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The migration rate and the level of resentments towards migrants are an important issue in modern civilisation. The infamous EU refugee crisis caught many countries unprepared, leading to sporadic and rudimentary containment measures that,…

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In this study, the wind data series from five locations in Aegean Sea islands, the most active `hotspots' in terms of refugee influx during the Oct/2015 - Jan/2016 period, are investigated. The analysis of the three-per-site data series…

Applications · Statistics 2017-07-26 Harris V. Georgiou

For nowadays severe refugee issue, we primarily set up an evaluation pattern on refugee crisis. Then, we modify our model in the consideration that time and external factors. Besides, we propose a set of policy to facilitate migration…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Jiahui Chen , Mengjia Zhou , Bernie Liu

Recently, there have been considerable efforts to use online data to investigate international migration. These efforts show that Web data are valuable for estimating migration rates and are relatively easy to obtain. However, existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Johnnatan Messias , Fabricio Benevenuto , Ingmar Weber , Emilio Zagheni

The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration recently announced a pilot project for a machine learning-based assignment process for refugee resettlement. This approach has the potential to substantially increase the overall employment rate of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Nils Olberg , Sven Seuken

An emerging area of research is the study of macroscale migration patterns as a network of nodes that represent places (e.g., countries, cities, and rural areas) and edges that encode migration ties that connect those places. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Valentin Danchev , Mason A. Porter

Modelling migration is complicated, as people move for many reasons. Some leave their country for the first time, others return to places they once called home, or move on to new destinations. However, most models focus only on who arrives,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Carsten Källner , Ola Ali , Andrea Vismara , Guillermo Prieto-Viertel , Rafael Prieto-Curiel

Employment outcomes of resettled refugees depend strongly on where they are placed inside the host country. Each week, a resettlement agency is assigned a batch of refugees by the United States government. The agency must place these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Narges Ahani , Paul Gölz , Ariel D. Procaccia , Alexander Teytelboym , Andrew C. Trapp

We propose a framework to examine future migration patterns of people under different sea level rise scenarios using models of human migration. Specifically, we couple a sea level rise model with a data-driven model of human migration,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Caleb Robinson , Bistra Dilkina , Juan Moreno-Cruz

Understanding and predicting human migration patterns is a central challenge in population dynamics research. Traditional physics-inspired gravity and radiation models represent migration flows as functions of attractiveness using…

Applications · Statistics 2024-12-03 Aric Cutuli , Upmanu Lall , Michael J. Puma , Émile Esmaili , Rachata Muneepeerakul

Being able to model and forecast international migration as precisely as possible is crucial for policymaking. Recently Google Trends data in addition to other economic and demographic data have been shown to improve the forecasting quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Nicolas Golenvaux , Pablo Gonzalez Alvarez , Harold Silvère Kiossou , Pierre Schaus

A growing attention in the empirical literature has been paid to the incidence of climate shocks and change in migration decisions. Previous literature leads to different results and uses a multitude of traditional empirical approaches.…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-08 John Aoga , Juhee Bae , Stefanija Veljanoska , Siegfried Nijssen , Pierre Schaus

Migration's influence in shaping population dynamics in times of impending climate and population crises exposes its crucial role in upholding societal cohesion. As migration impacts virtually all aspects of life, it continues to require…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-24 Dino Pitoski , Ana Meštrović , Hans Schmeets

In this study, we addressed the refugee crisis through two main models. For predicting the ultimate number of refugees, we first established a Logistic Regression Model, but due to the limited data points, its prediction accuracy was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yunfei Liu

The methodological issues and statistical complexities of analyzing university students with migrant backgrounds is explored, focusing on Italian data from the University of Milano-Bicocca. With the increasing size of migrant populations…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-13 Lorenzo Giammei , Laura Terzera , Fulvia Mecatti

In this study, we introduce a novel two-pronged scoring system to measure individual and systemic bias in immigration courts under the U.S. Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). We analyze nearly 6 million immigration court…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Vyoma Raman , Catherine Vera , CJ Manna

Evacuation planning is an important and challenging element in emergency management due to the high level of uncertainty and numerous players and agencies involved in the event. To address all the factors with conflicting objectives,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Fardad Haghpanah , Hamid Foroughi

This paper presents a quantitative framework for forecasting immigrant integration using immigrant density as the single driver. By comparing forecasted integration estimates based on data collected up to specific periods in time, with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Pierluigi Contucci , Rickard Sandell , Seyedalireza Seyedi

The Brain Drain phenomenon is particularly heterogeneous and is characterized by peculiar specifications. It influences the economic fundamentals of both the country of origin and the host one in terms of human capital accumulation. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-22 A. E. Biondo , A. Pluchino , A. Rapisarda

The United Nations is the major organization producing and regularly updating probabilistic population projections for all countries. International migration is a critical component of such projections, and between-country correlations are…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-30 Jonathan J. Azose , Adrian E. Raftery