Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minors in Asylum Law

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://rozkotova.cld.bz/CYIL-vol-15-2024/101/" target="_blank" >https://rozkotova.cld.bz/CYIL-vol-15-2024/101/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minors in Asylum Law

Original language description

A significant number of unaccompanied minors enter the European Union each year. Minors are treated more favourably than adult migrants under EU law because they are considered more vulnerable than other migrants. In many cases, there is no document proving their identity and age and it is not always clear whether the information about the age provided by the migrant is correct. Age assessment therefore plays a crucial role in ensuring the protection of unaccompanied minors. The principles relating to the protection of unaccompanied minors are very clearly set out in international, EU, and national law, but age assessments raise a number of difficult practical issues. The Article focuses on the legal regulation of the age assessment of migrants in the Czech Republic and Lithuania and the case law of national courts. A medical examination in the form of X-rays is used as the most common and reliable way of determining the age of a foreigner. In addition, the level of mental maturity must also be assessed. From the perspective of European asylum law, the problem of assessing age is one of the most underestimated practical issues that can hinder the proper application of child protection rules.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2026

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law

ISSN

1805-0565

e-ISSN

1805-0999

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

101-117

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85219053490