An Exploratory Data Analysis of Keyword Associations in LIS Immigration Scholarship

Hassan Mortada; Saguna Shankar; Sydney Pagan; Samuel Dodson

doi:10.1002/pra2.1481

An Exploratory Data Analysis of Keyword Associations in LIS Immigration Scholarship

Hassan Mortada
, Saguna Shankar
, Sydney Pagan
, Samuel Dodson

Information Science

SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Through this inquiry, we identify associations between immigration-related terms in the library and information science (LIS) literature over the last decade. We report on an exploratory data analysis of selected keywords in immigration-related LIS scholarship, interpreting legal–criminalized and individual–social and societal distinctions. Our preliminary findings suggest that associations between migration-related keywords are essential for LIS scholars and practitioners to reflect upon, and we emphasize the responsibility of wielding keywords with attention to the connotations they may reinforce or reimagine.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1603-1605
Number of pages	3
Journal	Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1481
State	Published - Oct 2025

Keywords

Correspondence Analysis
Discourse
Immigration
Keyword Co-occurrence
Scoping Review

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