Refugee Families' Integration Into a New Culture Through Their Children's Digital Media Practices During COVID-19

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Abstract

This study explores the role of young refugee children’s everyday digital media practices in their families’ transition into a new culture during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. The study seeks to understand children’s engagements in their families’ transition process through their digital media practices. The aim is achieved by using interviews and workshops with volunteers working with refugee families and living journals method with refugee families. The findings reveal that young children perform the role of facilitators, agents and cultural brokers through their digital media practices during the transition process of their families into a new culture.

Authors

• Sabina Savadova, University of Edinburgh
  Presenting Author

• Valentina Andries, The University of Edinburgh
  Presenting Author