Reimagining Digital Identity among Karen Refugees in Thailand presents findings from an 18-month ethnographic study conducted in Mae La refugee camp, examining how Karen refugees experience biometric identification systems used to access food, medical care, and other essential services. Based on interviews and participatory research with over 200 refugees and humanitarian stakeholders, the report reveals significant gaps in consent, information-sharing, and community involvement in the design of these systems, while foregrounding refugees' own visions (expressed through participatory art) of what a fair, dignified identification system could look like. The report offers concrete recommendations for humanitarian practitioners, funders, and refugee-led organisations, and calls for legal recognition and the right to work and mobility as the deeper need that digital ID systems alone cannot fulfil. 
 
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[Burmese - coming soon]