FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus

The MIGR-TWIT Corpus is a multilingual corpus of tweets about the topic of migration in Europe, developed within the framework of the OLiNDiNUM (Observatoire LINguistique du DIscours NUMérique, Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate), with the aim of documenting and analyzing online public discourse on (im)migration in contemporary European politics. Considering the global issue of migration over the last decade (2011–2022), and in order to observe discursive evolution accros the political spectrum and in two national contexts (France and the UK), the MIGR-TWIT Corpus was published: MIGR-TWIT Corpus. Migration Tweets of right and far-right politics in Europe (Battaglia, Blandino, Jeon & Pietrandrea, 2022) UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2012-2022 FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 FR-L-MIGR-TWIT Corpus. Migration Tweets of French Left-wing Politics (Pietrandrea & Jeon, 2023) FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 The FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus, compiled from the FR-R and FR-L modules, comprises 17,395 tweets posted by 39 French political figures and parties (16 right-wing and 23 left-wing) between 2011 and 2022. Tweets containing migr- derivatives were retrieved via the Twitter API v2 Academic Research, and truncated retweets (>140 characters) were restored through targeted verification (for detailed information on each module see the links above). The FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 1.0 offers: tweet URLs (tweet_url) and 44 types of data retrieved through the Full Archive Search endpoints of the Twitter API v2, such as the textual content of tweets (data__text), posting date (data__created_at), user ID (data__author_id), number of retweets (data__public_metrics__retweet_count) likes (data__public_metrics__like_count), replies (data__public_metrics__reply_count), quotes (data__public_metrics__quote_count). (Non-exhaustive list) Scientific reference: Jeon, S. (2025). Le discours numérique sur l'immigration en France entre 2011 et 2022. Une analyse de corpus (Online Discourse on Immigration in France between 2011 and 2022. A Corpus Analysis), PhD Thesis, Université de Lille, France. Pietrandrea, P., Battaglia, E. (2022). “Migrants and the EU”. The diachronic construction of ad hoc categories in French far-right discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 192, 139-157.