Infrastructure of compassionate repression: making sense of biometrics in Kakuma refugee camp
Infrastructure of compassionate repression: making sense of biometrics in Kakuma refugee camp
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同情镇压的基础设施:理解卡库马难民营的生物识别技术
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10.1080/02681102.2020.1816881
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发表时间:
2020
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4.8
通讯作者:
Iazzolino G
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作者:
Iazzolino G
My article focuses on the pilot of a Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) for the distribution on in-kind aid in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya’s Turkana county, to examine the perception of biometric systems of verification by refugees. It explores how Somali refugees reflect on the implications of BIMS for their relations vis-à-vis humanitarian organizations, the Kenya state and other refugees, making sense of the humanitarian rationality tasked with both managing and policing populations in need. It thus argues that biopolitical technologies such as biometrics highlight, and heighten, the tension between care and surveillance as refugees challenge the official motives behind biometric infrastructures with counter-narratives situated in a specific socio-political milieu. Through an intense interpretative labor, which I captured in interviews and focus group discussions in Kakuma and Eastleigh, Nairobi, refugees open a crack in the apolitical veneer of humanitarianism, revealing, and challenging, the politics of biometrics.
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