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Which country has the largest number of migrants in America? What are the return rates? What are the latest demographics? Here are a few statistics about it.
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Statistics on Asian migration, including migration from Asia to Europe, embed regional migration trends into the context of global migration dynamics.
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Media coverage and political discourses in Europe often highlight stories of migration from Africa to Europe, thus feeding the narrative of Africa as a continent of emigration. Can statistics shed a new light on this narrative?
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Social media platforms provide an opportunity to study the online behaviours of large numbers of people. However, the use of these data sources also includes various legal and ethical concerns that must be considered.
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In this article, we outline some key findings of the work that was conducted in the context of Work Package 2
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‘Fake news’, distributed through online media (portal) and social media networks represented or shaped in the form of short pieces (detached from the full material) is a common way of disinformation that prevails in the communities of…
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Radicalisation and polarisation are complex phenomena that thrive not only in the real but also in the virtual world, having huge impact on potentially vulnerable individuals and groups, including migrants.
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False narratives among migrants may end up to misleading information on the actual reality that they may face in the host countries, thus creating additional problems and threats which can be addressed via certain practices, tools, and…
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Is migration perceived as a security challenge, or even a threat, to destination countries? The PERCEPTIONS Project has analysed 138 documents in order to reveal the ways in which destination countries link migration to problems or…
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Researchers engaged in PERCEPTIONS Project have carried out an in-depth analysis of articles, reports and documents in order to better understand the threats encountered by migrants in transit countries.
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