British dentists aren’t happy about a plan to check child migrants’ ages by their teeth

Lost childhoods: age disputes in the UK asylum system

Children seeking asylum in the UK are regularly disbelieved about how old they are and can end up facing harmful, protracted disputes. The culture of disbelief so often criticised in the Home Office has now seeped into some local authorities.

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kamena-dorling/lost-childhoods-age-disputes-in-uk-asylum-system

Of course refugee children should face dental tests – we need to make sure we’re getting the ones we ordered

It makes you proud that we’re a Christian nation, acting on the words of Jesus when he said: ‘Let the suffering children come, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these – but not that bastard, he’s 19 if he’s a day’

►http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/refugee-children-calaid-jungle-dental-test-age-older-migrants-uk-mark

’When I fled to the UK, no one believed I was 13. Ten years on, nothing’s changed’

Gulwali Passarlay had to convince officials that he was still only a child when he arrived in the UK; now he sees children younger than he was facing the same treatment. He explains why it leaves him angry

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/21/when-i-fled-to-the-uk-no-one-believed-i-was-13-10-years-on-nothings-cha

Minderjährige Flüchtlinge waren doch schon erwachsen

Alterstests in Dänemark bestätigen den Verdacht in 74 Prozent der Fälle. Der Flüchtlingshilfeverband hat für die Schummeleien eine originelle Erklärung.

▻http://bazonline.ch/ausland/europa/minderjaehrige-fluechtlinge-waren-doch-schon-erwachsen/story/10213428
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