Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Changing Spaces: Globalization, Media, Identity and Childhood We are the World? Children and Migration Between the Global and the Local: Young People Media and Migration Going Global: Childhood in the Age of Global Media Finding a Place: Migrant Children Using Media Making Migrant Identities: Television in Children's Everyday Lives Speaking for Themselves? Researching Youth Media Production Picture Me In: Migrant Children as Media Makers Rapping All Over the World: Music, Media and Intercultural Communication Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author

LIESBETH DE BLOCK is a Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, and a research officer in the Centre for the Study of Children Youth and Media. Her research interests are in the role that media play in children's experiences of migration and settling. Previously she worked in London schools, supporting refugee children. DAVID BUCKINGHAM is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media (www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk). His

Reviews

'This book provides a critical review of research and debate in the overlapping fields of media, globalization, migration, and childhood.' - Journal of Consumer Policy 'What makes this book stand out from the crowd of other studies on media use is that it explores and analyses the experiences of immigrant children and presents these in a coherent form for the first time. The book's great strength is that it brings new evidence into familiar, and all too often abstract, discussions about culture and identity.' - European Journal of Communication