Assessing the age of asylum applicants

Ethical aspects of medical age assessment in the asylum process

In Sweden, asylum seekers under 18 have full access to healthcare while those over 18 have more limited access. It seems reasonable that all ...

Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers

At 94 % specificity (proportion of 17-year-olds that the test indicates are no more than 17 years old), 6 %, i.e. five of the 17-year-olds, will ...

Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

Detriment of the Doubt: Age Assessment of. Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children · Foremost amongst the international instruments that guide age assessment ...

Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system

So are advocacy groups' claims that age-disputed UASCs are subjected to particular risks within the asylum system, such as detention (11 Million 2008; AI 2005; ...

The risks of age assessments for young asylum seekers - Coram

... asylum seekers having their age disputed and undergoing assessment. ... asylum applicants having their ages disputed. A number of recent ...

Age assessment of young asylum seekers | Request PDF

The age assessment methods based on psychosocial development suggest that getting to know a child over a period of time and observing how they react to a ...

Constructions of 'the ageless' asylum seekers: An analysis of how ...

Medical age assessments include x-rays of hand, carpus and, at times, teeth, and are perceived to be the most objective tools for assessing age ...

AGE ASSESSMENT IN EUROPE

» The use of medical examinations to determine the age of asylum applicants. » The benefit of the doubt during age assessment procedures iii. Remedies ...

A Sober Assessment of the Growing U.S. Asylum Backlog

There is a fairly even split between male and female asylum seekers. About 3 out of 10 are children under 18 years of age. The children who make ...

Identification | European Council on Refugees and Exiles

If that is the case, the asylum seeker is considered to be at least 20 years old according to some scientific experts. A recent literature review by the ...

Asylum age assessments: key advice for social workers

Any assessment should take into account relevant factors from the child's medical, family and social history, and the decision-maker should seek ...

Age assessment - Why? When? How? - YouTube

EASO defines age assessment as the process by which authorities seek to estimate the chronological age or range of age of a person in order ...

Age determination in asylum seekers: physicians should not be ...

The unfortunate geographical coincidences of incomplete birth registration rates, wars and poverty mean that refugees and asylum seekers often ...

Medical age assessment - Rättsmedicinalverket

If the Swedish Migration agency does not assess that an asylum seeker has made his or her age probable, and hence consider to regard the asylum ...

Age assessment of young asylum seekers - Wiley Online Library

The most common method used for skeletal age assessment is to analyse an X-ray of the hand and wrist in relation to the Greulich and Pyle (9) ...

When is a child not a child? Asylum, age disputes and the process of ...

Not all age disputed asylum seekers are able to access an assessment. Others are subjected to multiple assessments, with contradictory results. The. Home Office ...

Detriment of the doubt. Age assessment and age determination in ...

Age assessment is complex because asylum seekers are often not in the possession of identification documents. In this case, another method must ...

EASO. Age assessment practices in EU+ countries: updated findings

procedures. If, during the assessment of an asylum application, it appears that the age of the applicant should be assessed, the applicant is referred to child ...

Assessing age or assessing needs –

Assessing age or assessing needs –a literature review of age assessment of ... Solheim and Vonen, for example, described age assessment of asylum seekers in ...

INS Guidelines For Children's Asylum Claims

Asylum Officers should bear in mind that an applicant who is above the age of 18 at the time of the asylum interview, but whose claim is based on experiences ...