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Research review - Asylum seeking children and the process of age assessment: perils, pitfalls and best practice
Author: Dr Heaven Crawley, Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University and Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), BIOG
Publication Date: 26 May 2009
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Age disputes and the asylum system
Difficulties in assessing chronological age
Age assessment and the role of social services
Best practice in the assessment of age
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This research review sets out the evidence on the circumstances under which the age of separated asylum seeking children might come to be disputed and the perils and pitfalls of current procedures for the assessment of age.
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