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Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks

Social and Information Networks 2015-12-16 v2

Abstract

The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern refugees in Europe. We show that antagonism towards refugees is mostly coming from the United States and is mostly partisan.

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@article{arxiv.1512.04310,
  title  = {Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks},
  author = {Kareem Darwish and Walid Magdy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04310},
  year   = {2015}
}

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3 pages, 1 table, and 2 figures