Part 1 - Introduction
1: ALBERT ALI SALA, TUBA BIRCAN, EMRE EREN KORKMAZ: New data
sources and computational approaches on migration and human
mobility
2: ALBERT ALI SALAH, CANSU CANCA, BARI,S ERMAN
: Ethical and legal concerns on data science for large scale human
mobility
Part 2 - Data Sources
3: DIMITRA KONDYLI, RON DEKKER, IVANA ILIJASIC VERSIC: CESSDA Data
Catalogue: opportunities and challenges to explore mobility and
migration
4: MASSIMILIANO LUCA, GIANNI BARLACCHI, NURIA OLIVER, BRUNO LEPRI:
Leveraging mobile phone data for migration flows
5: HARALD STERLY, LARS WIRKUS: Analysing refugees' secondary
mobility using mobile phone Call Detail Records (CDR)
6: TUBA BIRCAN: Remote sensing data for migration research
7: CAROLINA COIMBRA VIERA, MASOOMALI FATEHKIA, KIRAN GARIMELLA,
INGMAR WEBER, EMILIO ZAGHENI: Using Facebook and LinkedIn data to
study international mobility
8: JISU KIM, LAURA POLLACCI, GIULIO ROSSETTI, ALINA SÎRBU, FOSCA
GIANNOTTI, DINO PEDRESCHI: Twitter data for migration studies
9: GIACOMO SOLANO: Indicators and survey data to understand
migration and integration policy frameworks and trends in the
EU
10: MERT GÜRKAN, BURÇIN BOZKAYA, SELIM BALC)iSOY
: Financial datasets: Leveraging transactional big data in mobility
and migration studies
Part 3 - Visualisation
11: ALEXANDRU TELEA, MICHAEL BEHRISCH: Visual exploration of large
multidimensional trajectory data
12: ISABELLA LOAIZA, GERMÁN SÁNCHEZ, SERENA CHAN, FELIPE MONTES,
JIMÉNEZ, MOHSEN BAHRAMI, ALEX PENTLAND
: Voyage Viewer: a multivariate visualisation tool for migration
analysis
Part 4 - Case Studies and Applications
13: TU&GBA BOZCAGA, ASLI CANSUNAR: Combining mobile call data
and satellite imaging for human mobility
14: CARLOS ARCILA-CALDERÓN, JAVIER J. AMORES, MIKOLAJ STANEK:
Predicting support for refugees in Europe: using machine learning
and synthetic populations to predict support for acceptance of
asylum seekers in European regions
15: A. SEZA DO&GRUÖZ: Issues about analysing multilingual
communication in immigrant contexts
16: WILLIAM L. ALLEN: Applying computational linguistic and text
analysis to media content about migration: opportunities and
challenges for social scientific domains
17: AMANDA ALENCAR, MARIE GODIN: Exploring digital connectivities
in forced migration contexts: digital 'making do' practises
18: H. AKIN UNVER, AHMET KURNAZ
: Conflict and forced migration: Social media as event data
Part 5 - A Final Word
19: EMRE EREN KORKMAZ
: Eight theses on migration studies and big data
Glossary
References
Index
Albert Ali Salah is Professor of Affective and Social Computing at
Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing
Sciences, and Adjunct Professor at Bo?aziçi University, Department
of Computer Engineering. He has held research positions at Centrum
Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), University of Amsterdam, and Nagoya
University before. His work focuses on computer analysis of human
behaviour. He was the scientific coordinator of the Data for
Refugees Challenge, and leads a work package in the HumMingBird EU
project. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM, and a research
affiliate of Datapop Alliance.
Emre Eren Korkmaz is a Departmental Lecturer in Migration and
Development at the University of Oxford's Department of
International Development, where he teaches on the MSc in Migration
Studies. From October 2016 to September 2018, he was a British
Academy Newton International Fellow at ODID. He was also a junior
research fellow at St Edmund Hall (2017-20) and a Research
Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs of the
Department of Politics and International Relations
(2018-20). In recent years, he has been driven by a passion for
examining the social and political impact of new digital and
frontier technologies on migration.
Tuba Bircan is an assistant professor at the Department of
Sociology and the research coordinator of Interface Demography at
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She currently the scientific
coordinator of the Enhanced Migration Measures from a
Multidimensional Perspective (HumMingBird), funded by European
Commission Horizon 2020. Her major research interests are
migration, gender, equal opportunities, evidence-based
policymaking, quantitative and mixed methods, Big Data and AI
applications for
social research. She has served as an external expert and reviewer
for several international funding institutes and as a reviewer for
many international journals.
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