Paper details

Paper authors	Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
In panel on	Responsible Innovation: One Step Forward-Two Steps Back
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Better management and new technological solutions are increasingly portrayed as the way to improve refugee protection and enhance the accountability of humanitarian actors. Taking concepts of legibility, quantification and co-production as the point of departure, this paper thinks about how techno-bureaucratic practices shape conceptions of international refugee protection. We do this by examining the evolving roles of results-based management (RBM), biometrics and cash-based interventions as ‘accountability technologies’ in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ international protection efforts. The paper particularly considers the potential systemic shift from legal to social 'proxy-means testing' data-driven protection frameworks.

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