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ORTEGA VELAZQUEZ, Elisa. Child and adolescent asylum seekers in Mexico: a critique of the defects surrounding the procedure for recognizing refugee status. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2018, vol.51, n.152, pp.707-739.  Epub 30-Abr-2020. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2018.152.12923.

This article has two objectives. On the one hand, to systematize and, in this way, highlight the legal procedure that children and adolescents (CAs) have to face when they decide to seek asylum in Mexico, given the opacity and the difficulties that are inherent in said process. And, on the other hand, identify and analyze the most obvious obstacles that the specific legal form of this procedure creates in its daily practice so as to illuminate, from a critical perspective, the actual situation of the right of children/(CAs) to seek and receive asylum in Mexico.

To this end, first, this article studies the procedure that must be followed to seek and receive asylum in Mexico; second, it examines the practical and legal obstacles faced by children and adolescents who initiate this tortuous procedure.

Palavras-chave : Asylum; Children; Mexico; Due Process; Human Rights.