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Léa Macias, « La mise en nombre des réfugiés syriens », Socio-anthropologie, ID : 10.4000/socio-anthropologie.5664
The digitalization of refugees and the humanitarian response can be better understood with the process of data collection in refugee camps. The production of humanitarian knowledge, through numbers participates in technical management mode of the humanitarian space of the camp. This research provides an international framework for this issue by explaining how information has become a precondition for any humanitarian response; and then studying a new paradigm that links a good humanitarian response to an informative answer in figures. The camp thus becomes a space for the production of humanitarian knowledge that has been through the datafication and numbering of refugees and their needs. Focusing on the measurement of humanitarian action, it is a matter of going beyond the questioning of the reliability of the information to explore the performative effects on the camp, the humanitarian workers who have been operating there and the refugees who have been living there.