The UK Home Office's treatment of people claiming asylum, who have unknown dates of birth, and the relationship between the state and citizenship

许多在英国寻求庇护的人在抵达时并不知道自己的出生日期，因为他们逃离的国家不像英国那样严格或手段监控人们的出生，或者来自重视年龄的社区。这些人由英国内政部指定出生日期，这种做法对他们的待遇有相当大的影响。与此同时，确定出生日期对于将寻求庇护者纳入国家至关重要，因此在现代国家和公民身份的建立和运作中发挥着重要作用。本研究的目的是了解出生日期归属的实践，从而获得对国家性质以及国家与公民之间关系的原始见解，这两个主题在当代批判性社会和政治理论中受到强烈关注。

Many people seeking asylum in the UK do not know their dates of birth on arrival, due to fleeing from countries that do not monitor people's births with the same rigour or means as in the UK, or from communities which do place such importance on age. These people are assigned a date of birth by the UK Home Office, a practice that has considerable implications for the way they are treated. At the same time, the assignment of a date of birth is crucial in incorporating people seeking asylum into the state and so plays an important role in the establishment and functioning of modern statehood and citizenship. The purpose of this research will be to understand the practice of attribution of dates of birth and thus to gain an original insight into the nature of statehood and the relationship between the state and its citizens, both subjects of intense concern in contemporary critical social and political theory.