Identity at the margins: Identification systems for refugees

This research report and the accompanying interactive graphic explores refugee registration and data management

Abstract

There are over 68 million displaced people in the world, and over 25 million refugees, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and as these individuals move across borders and register for legal recognition and vital services, they share sensitive personal information with a many different organisations, increasingly using digital identification technologies. Despite growing interest in the benefits new digital technologies can bring for both organisations and individuals, there has not yet been any in depth research to explore refugee registration and data management.

This research report and the accompanying interactive graphic explore these questions and point to directions to advance this work.

This research was funded throughthe Department for International Development’s Policy Research Fund

Citation

Paul Currion, Bryan Pon, and Emrys Schoemaker (2018) Identity at the Margins: refugee identity and data management. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Caribou Digital Publishing, 2018

Identity at the margins: Identification systems for refugees

Updates to this page

Published 31 December 2018