DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7871602
title: FR-L-MIGR-TWIT Corpus. Migration Tweets of French Left-wing Politics.

description: The FR-L-MIGR-TWIT Corpus is part of the MIGR-TWIT CORPUS, diachronic bilingual corpus of Tweets about the topic of migration in Europe.Within the framework of the collaborative research project OLiNDiNUM (Observatoire LINguistique du DIscours NUMérique, [Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate]), the MIGR-TWIT Corpora are created with the aim to study the evolution of the public discourse on migration in Europe during the past dozen years from 2011 to 2022. First two components of the corpus represent migration discourse of right-wing politics in France and in the UK. The FR-L-MIGR-TWIT Corpus represents French left-wing politics' migration discourse on Twitter.  

Using the Twitter API v2 Academic Research, the Tweets containing at least one occurrence of lexicon derived from a latin root "migr" of migrare are automatically retrieved from 23 Twitter accounts of French left-wing political figures and parties. 

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.

ContentsThe downloadable version of FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Corpus contains 32 CSV files (tabular format). The corpus is presented in simplified and complete versions in terms of metadata. The simplified version corresponds to one single file named FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022.csv, containing four basic (meta)data, i.e. identifier, text, posting date and username (that is, data__id, data__text, data__created_at and author__name as the table hearder elements). In addition to these four (meta)data, the elaborate version is provided with all Tweet fields information included as a header element, such as the numbers of Replies, Retweets, Likes and Quotes, etc. This version is also available in one single CSV file named FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022_meta.csv.

Besides, the elaborate version is provided with three CSV Zip files: 7 CSV files in the zip file named FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-YEAR_meta correspond to grouped years (i.e. FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2016_meta.csv) or each and every year (e.g. FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2017_meta.csv, and so on) for the last dozen years. 23 files in the zip file named FR-L-NAME-MIGR-TWIT_meta for each and every component of selected French left-wing political figures and parties (e.g. FR-L-Arthaud-TWIT_meta.csv). The zip file named FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022_meta contains yearly Tweets of each and every component of political figures and parties.

Detailed information of the FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 CORPUS is illustrated below.



Created at: 2023-04-18

Language: FR

Coverage: 23 user accounts ; 5,636 Tweets ; 169,818 words

Time of data collection: start=2011-01-01 ; end=2022-06-30

Keywords: words derived from a latine root “migr” of migrare

Corpus composition:







 



Political Figure/party



Type of representative



Username



migr-Tweets





1



Adrien Quatennens



PERSON (M)



@AQuatennens



315





2



Alexis Corbière



PERSON(M)



@Alexiscorbiere



209





3



Anne Hidalgo



PERSON (F)



@Anne_Hidalgo



801





4



Arnaud Montebourg*



PERSON (M)



@montebourg



7





5



Benoît Hamon



PERSON (M)



@benoithamon



172





6



Christiane Taubira



PERSON (F)



@ChTaubira



11





7



Clémentine Autain



PERSON (F)



@Clem_Autain



102





8



Danièle Obono



PERSON (F)



@Deputee_Obono



415





9



Esther Benbassa**



PERSON (F)



@EstherBenbassa



936





10



François Hollande



PERSON (M)



@fhollande



28





11



François_Ruffin



PERSON (M)



@Francois_Ruffin



19





12



Jean-Luc Mélenchon



PERSON (M)



@JLMelenchon



240





13



Manon Aubry



PERSON (F)



@ManonAubryFr



182





14



Natalie Arthaud



PERSON (F)



@n_arthaud



165





15



Philippe Poutou



PERSON (M)



@PhilippePoutou



83





16



Raphael Glucksmann



PERSON (M)



@rglucks1



142





17



Yannick Jadot



PERSON (M)



@yjadot



374





18



Europe Écologie-Les Verts



ORGANIZATION



@EELV



484





19



Gauche Républicaine et Socialiste



ORGANIZATION



@Gauche_RS



73





20



Génération.s



ORGANIZATION



@GenerationsMvt



165





21



La France Insoumise



ORGANIZATION



@FranceInsoumise



300





22



Parti Radical Gauche



ORGANIZATION



@PartiRadicalG



37





23



Parti Socialiste



ORGANIZATION



@partisocialiste



376







Political figures and parties, listed in alphabetical order, are selected according to the four criteria: (1) the high number of migr-tweets, (2) the political affiliation, (3) the political careers, that is, the Member of the European Parliament or (4) the presidential candidate during the period between 2011 and 2022. These four criteria are not mutually exclusive.

As part of a doctoral thesis (Jeon, 2025), the FR-L-MIGR-TWIT and FR-R-MIGR-TWIT corpora are compiled, annotated and analyzed through a comparative discourse analysis approach, with the aim to study the semantic construction of migr-lexicon over the period between 2011 and 2022.

*One migration Tweet retrieved from the user account @montebourg for the year of 2019 was removed and is not included in his 7 migr-tweets because it refers to the issue of the migration of honey bees.

**We later added the user account @EstherBenbassa represented by Esther Benbassa, senator and former member of political party Europe Écologie-Les Verts (representative of the user account @EELV), because of the high number of her migr-tweets that were retweeted by @EELV.


The MIGR-TWIT Corpus consists of three subcorpora for a total amount of 23,869 Tweets and 703,016 words:



FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Corpus: French Right-wing politics' migr-tweets

UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2011-2022 Corpus: British Right-wing politics' migr-tweets

FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Corpus: French Left-wing politics' migr-tweets 


 
description: This corpus is distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Its reuse is permitted for non-commercial purposes, including research and education.
description: New version information

This dataset has been integrated into the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0.