violence and implications for policy, Simich's study on consequences of liminality for undocumented female Spanish-speaking workers, and Dossa's narratives of Afghan women in Vancouver. These authors highlight the complex relationships between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and the suffering experienced in the everyday lives of migrants. Part 3, Communities, Social Capital, Empowerment, and Resilience, focuses on strategies to mitigate ill effects of settlement and on ways to establish social capital and empowerment in migrants. …
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.006 |
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".