This paper focuses on the financialization of refugee humanitarianism in Greece, bringing attention to the Cash Assistance Programme, which is the first European Union–funded project in Europe providing financial support to asylum seekers, coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This program consists of the delivery and monthly recharge of prepaid debit cards to asylum seekers inside hotspots and refugee camps. The article deals with three aspects. First, it analyzes the political technologies of government that this system enforces, bringing attention to the modes for governing refugee populations in transit. Second, it considers the data circulation activities that are connected to it, analyzing what I call the circuits of financial humanitarianism and explaining in detail how data is shared between the different actors involved (banks, IGOs, Greek authorities, and NGOs). Third, it explores the specific effects of subjectivation produced by this temporary and exclusionary mechanism of financial support, together with the forms of value extraction that stem from it. The paper argues that far from generating financial inclusion, techniques of financialization of humanitarianism should be situated among measures for regaining control over unruly movements, predicated upon exclusionary and temporary mechanisms of government.

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难民的借记卡，主体性和数据回路：希腊移民实验室中的金融人道主义

本文着重于希腊难民人道主义的金融化，提请人们注意现金援助计划，这是由欧洲联盟资助的第一个在欧洲项目，由联合国难民事务高级专员协调，为寻求庇护者提供财政支持。该方案包括向热点地区和难民营内的寻求庇护者交付和每月充值预付借记卡。本文涉及三个方面。首先，它分析了该系统执行的政府的政治技术，并提请人们注意管理过境难民的方式。其次，它考虑了与其相关的数据流通活动，分析了我所说的金融人道主义回路，并详细解释了所涉及的不同参与者（银行，政府间组织，希腊当局和非政府组织）之间如何共享数据。第三，它探讨了这种暂时性和排他性财务支持机制所产生的主观想象的具体效果，以及由此产生的价值提取形式。该论文认为，人道主义的金融化技术绝不能产生金融包容性，而应以重新建立对不守规矩运动的控制为手段，这些措施应以政府的排他性和临时性机制为基础。以及由此产生的价值提取形式。该论文认为，人道主义的金融化技术绝不能产生金融包容性，而应以重新建立对不守规矩运动的控制为手段，其依据是政府的排他性和临时性机制。以及由此产生的价值提取形式。该论文认为，人道主义的金融化技术绝不能产生金融包容性，而应以重新建立对不守规矩运动的控制为手段，这些措施应以政府的排他性和临时性机制为基础。