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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, the article by Katja Lindskov Joergensen and\u00a0Kristin Bergtora Sandvik explores how techno-bureaucratic practices shape conceptions of international refugee protection. They do this by examining the evolving roles of results-based management (RBM), biometrics and cash-based interventions as \u2018accountability technologies\u2019 in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\u2019 international protection efforts. The article challenges the assumption that these technologies produce a seamless form of accountability that is equally attentive to donor requests and the protection needs of refugees. By focusing on how the constitution of these techniques as \u2018accountability solutions\u2019 shapes conceptions of the very meaning of protection (ie the problem to be addressed), they also show what dimensions of protection get omitted in this co-production of technical solutions and socio-political problems.<\/p>
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