Migration Research in a Digitized World

Steffen Pötzschke is a postdoctoral researcher and deputy team leader of the GESIS Panel at the GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim (Germany). Furthermore, he is a corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (University of Osnabrück, Germany). Steffen holds a master's degree in International Migration and Intercultural Relations and a doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the University of Osnabrück. Steffen participated in several migration research projects and has profound practical knowledge in designing and implementing cross-cultural surveys. In his recent research, he investigates the possibility of using social networking sites as tools to sample hard-to-reach populations.

Sebastian Rinken (PhD, European University Institute, 1996) is deputy director of the Spanish Research Council's Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) in Córdoba. He has published widely on immigrant populations' social integration and natives' attitudes toward immigration and immigrants, addressing issues such as the relation between ideological polarization and anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as the methodological challenge of eluding social desirability bias, among many others. His methodological repertoire includes qualitative approaches, probability-based surveys, non-probability sampling for on-site and online surveys, and survey experiments.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Using Innovative Technologies to Tackle Methodological Challenges in Migration Research.- Part I: INNOVATION IN MIGRANT SURVEYS.- Chapter 2. Innovative Sample Designs for Studies of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.- Chapter 3. Targeting on Social Networking Sites as Sampling Strategy for Online Migrant Surveys: The Challenge of Biases and Search for Possible Solutions.- Chapter 4. Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling in Research on Multiple Migrants: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 5. Computer-assisted Migration Research: What We Can Learn about Source Questionnaire Design and Translation from the Software Localization Field.- Chapter 6. Surveying Illiterates: Are Audio Files in Computer-assisted Self-interviews a Useful Supportive Tool?.- Part II: NEW DATA SOURCES AND THEIR POTENTIAL.- Chapter 7. Leveraging the Web for Migration Studies: Data Sources and Data Extraction.- Chapter 8. How Canada's Data Ecosystem Offers Insights on the Options for Studying Migration in an Unprecedented Era of Information.- Chapter 9. Assessing Transnational Human Mobility on a Global Scale.- Chapter 10. Google Trends as a Tool for Public Opinion Research: An Illustration of the Perceived Threats of Immigration.- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Migration Research in Times of Ubiquitous Digitization.