Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Studying the Interplay Between Social Media Discourse and Refugee Segregation

Emilio Zagheni, Asli Ebru Sanlitürk; in Collaboration with Neal Marquez (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Toomet Ott Siim (University of Tartu, Estonia), Weber Ingmar (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany), Garimella Kiran (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA)

We study temporal and geographic changes in attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey and other migrants by host country population. We combine geographic information from anonymized cellphone call records with sentiment analysis based on data from the microblogging platform Twitter.  Detailed Description

Publications

Marquez, N.; Garimella, K.; Toomet, O.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Segregation and sentiment: estimating refugee segregation and its effects using digital trace data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-021. (2019)