Generation E

The voice of Mediterranean migration

Jacopo Ottaviani – @JackOttaviani

Berlin, 27th November 2014

Generation E in numbers

 

  • 3 main threads
  • 4 data journalists 
    • Sara Moreira (@saritamoreira, Portugal)
    • Daniele Grasso (@danielegrasso, Spain)
    • Katerina Stavroula (@i_catrin, Greece)
    • Jacopo Ottaviani (@jackottaviani, project manager, Italy)
  • 6 languages
  • 7+ media outlets
  • Several countries involved (both origin/destination)
  • 1600+ stories collected

Why E?

  • Europe
  • Expatriate
  • Emigration
  • Exodus
  • Erasmus
  • Exile
  • Escape
  • Easyjet
  • E-mail
  • ...

Objectives

Dive into the generation of young south-european migrants

  • Connect data to stories (and viceversa)
  • Show limits & lacks of existing data
  • Approach the topic from a pan-european angle
  • Publish stories in multiple languages, raise awareness, fight clichés across EU
  • Gather a critical mass of users for future developments of the project

Three main tracks

  1. Crowdsourcing stories from young migrants
  2. Interviews of policy-makers, researchers and associations
  3. Data investigation (for each country)

1st launch 8.9.2014

  • Results: 1200 stories in one Excel file
  • Multilingual crowdsourcing campaign
  • Handmade front-end design (to be embedded in newspapers)
  • Data to investigate migration flows
  • Source of stories for post series

2nd launch 24.11.2014

 

  • Major findings based on collected data
  • interviews to researchers and stakeholders 
  • fragments of stories
  • form re-launch for future developments
  • 8 interviews in German of migrants living in Germany (courtesy of CORRECT!V) - coming soon!

More data

More stories

Major finding #1 - Driving factors

Major finding #2 - Registration

Major finding #3 - Inclination to return

Limits & Potentials

  1. The sample is not representative of the population
  2. Still useful to tell stories and find interesting insights
  3. Methodology behind dataset is not scientific. 
  4. However: gold mine of narratives and stories

Future directions

  • "Explode" the project in more destination countries 
  • Involve new countries (e.g. Romania)
  • Publish more stories of migrants ("give numbers a face")
  • Explore new narratives and new formats
  • Go on-the-ground, meet people and make videos
  • Experiment some Natural Language Processing on the stories dataset
  • Go offline (events, exhibitions, etc.)

What Portuguese young migrants miss the most?

courtesy of Sara Moreira

Thank you!

Questions? Want to talk?

@jackottaviani

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