Generation E
The voice of Mediterranean migration
Jacopo Ottaviani – @JackOttaviani
Berlin, 27th November 2014
Generation E in numbers
- 3 main threads
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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
- ...
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
- Crowdsourcing stories from young migrants
- Interviews of policy-makers, researchers and associations
- 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
- The sample is not representative of the population
- Still useful to tell stories and find interesting insights
- Methodology behind dataset is not scientific.
- 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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