What is it about?
In the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, we investigated whether the general impression of a stance shift towards migration is confirmed by how the topic is reflected in online news and social media in five EU Countries, thus linking the representation of the issue on the Internet to its perception in society. We introduce a novel approach for multilingual stance detection in a context-dependent setting that can generalize to further languages and ease cross-country studies.
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The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of refugees to flee the country. Four months after the start of the war, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported 5.1M Ukrainian refugees. In contrast to previous migration movements coming from conflict zones in the Middle East, the humanitarian crisis at the EU border resulting from Ukrainians escaping the war prompted a massive reaction of support by the western media and a great display of solidarity from the European public.
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This page is a summary of: Migration Reframed? A multilingual analysis on the stance shift in Europe during the Ukrainian crisis, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3543507.3583442.
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