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A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07036v1
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:28:09 GMT
Title: A Computational Analysis of the Dehumanisation of Migrants from Syria and Ukraine in Slovene News Media
Authors: Jaya Caporusso, Damar Hoogland, Mojca Brglez, Boshko Koloski, Matthew Purver, Senja Pollak,
Abstract summary: We adapt a recently proposed approach for English to study attitudes to migration expressed in Slovene newspapers. We examine changes in the discourse on migration between the 2015-16 migration crisis following the war in Syria and the 2022-23 period following the war in Ukraine. We find that while this discourse became more negative and more intense over time, it is less dehumanising when specifically addressing Ukrainian migrants compared to others.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Dehumanisation involves the perception and or treatment of a social group's members as less than human. This phenomenon is rarely addressed with computational linguistic techniques. We adapt a recently proposed approach for English, making it easier to transfer to other languages and to evaluate, introducing a new sentiment resource, the use of zero-shot cross-lingual valence and arousal detection, and a new method for statistical significance testing. We then apply it to study attitudes to migration expressed in Slovene newspapers, to examine changes in the Slovene discourse on migration between the 2015-16 migration crisis following the war in Syria and the 2022-23 period following the war in Ukraine. We find that while this discourse became more negative and more intense over time, it is less dehumanising when specifically addressing Ukrainian migrants compared to others.

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