Irregular and Refugee Flows to Europe: Decoding Migration Decisions through an Algorithm.
Why do individuals from the global South migrate to Europe bypassing legal pathways? This study examines the question using an algorithm that leverages OpenAI (LLM: GPT-4), NLP, and Python libraries to extract data from literature. It explores two competing concepts: "cyclical global hegemony" and "...
| Published in: | Comparative Sociology Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 481 - 527 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2025
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