Blockchain Based Secured Refugee Identity Management by Using the Assistance Smart Contract

Abstract

Refugee identity documentation is a sensitive process that a host country must go through to avoid unnecessary adversities. Flawless identity documentation is not only important to restrict unwanted population influx, but also to provide public and private services only to the rightful citizens of a country. The established refugee identity system process is faulty, inefficient, and resource intensive. The government spends an incredible amount of time and assets to document the refugees to incur a loss eventually in the inflow of illegal citizens. Our research is keen to change the current refugee identity documentation process. In this paper, we demonstrate a blockchain solution to enhance the effectiveness of the current identity management procedure. We clearly demonstrate the solution using a blockchain-based system where no refugee can become the host country's citizen. We also demonstrate the blockchain architecture along with the internal activities. We present some techniques used in a blockchain to enhance the system's data security and privacy.