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Using Twitter to Track Immigration Sentiment During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Francisco Rowe [@fcorowe]¹, Michael Mahony¹, Eduardo Graells-Garrido [@carnby]², Marzia Rango [@MarziaRango]³, Niklas Sievers [@niklas_sievers ]³

¹ Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

² Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

³ Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), International Organization for Migration, Berlin, Germany

Description

This repository contains the relevant data and code to replicate the analysis and results reported in the paper "Using Twitter to Track Immigration Sentiment During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic", submitted to Data & Policy.

Paper aim

This paper aims to measure and monitor changes in attitudes towards immigrants during early stages of the current COVID-19 outbreak in five countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States using Twitter data and natural language processing. Specifically, we seek to:

• determine the extent of intensification in anti-immigration sentiment as the geographical spread and fatality rate of COVID-19 increases;
• identify key discrimination topics associated with anti-immigration sentiment;
• assess how these topics and immigration sentiment change over time and vary by country.

Citation

If you use the code and/or data in this repository, we would appreciate if you could cite the pre-print paper as:

@article{rowe_et_al2021dp,
  title={Using Twitter to Track Immigration Sentiment During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic},
  author={Rowe, Francisco and 
          Mahony, Michael and 
          Graells-Garrido, Eduardo and
          Rango, Marzia and
          Sievers, Niklas},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:xxx},
  DOI={xxx}
  year={2021},
}

The repository is also registered on the Open Science Framework

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