Children's Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue
This AHRC-funded project aimed to make European broadcasters, policy-makers, children’s advocacy groups and content producers aware of the urgent, unprecedented, information and entertainment needs shared by hundreds of thousands of young children who have recently fled to Europe from Arab countries and European-born children who have watched them arrive.
Research Context
UNHCR data showed that children made up 51 per cent of the world’s refugees in 2015 and that Syrians formed the world’s largest refugee population; Syrians accounted for half the people crossing the Mediterranean in 2016, while Iraq and Sudan were other Arab countries in the top 10 sources of refugees. In Europe, Germany and Sweden offered by far the largest number of places to fleeing families and separated or unaccompanied children. Thousands of Arabic- speaking families have taken up residence in Germany and Sweden in the last two years, while hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children had found homes in these countries and the UK.
This project, focused on impact and engagement, was supported by research arising from a 3-year-project entitled Orientation in the Development of Pan-Arab Television for Children (ah/1000674/1), which investigated production, distribution and content of screen media for Arab children and their use of it, including use by children of Arab heritage in the UK.
This impact and engagement project was underpinned by findings from all strands of the original research, including the fact Arab children in Europe had been exposed in their home countries not only to real-life crises but an omnipresent, unregulated stream of mediatised atrocities. Media and other bodies in Europe now need to integrate the needs of Arab and other migrant children and families into their forward planning and commissioning. For this to happen effectively, it was necessary to widen media discourse about how child audiences were understood and represented.
Our previous research project pointed to gaps that European media could fill in addressing Arab and other migrant children, whose previous experience of children’s content had been dominated by didacticism, lacking in entertaining formats, and subject to well-intentioned but top-down, stop-go production decisions by ruling elites that had not been suited to nurturing local creativity or building supply chains.
At a time of dwindling budgets for children’s screen content, there were also strong economic reasons for encouraging low-cost innovative and interactive cultural production that involved cross-border collaboration and meets urgent needs.
Engaging on issues of good practice with European stakeholders had potential for influence elsewhere in Europe, promoted learning about citizenship and local social engagement among children whose parents may be experiencing homesickness and disorientation and whose extended families were scattered across countries and continents.
Aims
This follow-on project aimed to transfer knowledge gain through research into developments in screen content for Arabic-speaking children in ways that could assist European broadcasters, policy-makers, producers and children’s advocacy groups to better understand the information and entertainment needs shared by young Arabic-speaking children who have fled to Europe from Arab countries.
Our project showed how imaginatively produced screen content for young children could fill worrying gaps in what was currently available to children on all sides of the forced migration flow at a time when young children struggled to make sense of the new environment in which they found themselves.
Our objectives were to use our original AHRC research findings to:
1. Alert European screen content practitioners to the media needs, wants and experiences of young (under 12) Arabic-speaking migrant children and families.
2. Create spaces for critical reflection and dialogue between European cultural gatekeepers who regulate, commission, fund, produce or comment on children’s content and practitioners with experience of children’s media in Arab countries.
3. Help European stakeholders to think through policy, production initiatives, public discourse and professional practice as they seek to ensure that pluralistic and high quality content is available to an increasingly diverse young audience.
4. Identify effective elements of regulation, financing, production and advocacy practice applicable to screen content aimed at young migrant children in Europe.
5. Demonstrate to key European and Arab stakeholders how children’s media rights, articulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), are fundamental to children’s future participation as citizens, and prompt further research into how screen media can help migrant children develop their identities in new environments.
6. Raise awareness of the communication needs of migrant children among a wider public.
We sought to achieve objectives 1-3 through three international workshops:
- One at the 8th Children’s Global Media Summit (CGMS), hosted by BBC MediaCity, Salford, 4 December 2017
- One at CPH: Dox – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, 19-20th March 2018
- One co-organised with the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany, 24 May 2018.
Objectives 4-6 were achieved through a series of briefings and publications based on the workshop, made available here—the project culminated with a symposium in London on 14 September 2018.
You can read more about the workshops and the symposium in the Activity tab.
Network
Our project network aimed to provide a platform for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of Arab children, media, and migration.
You can read more about it on our dedicated page.
Publications
Reports
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue: Consolidated Report on an AHRC Project for Impact and Engagement: Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration – 8 October 2017 to 3 November 2018. London: King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). London Symposium Briefing: Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration (14 September 2018). King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Project Report to Stakeholders – Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue – Prix Jeunesse International, Munich: Workshop Briefing 3: Drama, Storytelling, Empathy, 24 May 2018. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue – CPH: Dox Festival, Copenhagen: Workshop Briefing 2: Documentaries, Distribution, Ethics, 19-20 March 2018. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue: Workshop Briefing, Children’s Global Media Summit, BBC Media City, Salford Quays, 4 December 2017. King’s College London.
- Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)/Arab Media Centre (2015). Orientations in the Development of Screen Media for Arabic-speaking children. London: University of Westminster. (For Arabic version click here)
Books
- Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers (2019) Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in the Multiplatform Era. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Tarik Sabry and Nisrine Mansour (2019) Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Jeanette Steemers and Naomi Sakr (eds, 2017) Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education. London: IB Tauris.
Articles
- Sabry, T. and Ait Mansour, H. (2020) ‘Regulating Children’s Media Content in Morocco’. Economia HEM Research Centre and British Academy.
- Singer, C., Steemers, J. & Sakr, N. (2019) ‘Representing Childhood and Forced Migration: Narratives of Borders and Belonging in European Screen Content for Children‘. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2(1), pp. 202-204. Accepted author manuscript via King’s Research Portal.
- Steemers J. and Sakr, N. (2019) ‘Diversity, Migration and Children: Locating Media Policy and Production Gaps through Euro-Arab Dialogue’ August 14, LSE Digital Parenting Website.
- Sakr, N. (2018) ‘Smarter, Stronger, Kinder’: Interests at Stake in the Remaking of Iftah ya Simsim for Gulf Children’. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11(1): 9-28
- Sakr, N. (2017) ‘Provision, Protection or Participation? Approaches to Regulating Children’s Television in Arab Countries‘. Media International Australia 163: 1, 31-41.
- Sakr, N. (2016) ‘Children’s Access to Beneficial Information in Arab States: Implementation of Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates‘. Global Studies of Childhood, 1-12.
- Steemers, J. (2016) ‘Production Studies, Transformations in Children’s Television and the Global Turn‘. Journal of Children and the Media 10:1, 123-131.
Book Chapters
- Singer, C. Steemers, J. and Sakr, N. (forthcoming) ‘Whither “Integration”? Children’s Television and the Arab Diaspora in Germany’. In M. Alkazemi and C. Youakim (eds) The Arab Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Lexington Books.
- Steemers, J. and Sakr, N. (2020, forthcoming) ‘Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: European and Arab Responses’. In C. Brannon Donoghue, T. Havens and P. McDonald (eds) Media Distribution in the Digital Age, New York: NYU Press.
- Steemers, J. (2019). ‘Invisible children: Inequalities in the Provision of Screen Content for Children’. In J. Trappel, (ed.), Digital media inequalities: Policies against divides, distrust and discrimination (pp. 177-190). Goteborg: Nordicom.
- Sakr, N., Steemers, J. and Singer, C. (2018). ‘Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Missing Voices, Diversity, and Questions of Ethics’. In T. Langan and F. Taffinder (ed.), Children’s Media Yearbook 2018 (pp. 43-46). London: Children’s Media Foundation.
- Steemers, J. (2016). ‘The Context of Localisation: Children’s Television in Western Europe and the Arab-speaking World’. In: A. Esser (ed.), Media across Borders: The Localisation of Audiovisual Content. Abingdon: Routledge, 53-61.
- Steemers, J. (2016). ‘Formats and Localisation in the Children’s Audiovisual Sector’. In: K. Aveyard, P. Jensen and A. Moran (eds). New Patterns in Global Television Formats. London: Intellect, 157-170.
- Sakr, N. and Steemers, J. (2015). ‘Co-Producing Content for Pan-Arab Children’s TV: State, Business, and the Workplace’. In: V. Mayer, B. Conor and M. Bank (eds), Production Studies, The Sequel! Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries. Abingdon: Routledge, 238-50.
Conference Presentations
- Naomi Sakr, J. Steemers, C. Singer: “Responding to changes in child audiences for screen content in Europe“. Cinekid Industry Forum, Amsterdam, 24 October 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Arab-European Dialogue about Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Outcomes and Observations” Arab-European Dialogue about Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Outcomes and Observations”. Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration. Symposium, 14 September 2018, King’s College London.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Children’s Media and Diversity. What’s Next in Europe?“ Ketnet/VRT Briefing Day, Tubeke/Belgium, 31 August 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Children’s Media and Diversity. What’s Next in Europe?” Children’s Media Conference Research Session 7, 4 and 5 July 2018.
- C. Singer, J. Steemers, N. Sakr: “Producing screen content for refugee children in Europe: Authorship, authenticity, and remediation”. 18th International Migration Conference, TU Cologne/Germany, 22 June 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “How do we reach young audiences with content that reflects diversity?” Transnational Television Drama Conference, University of Aarhus/Denmark, 8 June 2018. As part of the Industry Panel: How do we reach young audiences? 8 June 2018. Panellists: Lene Heiselberg, DR Media Research; Jonas Kryger Hansen, Commissioning editor for DR Ultra at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR); Jeanette Steemers, Professor at King’s College in London; and Toke Westmark Steensen, screenwriter of BaseBoys and Klassen. Chairs: Associate Professor Eva N. Redvall and PhD student Mads M. Andersen.
- J. Steemers and N. Sakr. “Policy Communities Seeking to Empower Children through Media: A Comparative Case Study“. Children’s Global Media Summit, Manchester, 7 December 2017.
- J. Steemers. “Children’s Content and the Creative Industries“. Creative Industries, Creative Economies: A Forum, King’s College London and Routledge, 23 October 2017.
- J. Steemers and N. Sakr: “Collaborative integration through kids’ media: the case of Arabic-speaking children”. Global Kids Media Congress, Angouleme/ France, 8 March 2017.
Conferences
Symposium - Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration
The symposium Invisible Children: Children's Media, Diversity and Forced Migration presented the findings from our three workshops, in Manchester, Copenhagen and Munich, focused around issues of diversity including screen content that has been – or could be – made for and about Arabic-speaking and other children newly arrived in Europe through forced migration.
The symposium was hosted at King's, and you can read more about it on the event page.
Pre-Festival Workshop, Prix Jeunesse, Munich, 24 May 2018
This workshop was organised in cooperation with the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) in Munich, Germany. It preceded the Prix Jeunesse International Festival, held from 25-30 May 2018 in Munich.
Outputs
- Munich Workshop Programme
- Munich Workshop Report
- Munich Workshop Slides
- Munich Workshop Clips
CPH:Dox Workshop, Copenhagen, 19-20 March 2018
Our second project workshop took place during the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:Dox) 2018 at Restaurant SULT, on the premises of the Danish Film Institute, in central Copenhagen.
Outputs
- Copenhagen Workshop Programme
- Copenhagen Workshop Report
- Copenhagen Workshop Slides
- Copenhagen Workshop Clips
CGMS Pre-Summit Workshop, BBC, Salford, 4 December 2017
The inaugural project workshop was linked to the 8th Children’s Global Media Summit (CGMS), which took place from 5-7 December 2017. It was hosted by the BBC in Manchester.
Outputs
- Manchester Workshop Programme
- Manchester Workshop Report
- Manchester Workshop Slides
- Manchester Workshop Review
- Manchester Workshop Clips
Media coverage
- December 2018: “Invisible Children: Migrant Arab Children and European Media” – Feature Article in Egypt Today
- September 2018: Review of our End of Project Symposium “Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration” by Public Media Alliance.
- September 2018: Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration.
New blog via Media Diversity Institute - 14 September 2018: article about the “Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration” Symposium
- April 2018: new blog via The Children’s Media Foundation
- December 2017: our review of CGMS 2017 on Public Media Alliance
- December 2017: review of our Pre-CGMS Summit workshop ‘Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration’ by Public Media Alliance
- October 2017: blog post Exploring Good PSM provision for young children in a diversified Europe by Professor Jeanette Steemers and Professor Naomi Sakr via Public Media Alliance
- October 2017: blog post Getting a Euro-Arab conversation going about young children’s media needs in an era of forced migration by Professor Jeanette Steemers via Medium
Publications
Reports
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue: Consolidated Report on an AHRC Project for Impact and Engagement: Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration – 8 October 2017 to 3 November 2018. London: King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). London Symposium Briefing: Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration (14 September 2018). King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Project Report to Stakeholders – Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue – Prix Jeunesse International, Munich: Workshop Briefing 3: Drama, Storytelling, Empathy, 24 May 2018. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab European Dialogue – CPH: Dox Festival, Copenhagen: Workshop Briefing 2: Documentaries, Distribution, Ethics, 19-20 March 2018. King’s College London.
- Steemers, J. H., Sakr, N., & Singer, C. (2018). Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue: Workshop Briefing, Children’s Global Media Summit, BBC Media City, Salford Quays, 4 December 2017. King’s College London.
- Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)/Arab Media Centre (2015). Orientations in the Development of Screen Media for Arabic-speaking children. London: University of Westminster. (For Arabic version click here)
Books
- Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers (2019) Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in the Multiplatform Era. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Tarik Sabry and Nisrine Mansour (2019) Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Jeanette Steemers and Naomi Sakr (eds, 2017) Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education. London: IB Tauris.
Articles
- Sabry, T. and Ait Mansour, H. (2020) ‘Regulating Children’s Media Content in Morocco’. Economia HEM Research Centre and British Academy.
- Singer, C., Steemers, J. & Sakr, N. (2019) ‘Representing Childhood and Forced Migration: Narratives of Borders and Belonging in European Screen Content for Children‘. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2(1), pp. 202-204. Accepted author manuscript via King’s Research Portal.
- Steemers J. and Sakr, N. (2019) ‘Diversity, Migration and Children: Locating Media Policy and Production Gaps through Euro-Arab Dialogue’ August 14, LSE Digital Parenting Website.
- Sakr, N. (2018) ‘Smarter, Stronger, Kinder’: Interests at Stake in the Remaking of Iftah ya Simsim for Gulf Children’. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11(1): 9-28
- Sakr, N. (2017) ‘Provision, Protection or Participation? Approaches to Regulating Children’s Television in Arab Countries‘. Media International Australia 163: 1, 31-41.
- Sakr, N. (2016) ‘Children’s Access to Beneficial Information in Arab States: Implementation of Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates‘. Global Studies of Childhood, 1-12.
- Steemers, J. (2016) ‘Production Studies, Transformations in Children’s Television and the Global Turn‘. Journal of Children and the Media 10:1, 123-131.
Book Chapters
- Singer, C. Steemers, J. and Sakr, N. (forthcoming) ‘Whither “Integration”? Children’s Television and the Arab Diaspora in Germany’. In M. Alkazemi and C. Youakim (eds) The Arab Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Lexington Books.
- Steemers, J. and Sakr, N. (2020, forthcoming) ‘Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: European and Arab Responses’. In C. Brannon Donoghue, T. Havens and P. McDonald (eds) Media Distribution in the Digital Age, New York: NYU Press.
- Steemers, J. (2019). ‘Invisible children: Inequalities in the Provision of Screen Content for Children’. In J. Trappel, (ed.), Digital media inequalities: Policies against divides, distrust and discrimination (pp. 177-190). Goteborg: Nordicom.
- Sakr, N., Steemers, J. and Singer, C. (2018). ‘Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Missing Voices, Diversity, and Questions of Ethics’. In T. Langan and F. Taffinder (ed.), Children’s Media Yearbook 2018 (pp. 43-46). London: Children’s Media Foundation.
- Steemers, J. (2016). ‘The Context of Localisation: Children’s Television in Western Europe and the Arab-speaking World’. In: A. Esser (ed.), Media across Borders: The Localisation of Audiovisual Content. Abingdon: Routledge, 53-61.
- Steemers, J. (2016). ‘Formats and Localisation in the Children’s Audiovisual Sector’. In: K. Aveyard, P. Jensen and A. Moran (eds). New Patterns in Global Television Formats. London: Intellect, 157-170.
- Sakr, N. and Steemers, J. (2015). ‘Co-Producing Content for Pan-Arab Children’s TV: State, Business, and the Workplace’. In: V. Mayer, B. Conor and M. Bank (eds), Production Studies, The Sequel! Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries. Abingdon: Routledge, 238-50.
Conference Presentations
- Naomi Sakr, J. Steemers, C. Singer: “Responding to changes in child audiences for screen content in Europe“. Cinekid Industry Forum, Amsterdam, 24 October 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Arab-European Dialogue about Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Outcomes and Observations” Arab-European Dialogue about Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Outcomes and Observations”. Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration. Symposium, 14 September 2018, King’s College London.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Children’s Media and Diversity. What’s Next in Europe?“ Ketnet/VRT Briefing Day, Tubeke/Belgium, 31 August 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “Children’s Media and Diversity. What’s Next in Europe?” Children’s Media Conference Research Session 7, 4 and 5 July 2018.
- C. Singer, J. Steemers, N. Sakr: “Producing screen content for refugee children in Europe: Authorship, authenticity, and remediation”. 18th International Migration Conference, TU Cologne/Germany, 22 June 2018.
- J. Steemers, N. Sakr, C. Singer: “How do we reach young audiences with content that reflects diversity?” Transnational Television Drama Conference, University of Aarhus/Denmark, 8 June 2018. As part of the Industry Panel: How do we reach young audiences? 8 June 2018. Panellists: Lene Heiselberg, DR Media Research; Jonas Kryger Hansen, Commissioning editor for DR Ultra at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR); Jeanette Steemers, Professor at King’s College in London; and Toke Westmark Steensen, screenwriter of BaseBoys and Klassen. Chairs: Associate Professor Eva N. Redvall and PhD student Mads M. Andersen.
- J. Steemers and N. Sakr. “Policy Communities Seeking to Empower Children through Media: A Comparative Case Study“. Children’s Global Media Summit, Manchester, 7 December 2017.
- J. Steemers. “Children’s Content and the Creative Industries“. Creative Industries, Creative Economies: A Forum, King’s College London and Routledge, 23 October 2017.
- J. Steemers and N. Sakr: “Collaborative integration through kids’ media: the case of Arabic-speaking children”. Global Kids Media Congress, Angouleme/ France, 8 March 2017.
Conferences
Symposium - Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration
The symposium Invisible Children: Children's Media, Diversity and Forced Migration presented the findings from our three workshops, in Manchester, Copenhagen and Munich, focused around issues of diversity including screen content that has been – or could be – made for and about Arabic-speaking and other children newly arrived in Europe through forced migration.
The symposium was hosted at King's, and you can read more about it on the event page.
Pre-Festival Workshop, Prix Jeunesse, Munich, 24 May 2018
This workshop was organised in cooperation with the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) in Munich, Germany. It preceded the Prix Jeunesse International Festival, held from 25-30 May 2018 in Munich.
Outputs
- Munich Workshop Programme
- Munich Workshop Report
- Munich Workshop Slides
- Munich Workshop Clips
CPH:Dox Workshop, Copenhagen, 19-20 March 2018
Our second project workshop took place during the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:Dox) 2018 at Restaurant SULT, on the premises of the Danish Film Institute, in central Copenhagen.
Outputs
- Copenhagen Workshop Programme
- Copenhagen Workshop Report
- Copenhagen Workshop Slides
- Copenhagen Workshop Clips
CGMS Pre-Summit Workshop, BBC, Salford, 4 December 2017
The inaugural project workshop was linked to the 8th Children’s Global Media Summit (CGMS), which took place from 5-7 December 2017. It was hosted by the BBC in Manchester.
Outputs
- Manchester Workshop Programme
- Manchester Workshop Report
- Manchester Workshop Slides
- Manchester Workshop Review
- Manchester Workshop Clips
Media coverage
- December 2018: “Invisible Children: Migrant Arab Children and European Media” – Feature Article in Egypt Today
- September 2018: Review of our End of Project Symposium “Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration” by Public Media Alliance.
- September 2018: Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity and Forced Migration.
New blog via Media Diversity Institute - 14 September 2018: article about the “Invisible Children: Children’s Media, Diversity, and Forced Migration” Symposium
- April 2018: new blog via The Children’s Media Foundation
- December 2017: our review of CGMS 2017 on Public Media Alliance
- December 2017: review of our Pre-CGMS Summit workshop ‘Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration’ by Public Media Alliance
- October 2017: blog post Exploring Good PSM provision for young children in a diversified Europe by Professor Jeanette Steemers and Professor Naomi Sakr via Public Media Alliance
- October 2017: blog post Getting a Euro-Arab conversation going about young children’s media needs in an era of forced migration by Professor Jeanette Steemers via Medium
Our Partners

Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

University of Westminster
Principal Investigator
Jeanette Steemers
Professor of Culture, Media & Creative Industries
Investigators
Naomi Sakr
Professor at the University of Westminster
Christine Singer
Former Research Associate
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Department for Culture, Media, and Creative Industries
King’s College London, Strand
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