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Immigrant Narratives in German Newspapers

Kai Gehring, Joop Adema, Panu Poutvaara
CESifo, Munich, 2023

EconPol Forum 24 (4), 73-77
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  • We measure immigrant narratives in German newspapers and assign each sentence to one of seven themes
  • Using natural language processing (NLP) tools and customized dictionaries, we analyze over 100,000 articles
  • 45 percent of narratives are on Foreign Religion, 23 percent on Cultural Integration, and only 12 percent on Economic themes
  • Changes in sentiment in immigrant narratives come mainly from shifts between themes
  • Southern and Eastern European immigrants receive much more positive coverage than Arabs and Turks

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