eprintid: 10191801
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datestamp: 2024-05-17 11:25:33
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creators_name: Khan, S
creators_name: Rosen, Rachel
title: Racialising age in the UK's border regime: Making a case for the abolishment of age assessment
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
note: © 2024 Institute of Race Relations. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Processes for assessing the age of young unaccompanied migrants have been roundly critiqued, with new concerns in the UK being raised about the increasing use of ‘scientific’ approaches. In this article, we suggest that, taking everything into account, analyses do not go far enough, arguing that technical questions of how ‘best’ to assess age or the new incursion of biometric measurements can obscure the political question of what work age does in hostile border regimes. As a result, the underpinning logics of age assessment – an essentialisation of age, ‘race’ and borders – are not only left in place but further augmented. We demonstrate, through a careful curation of assessment reports (that operate through the assertion of truth claims about the body, childhood and time) how such reports draw on and reproduce multiple and intersecting racist imaginaries as they are synthesised with developmental logics around childhood. Age, we argue, is being weaponised in the service of post-racial fantasies in liberal democracies, rising ethnonationalism and state retrenchment from social support.
date: 2024-03-12
date_type: published
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063968241238603
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2094035
doi: 10.1177/03063968241238603
lyricists_name: Rosen, Rachel
lyricists_id: RROSE77
actors_name: Rosen, Rachel
actors_id: RROSE77
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pres_type: c-21
publication: Race & Class
event_title: Order(s) of Difference in Childhood and Education
event_location: Goethe University Frankfurt
citation:        Khan, S;    Rosen, Rachel;      (2024)    Racialising age in the UK's border regime: Making a case for the abolishment of age assessment.                   Race & Class        10.1177/03063968241238603 <https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241238603>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191801/1/rosen-khan-2024-racialising-age-in-the-uk-s-border-regime-a-case-for-abolishing-age-assessment.pdf