Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Patterns of Migration and Mobility in Response to International Conflicts and Wars

Asli Ebru Sanlitürk, Athina Anastasiadou, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with Francesco C. Billari (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy), Artem Volgin (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Douglas Leasure (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

We aim to shed light on the patterns and characteristics of migrants forced to flee in response to international conflicts or wars, using digital traces and other sources when data are needed but difficult to obtain. Case studies include migration from Syria, Ukraine, and Russia.  Detailed Description

Publications

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Şanlitürk, A. E.; Zagheni, E.:

Forced migration and information seeking behavior on Wikipedia: insights from the Ukrainian refugee crisis

In: Proceedings of the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-26): Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 27–29, 2026, 2358–2381. Washington, DC: AAAI Press. (2026)    

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Billari, F. C.:

Search for a new home: refugee stock and Google search

International Migration Review 59:1, 61–89. (2025)    

Anastasiadou, A.; Volgin, A.; Leasure, D. R.:

War and mobility: using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine

Demographic Research 50:8, 205–220. (2024)