README.md

# Assimilation
A study of immigrant assimilation using both Facebook advertising data and a traditional survey.
For more information, please refer to the WebConf 2019 paper [here](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09453.pdf):

```
Stewart, I., Flores, R., Riffe, T., Weber, I., & Zagheni, E. (2019). Rock, Rap, or Reggaeton?: Assessing Mexican Immigrants' Cultural Assimilation Using Facebook Data. WebConf 2019.
```

## Install
Running the code requires installing packages with `conda`.
We need Python2.7 for `PySocialWatcher` until it gets upgraded to Python3+ (TBD).

```
conda create -n assimilation_py27 python=2.7 anaconda
conda install -r requirements.txt
```

## Running code

Before running code, the environment should be activated:

```
conda activate assimilation_py27
```

All code should be run from the base directory, e.g.:

```
python example_mine.py
```

To deactivate the environment after running code:

```
deactivate
```

## Relevant papers
- Measuring immigrant assimilation on Facebook: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09430.pdf
- Social ties of immigrant communities: https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/the-social-ties-of-immigrant-communities-in-the-united-states.pdf
- Monitoring migrant stock: http://www.zagheni.net/uploads/3/4/4/7/34477700/zagheni_weber_gummadi_2017_accepted_version.pdf

## Resources

- American FactFinder (census data; American Community Survey estimates): https://factfinder.census.gov/
- Pew Hispanic (census data): http://www.pewhispanic.org/2017/05/03/facts-on-u-s-immigrants-current-data/