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This paper began as a conversation during my research stay at Western University (Canada, @westernu.ca) — and we kept that conversational structure. Hence, it’s not your usual journal article. We went for an unconventional, dialogue-style format and had a lot of fun doing it!

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While demand for timely data on migrants & refugees grows, recruiting them for surveys can be challenging. Could ads on #Facebook and #Instagram be part of the answer? In this piece, @somardrawoh.bsky.social & I unpack promises and the pitfalls.

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Of course, we acknowledge the limitations of non-prob. sampling. This article is not meant to present an alternative. But: Our findings may be valuable to those seeking to conduct global surveys without a sampling frame or aiming to combine sampling techniques to offset their limitations.

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Furthermore, many of the emigrants in our sample would have been missed by the register-based sampling approach.

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Germany is special as its population registers enable probability-based sampling of emigrants. This gave us a rare benchmark to compare our Meta-based recruitment against. We also reached respondents in regions where the register-based sampling was less effective.

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We show that ads on Facebook and Instagram can be a low-cost, effective way to reach hard-to-access populations—like emigrants—around the world.

With a modest budget, we surveyed nearly 4,000 Germans who had moved to 148 countries & territories.

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(c) The figure repeats a political rhetoric framing the de facto suspension of the Schengen Agreement as a measure of “refugee policy” without addressing the ongoing scientific discussion questioning this narrative.

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I find it unfortunate that the posted content focuses on a rather superficial level on the opinion of the general population towards a highly politicized issue that is partly driven by deliberate misinformation of the public instead of issues related to refugees’ struggle.

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(b) #WorldrRefugeeDay “honours the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.” (www.unhcr.org/get-involved...). In which way is this post contributing to this spirit?

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This post leaves me quite puzzled for so many reasons: (a) World refugee day is on June 20, not July 20, hence, why was this posted today with reference to #WorldRefugeeDay?

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