In asylum procedures, authorities often doubt the claim of an unaccompanied young person to be a child. In Switzerland, in such cases, asylum seekers are made to undergo forensic age estimation to assess their “actual” age. This article studies this practice, drawing on interviews with the people who commission and conduct it. It elaborates on what triggers such “age disputes” and explains how age is being assessed. It continues by highlighting the difference between forensic and medical age estimation and how the use of FAE in a forensic environment racializes the children involved. In conclusion, this article reflects on the meaning of this racialization and what it, as well as the use of FAE, signifies about the interplay of racialized b...
According to European regulations and the legislations of individual member states, children who see...
According to European regulations and the legisla-tions of individual member states, children who se...
The increasing volume of, and subsequent complexities resulting from, migratory flows in the broader...
In asylum procedures, authorities often doubt the claim of an unaccompanied young person to be a chi...
The number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum has increased in recent years. Many unaccompanie...
With the events of 2015, commonly referred to as the refugee-situation, a light has been cast on var...
Nowadays, age estimation of living persons is a recognized discipline in the forensic panorama. Age ...
One of the more difficult problems facing forensic medicine is that of estimating the age of living...
Unprecedented changes in both the scale and the complexity of international migration have led to in...
Age-disputed unaccompanied minor asylum seekers (UMAs) are a group of undocumented young people who ...
This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under-researched occurrence of age discri...
Should radiological age assessment be considered as a means of alleviating thedoubts of a decision m...
In 2015, more than 35 000 unaccompanied children came to Sweden to seek asylum and only 12 % of them...
In 2015, about 33 568 unaccompanied children crossed the Swedish border and applied for asylum. Most...
This article explores medical assessments of the age of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Denma...
According to European regulations and the legislations of individual member states, children who see...
According to European regulations and the legisla-tions of individual member states, children who se...
The increasing volume of, and subsequent complexities resulting from, migratory flows in the broader...
In asylum procedures, authorities often doubt the claim of an unaccompanied young person to be a chi...
The number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum has increased in recent years. Many unaccompanie...
With the events of 2015, commonly referred to as the refugee-situation, a light has been cast on var...
Nowadays, age estimation of living persons is a recognized discipline in the forensic panorama. Age ...
One of the more difficult problems facing forensic medicine is that of estimating the age of living...
Unprecedented changes in both the scale and the complexity of international migration have led to in...
Age-disputed unaccompanied minor asylum seekers (UMAs) are a group of undocumented young people who ...
This special focus of Refuge highlights the widespread but under-researched occurrence of age discri...
Should radiological age assessment be considered as a means of alleviating thedoubts of a decision m...
In 2015, more than 35 000 unaccompanied children came to Sweden to seek asylum and only 12 % of them...
In 2015, about 33 568 unaccompanied children crossed the Swedish border and applied for asylum. Most...
This article explores medical assessments of the age of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Denma...
According to European regulations and the legislations of individual member states, children who see...
According to European regulations and the legisla-tions of individual member states, children who se...
The increasing volume of, and subsequent complexities resulting from, migratory flows in the broader...