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-a-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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富有同情心的镇压基础设施：在Kakuma难民营中进行生物识别

我的文章重点介绍了一个生物识别身份管理系统（BIMS）的试点，用于在肯尼亚Turkana县的Kakuma难民营中分发实物援助，以检验难民对生物识别系统的看法。它探讨了索马里难民如何反思BIMS对他们与人道组织，肯尼亚国家和其他难民的关系所产生的影响，并了解了管理和维持有需要的人口所承担的人道理性。因此，它认为，诸如生物识别技术之类的生物政治技术突显并加剧了难民在照料和监视之间的紧张关系，因为在特定的社会政治环境中存在反叙事，从而挑战了生物识别基础设施背后的官方动机。通过大量的解释工作，