Big data for official migration statistics: Evidence from 29 national statistical institutions

AW Ahmad Yar, T Bircan - Big Data & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
International migration statistics suffer from extensive gaps and shortcomings. Recently,
national statistical institutions (NSIs) have started using big data to complement traditional …

Emerging big data sources for studying migration

T Bircan, AA Salah - Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Over the last decades, global migration has been a major issue, along with the diffusion of
technological applications that has allowed the collection and linking of vast amounts of …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated geospatial methods for multilingual cities: Combining GPS, electronically activated recorder, and map-based ethnographic interviews

B O'Rourke, Q Zhao, A Dayán-Fernández… - Research Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multilingual speakers' linguistic practices are typically investigated via self-report measures,
often relying on subjective memory recall. This article examines the potential of an …

[PDF][PDF] Can big data deliver its promises in migration research?

AA Salah - International Migration, 2022 - researchgate.net
As a computer scientist working on algorithms and applications for human behaviour
analysis since the 90s, I was able to witness the rise of" big data," which was jokingly …

Dataset of Multi-Aspect Integrated Migration Indicators

D Goglia, L Pollacci, A Sîrbu - Data, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, new branches of research are proposing the use of non-traditional data sources
for the study of migration trends in order to find an original methodology to answer open …

Augmentation or replication? Assessing big data's role in migration studies

T Bircan - Data & Policy, 2024 - cambridge.org
As the field of migration studies evolves in the digital age, big data analytics emerge as a
potential game-changer, promising unprecedented granularity, timeliness, and dynamism in …

[PDF][PDF] Ethical Benchmarking in Irregular Migration Research

N Cyrus - 2023 - researchgate.net
This working paper deals with the ethical dimension of measuring irregular migration. It aims
to support the upcoming development of handbooks as main outputs of the MIrreM …