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Explaining the travelling behaviour of migrants using Facebook audience estimates
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238947 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
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Abstract
- The paper explores the travelling behaviour of migrant groups using Facebook audience estimates. Reduced geographical mobility is associated with increased risk of social exclusion and reduced socio-economic and psychological well-being. Facebook audience estimates are timely, openly available and cover most of the countries in the world. Facebook classifies its users based on multiple attributes such as the country of their previous residence, and whether they are frequent travellers. Using these data, we modelled the travelling behaviour of Facebook users grouped by countries of previous and current residence, gender and age. We found strong indications that the frequency of travelling is lower for Facebook users migrating from low-income countries and for women migrating from or living in countries with high gender inequality. Such mobility inequalities impede the smooth integration of migrants from low-income countries to new destinations and their well-being. Moreover, the reduced mobility of women who have lived or currently live in countries with conservative gender norms capture another aspect of the integration which is referring to socio-cultural norms and gender inequality. However, to provide more solid evidence on whether our findings are also valid for the general population, collaboration with Facebook is required to better understand how the data is being produced and pre-processed.
- Subjects :
- Male
Facebook
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Social Sciences
02 engineering and technology
Destinations
Geographical locations
Sociology
Advertising
Psychology
Statistical Data
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Marketing
Transients and Migrants
Travel
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Multidisciplinary
Statistics
05 social sciences
Social Communication
021107 urban & regional planning
Europe
Geographical Mobility
ComputingMilieux_GENERAL
Social Networks
Physical Sciences
Income
Regression Analysis
Medicine
Female
Network Analysis
Research Article
Estonia
Computer and Information Sciences
Inequality
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Science
Sexism
Population
Models, Psychological
Sexual and Gender Issues
0502 economics and business
Humans
European Union
Least-Squares Analysis
education
Poverty
Behavior
050210 logistics & transportation
Social geography
Biology and Life Sciences
Communications
United States
Increased risk
Socioeconomic Factors
Age Groups
North America
People and Places
Population Groupings
Demographic economics
Social exclusion
Residence
Social Media
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3074a0e6015c188b29928fc13bdb34c1