Laboratory
Migration and Mobility
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Project
Analyzing Social Media Discourse and Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Attitudes Toward Migrants
Emilio Zagheni, Asli Ebru Sanlitürk, Abigail Tun Mendicuti, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Jisu Kim; 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), Sudhamshu Hosamane (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA), Kyle Wang (University of Delaware, USA), Clara H. Mulder (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Kyoung-In Baik (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, South), Jiho Kwak (Seoul National University, Korea, South)
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
Data and Surveys, Migration
Germany, Mexico, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, World
Publications
Baik, K.; Kim, J.:
SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)
Baik, K.; Kim, J.:
In: Advances in social networks analysis and mining: proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - ASONAM 2025, 315–331. Cham: Springer. (2025)
Tun Mendicuti, A.; Kim, J.; Mulder, C. H.:
In: WEBSCI '24: proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, 22-24 May 2024, 1–10. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2024)
Marquez, N.; Garimella, K.; Toomet, O.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-021. (2019)
Marquez, N.; Garimella, K.; Toomet, O.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:
In: Guide to mobile data analytics in refugee scenarios, 265–282. Cham: Springer. (2019)