Abstract
ABSTRACT For several young male asylum seekers, migration to Europe was not only a necessity but also envisioned as a journey of social becoming – a means to claim maturity and assert social status. However, fulfilling these aspirations often depended on being formally categorized as minors – a classification that protected them from deportation and granted access to essential resources. Forever 17 examines how these young men navigate age classifications, often strategically claiming an age that aligns with their needs. This process queers temporalities of ageing and state-centred binary classifications, disrupting their normative associations with vulnerability. By closely analysing these practices and their queering of state-centred epistemologies, the book offers insights into the workings of state power – how it imposes its categories as self-evident truths – and the unintended, long-term consequences these practices often have for migrants’ lives.
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