'No one gives you a chance to say what you are thinking': finding space for children's agency in the UK asylum system
'No one gives you a chance to say what you are thinking': finding space for children's agency in the UK asylum system
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00917.x
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2010-06-01
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2.2
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Crawley, Heaven
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Crawley, Heaven
利用与失散儿童寻求庇护在英国进行的研究，本文探讨了儿童的政治身份和经验已概念化的程序，以确定谁是-和不-需要根据国际难民法的保护的方式。该文件特别侧重于失散儿童在庇护面谈期间的经历。据认为，进行面谈不仅表明在了解与家人分离的寻求庇护儿童的经历方面基本上缺乏人性和关怀，而且还表明“童年”的一种特殊概念，这种概念损害了儿童充分表达其经历和确保获得其有权得到的保护的能力。这种做法的后果是，与家人分离的寻求庇护儿童获得难民地位的可能性大大低于成年人，而且表达政治观点和意愿的儿童可能根本不被视为儿童。
Drawing on research undertaken with separated children seeking asylum in the UK, this paper explores the ways in which children's political identities and experiences have been conceptualised in procedures for determining who is - and is not - in need of protection under international refugee law. The paper focuses in particular on the experiences of separated children during the asylum interview. It is suggested that the conduct of the interview not only indicates a basic lack of humanity and care in engaging with the experiences of separated asylum-seeking children, but also a particular conceptualisation of 'childhood' that undermines the ability of children to fully articulate their experiences and to secure access to the protection to which they are entitled. The consequence of this approach is not only that separated asylum-seeking children are significantly less likely than adults to be granted refugee status, but that children who express political views and agency may not be considered to be children at all.