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Data science for migration and mobility / edited by Albert A. Salah, Emre E. Korkmaz, and Tuba Bircan.

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Book
Contributor:
Salah, Albert Ali, editor.
Korkmaz, Emre Eren, editor.
Bircan, Tuba, editor.
Series:
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 251.
British Academy scholarship online.
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 251
British Academy scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Emigration and immigration--Research--Methodology.
Emigration and immigration.
Social mobility--Research--Methodology.
Social mobility.
Data mining.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxiv, 428 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, [2023]
Summary:
'Data Science for Migration and Mobility' provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the usage of new data sources in migration and mobility research, including mobile phone records, social media content, satellite images, event and financial databases.
Contents:
Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of Figures
Colour Plates
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1 New Data Sources and Computational Approaches to Migration and Human Mobility
Introduction
Conceptual groundwork
Migration and mobility
The data perspective
Approaches to empirical modelling
Why new data sources for migration?
Limitations of traditional data sources
Challenges for new data sources
Big data and migration research in practice
Data sharing practices
Stakeholders and collaborators
Researchers
Data collectors and providers
Policyand decision-makers
Migrants
Found data and private data
A case study on risks: Digital identity, big data, and the power of corporations
The identification problem
Stakeholders and suppliers
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
2 Ethical and Legal Concerns on Data Science for Large-Scale Human Mobility
Applying ethics and ethics principles
What is applied ethics?
Ethics in data science
Ethics principles
Ethical issues in data science for migration and mobility
Consent
De-identification, anonymisation, and re-identification
Black box, transparency, and explainability
Algorithmic bias
Dual use of technologies
Complexity and risk assessment
Data ethics tools
Legal risks for data science in migration and mobility
Data collection, processing, and sharing
Algorithm development
Deployment and policy
Data ethics and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration
Conclusion
Document repositories and further reading
Part II: Data Sources.
3 CESSDA Data Catalogue: Opportunities and Challenges to Explore Mobility and Migration
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
Catalogues as a vehicle of collaborative research: Migration studies use cases
The Data Catalogue explained
Catalogue development
Catalogues and multilinguality
Searching the catalogue: The case of migration datasets
FAIR in practice
Use cases on migration
The HumMingBird Project
International Survey Data Network
Challenges and prospects for collaborative research
4 Leveraging Mobile Phone Data for Migration Flows
Mobile phone data: Call detail records
Application of mobile phone data for migration
Refugees
Climate-based migration
Labour migration
Other uses of mobile phone data
Mobile phone data for migration: Challenges and limitations
Technical challenges
Geographic and temporal resolution
Representativeness of the data
Data integration
Timeliness of the data
Ethical, regulatory, and financial challenges
Ethical challenges
Privacy and regulatory challenges
Difficulty of access and lack of financially sustainable models
5 Analysing Refugees' Secondary Mobility Using Mobile Phone Call Detail Records
Mobile phone data and mobility analysis
Background: Syrian refugees in Turkey, and the Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge
Research and data ethics: Protection of research participants
Data preparation and analysis, and ethical reflections
A short 'portrait' of the data, and data preparation
Data preparation
Ethics: Bias and representation
CDR analysis: Some key insights
Ethics: Voluntariness and informed consent
CDR analysis: Spatial patterns
Ethics: Do no harm
CDR analysis: Temporal patterns.
Conclusion
Further reading
6 Remote Sensing Data for Migration Research
An overview of remote sensing
Remote sensing sensors
Remote sensing satellite systems
Commercial remote sensing satellites
LANDSAT programme
Defence Meteorological Satellite Programme
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
Copernicus programme
The remote sensing process and data products
Land cover and land use
Night-time lights
Satellite data utilisation for studying climate-induced migration
Case study 1: Impact of ethnic migration on a protected area landscape in western Uganda
Case study 2: Non-linearities and thresholds for the relationship between climate shocks and rural-urban migration in Mexico
Case study 3: Dynamics of armed conflict, forced migration, and urbanisation in Colombia
Satellite data applications for migration and humanitarian aid
Discussion: Opportunities and limitations
7 Using Facebook and LinkedIn Data to Study International Mobility
Introduction to advertising data
Facebook examples
LinkedIn examples
General limitations/challenges
Self-selection bias
Self-reporting bias
Brittleness of the APIs
Privacy concerns
Ethical and legal concerns
Summary
The next frontier: Combining data and fully leveraging the infrastructure of the digital age
8 Twitter Data for Migration Studies
Migration case studies
Acquiring data
Downloading: API and libraries
Data format
Tweet object
Terms of service
User terms of service
Developer terms of service and links to privacy and ethics in migration research
Changes in the terms of service
Processing Twitter data.
Natural language processing
Geolocation pipeline
Gaps and biases
Discussion and conclusions
9 Indicators and Survey Data to Understand Migration and Integration Policy Frameworks and Trends in the EU
Output: Migration policy indicators
Data accessibility
Solano
Topics and groups covered
Topics
Groups
Geographical and temporal coverage
An example index: The Migrant Integration Policy Index
Outcomes: Migration and integration trends
Data quality, gaps, and limitations
The link between policies and migration trends and integration outcomes
Recommended reading
10 Financial Datasets: Leveraging Transactional Big Data in Mobility and Migration Studies
Literature review
Datasets
Case study
Discussion and conclusion
Part III: Visualisation
11 Visual Exploration of Large Multidimensional Trajectory Data
Background
Problem domain
Data model
Preliminaries
Paths vs trails
Modelling time
Visualisation techniques
Aggregating methods
Density maps
Bundling methods
Techniques for time-dependent data
Other visual encodings
Creating visualisations
Data collection and curing
Attributes
Normalisation
Values
Data simplification and filtering
Size reduction
Attribute reduction
Designing the visual exploration
Overview, zoom and filter, then details on demand
Visual analytics loop
Putting it all together
Scalability
Interpretability
Quality
Replicability
References.
12 Voyage Viewer: A Multivariate Visualisation Tool for Migration Analysis
Related work
Visualisations for migration
Design rationale
Inputs and resources
Traditional data
Alternative data sources
Infrastructure and system description
Activities and outputs
Interactive visualisations
People Like Me
Outcomes
Use cases
Citizen use case
Policy actors
Limitations
Conclusions and future work
Part IV: Case Studies and Applications
13 Combining Mobile Call Data and Satellite Imaging for Human Mobility
Data and measurement
Measuring mobility
Measuring the characteristics of origin and destination locations
Empirical strategy
Results
14 Using Machine Learning and Synthetic Populations to Predict Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in European Regions
Relocation and resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe
Data-driven migration planning
Method
Predicting individual acceptance
Predicting social acceptance
15 Issues about Analysing Multilingual Communication in Immigrant Contexts
Clarification of terminology about language use in immigrant contexts
Analysing language use in immigrant contexts through spoken data
Analysing language use in online environments for immigrant communities
Qualitative methods of analysis
Computational methods of analysis
16 Applying Computational Linguistic and Text Analysis to Media Content about Migration
Orienting: Approaches and limitations
Collecting: Media data and the politics of their origins.
Analysing: Linking textual patterns and mental schemas.
Notes:
This edition previously issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2023).
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-80596-087-3
1-80596-054-7
0-19-199173-2
OCLC:
1389528287

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