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Assessing Media’s Representation of Frustration Towards Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS 2023)

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Abstract

This research utilizes statistical path modeling to examine the relationship between the number of Venezuelans migrating to Colombia due to economic collapse and the media's coverage of specific topics. We focus on media coverage expressing frustration regarding migration, infrastructure, government, and geopolitics. Our approach combines quantitative analysis of code frequencies from qualitative content analysis of 1,360 regional newspaper articles on migration-related issues. Our findings indicate that an increase in the Venezuelan population in Colombia leads to more negative media coverage of infrastructure impacts, such as hospitals and schools. This negative coverage, referred to as “frustration,” indirectly contributes to increased coverage of infrastructure frustration. This suggests an opportunity for intervention by balancing media coverage to reduce the excessive use of negative language and stereotypes, potentially mitigating anti-migrant sentiment fueled by frustration towards infrastructure. Furthermore, we observe that as migration increases, coverage of frustration towards geopolitics decreases, while frustration towards the Colombian government rises. This shift may reflect a transition from contemplating the causes of migration to focusing on the humanitarian response (or lack thereof) by the host government in accommodating the new arrivals.

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Notes

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    Some of the keywords used to extract articles are “Venezolanos” (Venezuelans), “Migrantes” (migrants), “Frontera” (border), and “Crisis y Venezuela” (Crisis and Venezuela). The research team has applied filters to eliminate news articles that are not related to the situation in Colombia.

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    Statistical analyses were carried out with the “lavaan package” in R-3.4.0 statistical software.

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    s is the quotient of \({\chi }^{2}\) and df.

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Acknowledgment

This research is funded by grant number N000141912624 by the Office of Naval Research through the Minerva Research Initiative. This research is additionally funded by grant number P116S210003 by the US Department of Education. Liss Romero & Lia Castillo (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) and Lydia Cleveland & Madison Gonzalez (VMASC) created the codebooks and qualitatively coded the news articles.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Brian Llinas

  2. Graduate Program of International Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Guljannat Huseynli

  3. Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University, Suffolk, VA, USA

    Brian Llinas, Guljannat Huseynli, Erika Frydenlund & Jose J. Padilla

  4. Universidad del Norte, Kilómetro 5 Vía, Puerto Colombia, Atlántico, Colombia

    Katherine Palacio & Humberto Llinas

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Llinas, B., Huseynli, G., Frydenlund, E., Palacio, K., Llinas, H., Padilla, J.J. (2023). Assessing Media’s Representation of Frustration Towards Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia. In: Thomson, R., Al-khateeb, S., Burger, A., Park, P., A. Pyke, A. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43129-6_13

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