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Netz, Sabine:
Teeth and Truth? Age IDentities of migrants in the making.
In: Ethnos : Journal of Anthropology.
Bd. 87
(2022)
Heft 2
.
- S. 290-305.
ISSN 1469-588X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1736594
Abstract
Although the birth date on state documents is proposed as an unambiguous marker of IDentity, the age assessment of migrants into Germany reveals a contested and black-boxed practice behind the seemingly neutral numbers. This is a practice of contested bureaucratic and scientific decision-making turned into a stable truth. This article examines this process by drawing on ethnographic research into forensic practices assessing migrants’ ages in Hamburg, Germany. Ultimately, a migrant’s assessed age has crucial consequences for their identity, rights and possibilities. Through a study of the technologies of assessment, this paper shows that the making of age IDentity is relational and ambiguous, and not a truth that is fixed in one’s body as ‘biological age’. This challenges one of the promises of biometrics, an ability to measure ‘the body’ objectively. Rather, the paper proposes that what that body precisely is is an outcome of a specific practice.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | Forensic age estimations; age assessments; unaccompanied minor refugees; migration; biometrics |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste |
| Eingestellt am: | 30 Jun 2020 08:35 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 07 Nov 2023 09:41 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/55646 |