Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies

Emanuel Deutschmann is an Assistant Professor of Sociological Theory at Europa-Universität Flensburg, an Associate at the European University Institute’s Migration Policy Centre, and the author of “Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters” (2022).Lucas G. Drouhot is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University (Netherlands). His core research agenda focuses on immigrant incorporation in Western liberal societies. His past work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, and International Migration Review among other outlets.Carolina V. Zuccotti is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Visiting Professor at University Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). She specializes in migration, ethnicity, social inequality, and urban studies. Her work has been published in journals like Sociology, International Migration Review, Population, Space and Place, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.Emilio Zagheni is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He is best known for his pioneering work on using Web and social media data for studying migration processes and for his role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography.

• Introduction – Computational approaches to migration and integration research: promises and challenges 1. Predictive modeling of movements of refugees and internally displaced people: towards a computational framework 2. Migration networks and the intensity of global migration flows, 1990-2015 3. How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context 4. Analyzing community reaction to refugees through text analysis of social media data 5. Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014-2017 6. Exploring the dynamics of neighborhood ethnic segregation with agent-based modelling: an empirical application to Bradford, UK 7. Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections.