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The European refugee crisis and biological age: is it right to use skeletal maturity as an estimate of chronological age?

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posted on 2016-03-22, 11:21 authored by Noel Cameron
The absence of certified age documentation carried by many refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe has led to countries using biological variables, usually skeletal maturity, to determine chronological age under the rationale that biological maturity is either closely related to chronological age or that it is related closely enough for the small discrepancy or misclassification of those younger than 18 years to be acceptable. However, the discrepancy, no matter how small, has life changing consequences, because it results in the loss of any access to the rights and privileges afforded to children including housing and foster care and may lead to repatriation and continued persecution.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Annals of Human Biology

Pages

1 - 2

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CAMERON, C., 2016. The European refugee crisis and biological age: is it right to use skeletal maturity as an estimate of chronological age? Annals of Human Biology, DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2016.1145738.

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© Taylor and Francis

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016

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This document is Closed Access.

ISSN

0301-4460

eISSN

1464-5033

Language

  • en

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