CHICAM

Home is where the heart is:
family relations of migrant children in six European countries

Policy Recommendations

Offering both family and children opportunities within which to develop social contacts with members of the local (mixed) community would assist social inclusion. This has implications for housing allocation, social development programmes etc.

Television broadcasting and other media forms and uses play an important part in social integration and cohesion. Young migrant audiences are globally sophisticated in their media uses while at the same time wanting to participate in national and local media. Media regulators and media providers need to ensure that they meet the needs of their multicultural audiences and users. This means that:

National and European media regulators need to ensure that mainstream media programming reflects the needs of Europe’s increasingly diverse population, both in image and content
Provision is needed to ensure that refugee and migrant children (and other socially excluded groups) have access to new media, and specific media content directed towards them.
In countries where there is less general uptake of new media in the home schools need to be able to offer adequate access so that national differences are less marked.

Back to Reports | Research Findings | Related Videos