The consequences of colonialism in Latvia during a mass migration period in Europe (2015/2016)

Figures & data

Table 1. International long-term migration of the population in Latvia per year between 2005 and 2013 (1000)

	Emigration	Immigration
2005	17.6	6.7
2006	17	8.2
2007	15.5	7.5
2008	27	4.7
2009	38.2	3.7
2010	39.7	4
2011	30.3	10.2
2012	25.2	13.3
2013	22.6	8.3

Table 2. Detainees, illegal immigrants and trespassers in Latvia, 2015

Vietnam	309
Afganistan	30
Russia	35
Iraq	70
India	7
Pakistan	6
Syria	5

Table 3. The number of publications covering the refuge crisis: Diena & Latvijas Avize. 08.2015 -01.2016

	Diena	Latvijas Avīze
August	31	48
September	54	88
October	39	59
November	40	43
December	29	40
January	36	45

Table 4. Using newspapers in Latvia. Period: August 2013–January 2016

	39.6	25.5
Daily	35	12
Sometimes	54.8	22
Never	3.2	18
Reading friends	17	4
Reading parents	19	4
The internet	29	51
Other sources	3.2	17

Table 5. Latvian media about refugee problem (%)

	39.6	25.5
Good	3.2	3.8
Statisfying	22.6	14.3
Bad	32.3	33
Tendentious	38.7	25
I read other sources	3.2	12

Table 6. How is the refugee issue reflected in the Latvian media? 2015/2016 (%)

	Diena	NRA	LA	L Radio	Radio SWH	LTV	LNT	TVNET	Delfi	Apollo	KasJauns
Perfectly	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Well	9	9	16	14	8	21	10	5	6	5	4
Objectively	8	2	0	5	5	5	5	6	7	6	1
Tendentiously	16	22	18	14	14	23	23	27	32	26	26
Average	21	16	14	20	21	20	26	25	26	29	20
Not intresting	6	6	6	6	9	3	8	3	5	6	11

Table 7. An analysis of the recurrence of the words “refugee” & “migrant” in Diena and Latvijas Avīze between October and December, 2015

	October, 2015	December, 2015
Refygees	2	10
Migrants	24	11
Asylum seekers	19	6
Imigrants	13	7
They	2	3
Human beings	9	7
Aliens	1	6

Table 8. How would you describe a person called as a refugee? (%)

	39.6	25.5
Refugee	25.8	75
Asylum seeker	12.9	12
Migrant	29	19
Economic migrant	6.5	6.4
Illegally	9.7	2.6
Trespasser	9.7	3.9

Table 9. Would you ever meet a refuge? (%)

	39.6	25.5
Yes	20	12
No	42	89
Gladly	20	29
Not interested	20	5
Never	50	20

Table 10. Du you use information from the EU about the refugee crisis in Latvia? (%)

	25.5
Yes	6
No	52
Sometimes	25
Don’t know	7
Haven’t noticed

Table 11. Which source informs the best about the refugee crisis? (%)

	LV news	LV internet	LV radio	LV TV	EU	F news	F radio	F TV	F int port	Ru media
Accurately	13	1	6	8	3	3	3	1	5	1
Exhaustively	4	2	2	1	8	8	8	6	16	1
Wisely	8	10	19	18	14	14	14	17	19	4
Tiresomely	10	9	7	14	5	4	4	4	4	4
Tendentiously	12	25	8	15	10	6	6	9	8	29
Boring	8	5	9	5	5	5	5	4	3	5

Table 12. Foreign media covering the refugee crisis 2015/2016 (%)

	News	Overview	Reports	Photo	Documentaries	Movies	Discussions	Interview
Nordic countries	13	10	9	11	4	5	6	5
Germany	19	9	13	9	0	1	10	10
France	9	5	8	8	2	0	5	2
UK	32	16	22	34	8	9	16	16
USA	23	9	14	15	9	16	16	16
Russia	13	6	6	6	9	5	8	6