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The Frustration within Migration Situations (FMS) Codebook (version 0.5) focuses on identifying host communities’ frustrations in the migration phenomenon in Colombia and Greece towards different actors and sectors. Frustration categories include locals’ frustration towards government, migrants, geopolitics, infrastructure, other locals, and the situation in general. These categories were the most salient during the coding process. Colombia and Greece were chosen as case studies due to the similarities and differences in their migration patterns and similar timing of events. Both countries have experienced significant and rapid influxes of migrants, starting around 2010 and intensifying in 2015. Greece has primarily received migrants fleeing violent conflicts from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, transiting through Turkey (Spindler, 2015). Meanwhile, Colombia has predominantly witnessed economic migration from Venezuela (World Bank, 2021). We are interested in understanding the fast evolution of these situations over the years 2015 to 2020 and how frustration may have hindered the absorption of the migrant population by the host population. The design of the FMS Codebook and content analysis method followed a team-based approach (Saldaña, 2021), enabling quantification and replication of the analysis across coders and settings. Researchers agreed on selecting codes, subcodes, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and exemplar cases. This development phase drew upon the analysis of events reported in two newspapers, one for each country. Search keywords included terms like "migrant," "refugee," and region/language-specific terminology for migrants and refugees in each respective host country (such as "Venezolanos" in the case of Colombia). The coding process adhered to the content analysis methodology described Neuendorf (2017). NVivo 12 (Luminero, 2017) was used to facilitate the organization and maintenance of the codebook components: consensus of news analysis, information about each code, and a comprehensive documenting log of the process. Intercoder reliability standards were successfully met through testing, with a kappa agreement between coders using data from the Greek newspaper ranging from 0.59 to 0.61 per year and a high percent agreement between 81 and 86 percent. To ensure consistency and coherence in the coding process, a third coder worked with Spanish data from the Colombia newspaper, adhering to the same coding structure used in Greece. Regular meetings were held among coders working in both countries' contexts to ensure consistent codebook application and foster discussions on proposed changes or additions. Additionally, given that there was only one coder for the Colombian dataset, the team, including coders from the Greece context, coded samples of the Colombian data to compare with the coders' work and identify potential similarities and differences between Colombia and Greece.