Teeth and Truth? Age IDentities of Migrants in the Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2143123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Netz (University of Bayreuth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 290-305 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.2020.1736594 |
| OpenAlex | W3013880589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Bureaucracy · Ethnography · Identity (music · Information Age · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society · Sex work and related issues
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |