Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system

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This paper seeks to address the underlying issue of why age assessment is so politicised in the UK. How have ‘age-disputed persons’ become a salient political problem? Why does their age assessment remain contentious despite a number of policy amendments?

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 67. Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford

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