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Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AGE GROUPS ASYLUM SEEKERS POLICY MAKING Faced with rising numbers of undocumented asylum seekers claiming to be minors, age assessment is increasingly conceived as an integral part of asylum determination in Europe. This paper therefore 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?Why has A&M reached the Supreme Court? 2026-09-30T11:42:34Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33351492.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Negotiating_childhood_Age_assessment_in_the_UK_asylum_system/33351492 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0