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Migration and Mobility
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Project
Understanding Patterns of Immigrants’ Integration in Online Spaces
Jisu Kim, Emilio Zagheni, André Grow-Böser; in Collaboration with Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA), Kiran Garimella (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA), Ingmar Weber (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
This project focuses on measuring and understanding the integration patterns of immigrants in online spaces. We curate high-quality digital trace data and leverage methods of statistical and network analysis to assess a new dimension of integration linked to the digital revolution. Detailed Description
Ridgeline plot of fraction of U.S.-based friends after migration for migrants
The y-axis represents number of years spent in the U.S. Here, we observe that as the number of years migrants spent in the U.S. increased, the fraction of friends they had after migration shifted towards the right. This indicates that migrants who had been in the U.S. for longer periods of time had more U.S.- based friends on Twitter. More specifically, we observe a clear shift for migrants starting in the third year since migration. On the other hand, we also observe that the distributions of the fraction of friends before and after migration were identical in the first year since migration and in the seventh year since migration or later. © Kim, J.; Wang Sonne, S. E.; Garimella, K.; Grow, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E. (2023). Online social integration of migrants: evidence from Twitter. Migration Studies, 1–28
Publications
Khatua, A.; Zagheni, E.; Weber, I. G.:
In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM): Limassol, Cyprus, June 5th - 8th, 2023, 1143–1147. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2023)
Kim, J.; Wang Sonne, S. E.; Garimella, K.; Grow, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-012. (2023)
Kim, J.; Wang Sonne, S. E.; Garimella, K.; Grow, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:
Migration Studies, 1–28. (2023)
Chin, A.; Coimbra Vieira, C.; Kim, J.:
In: WebSci '22: proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2022, 296–301. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2022)
Kim, J.; Pratesi, F.; Rossetti, G.; Sîrbu, A.; Giannotti, F.:
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1–23. (2022)
Kim, J.; Sîrbu, A.; Rossetti, G.; Giannotti, F.:
In: Complex networks and their applications X: Volume 1, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021, 130–141. Cham: Springer. (2022)