Collaborative Development of Children's Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration Flows: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue

该项目旨在让欧洲的广播公司、政策制定者、儿童权益团体和内容制作商意识到，成千上万从阿拉伯国家逃到欧洲的儿童和目睹他们抵达欧洲的欧洲出生的儿童都有着迫切的、前所未有的信息和娱乐需求。在过去的两年里，成千上万讲阿拉伯语的家庭，其中大部分来自叙利亚和伊拉克，在德国和瑞典定居，而数百名无人陪伴的难民儿童在这些国家和英国找到了家。虽然德国公共广播公司ZDF和ARD已对这一挑战作出反应，提供阿拉伯语成人新闻服务，并为其他项目提供阿拉伯语字幕，但为儿童提供的服务也需要注意。我们的项目将展示为幼儿制作的富有想象力的屏幕内容如何能够填补目前被迫移民流动各方儿童所能获得的令人担忧的空白，因为他们可能难以理解自己所处的新环境。该项目的目标是利用我们的研究成果：1。提醒欧洲屏幕内容从业者注意说阿拉伯语的年轻移民儿童（12岁以下）及其家庭的媒体需求、愿望和经历。2. 为监管、授权、资助、制作或评论儿童内容的欧洲文化看门人与在阿拉伯国家拥有儿童媒体经验的从业者之间的批判性反思和对话创造空间。3. 在欧洲利益相关者寻求确保向日益多样化的年轻受众提供多元化和高质量的内容时，帮助他们思考政策、制作倡议、公共话语和专业实践。4. 4 .确定适用于针对欧洲年轻移徙儿童的屏幕内容的管理、筹资、制作和宣传实践的有效因素。向欧洲和阿拉伯的主要利益相关者证明，联合国儿童权利公约（CRC）明确规定的儿童媒体权利是儿童未来作为公民参与的基础，并促使进一步研究屏幕媒体如何帮助移民儿童在新环境中发展他们的身份。在更广泛的公众中提高对流动儿童交流需求的认识。在欧洲的欧洲广播公司、制片人和非政府组织将受益于增进对讲阿拉伯语的年轻听众的了解的对话，使他们能够更有效地与生活和教育受到严重干扰的年幼儿童接触。他们将通过传授讲阿拉伯语的儿童使用媒体和期望的知识而受益，从而更好地了解儿童的需要。利用阿拉伯从业人员作为专家，打破了只朝一个方向进行研究的传统，是朝着建立新的欧洲阿拉伯儿童受众概念迈出的创新一步。该项目将为未来的合作创造更多的机会，并为交流研究创造新的空间。从2017年12月在曼彻斯特举行的全球儿童媒体峰会到在法国和德国举行的更密切的研讨会，阿拉伯与会者将通过参与一系列关于儿童屏幕媒体的国际对话而受益。本项目最重要的影响将是：*通过进一步传播我们的研究成果，改变新的利益相关者的观点*制片人、决策者、广播公司和宣传团体更好地了解移民儿童的媒体和通信需求*吸引年轻阿拉伯移民观众的政策建议；*向持份者提供有关知识交流的简报及报告。*提高阿拉伯语儿童媒体需求的可见度，并积极交流有效做法。

This project aims 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 fled to Europe from Arab countries and European-born children who have watched them arrive. Thousands of Arabic-speaking families, most of them from Syria and Iraq, have taken up residence in Germany and Sweden in the last two years, while hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children have found homes in these countries and the UK. Although German public broadcasters ZDF and ARD have responded to the challenge by providing adult news services in Arabic and Arabic subtitles for other items, provision for children also needs attention. Our project will show how imaginatively produced screen content for young children could fill worrying gaps in what is currently available to children on all sides of forced migration flows at a time when they may struggle to make sense of the new environment in which they find themselves.The project objectives are to use our research findings to: 1. Alert European screen content practitioners to the media needs, wants and experiences of young Arabic-speaking migrant children (under 12) 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.European broadcasters, producers and NGOs in Europe will benefit from dialogue which generates better understanding of young Arabic-speaking audiences, allowing them to engage more effectively with young children whose lives and education have been seriously disrupted. They will benefit through the transfer of knowledge about Arabic-speaking children's media use and expectations, leading to better understanding of children's needs. The use of Arab practitioners as experts represents an innovative step towards creating new European conceptualisations of the Arab child audience, breaking with the tradition of research travelling in one direction only. The project will create increased opportunities for future collaborations and new spaces for exchanging research. Arab participants will benefit through engagement in an international conversation about children's screen media at a range of events, from the Children's Global Media Summit in Manchester in December 2017 to more intimate workshops in France and Germany.The most significant impacts of this project will be: * Changed perspectives among new stakeholders, through further dissemination of our research findings * Better understanding of the media and communications needs of child migrants by producers, policy-makers, broadcasters and advocacy groups* Policy recommendations for engaging young Arab migrant audiences;* Reports on knowledge exchange to stakeholders through presentations and reports in appropriate outlets. * Raised visibility of Arabic-speaking children's media needs and active exchange of effective practice.