Reflecting on the experiences and embodied emotions of Syrian refugee women concerning Iris scanning as a highly advanced type of biometric technology first, I lay out the conditions in which the technology serves the needs of the refugees. Conversing with the current scholarships on biometric and refugee policies, I argue that Iris technology represents the state's interest and UNHCR despite its very ethical values to protect the rights and dignity of refugees, operates it. Thus the politics of compassion (Fassin 2012) is entangled with relations of domination and resistance and creates a moral dilemma for humanitarian practices. The sense of empathy for others embodied in humanitarian works conflates with a political and ethical constructed order that displays the coexistence of humanitarian responses with the subjugation of their people of concern. I take up some of the Syrian refugee women shared stories through which their feelings such as anger, sighs, laughter, sense of humor, and poetry exemplify the sites of struggles (Sara Ahmed 2007) and forms of asserting their political consciousness as willful/troubling subjects who are subjugated ostensibly through humanitarian acts. With Iris scanning, the emotional and utterly experience of women such as laughter and humor-- of being gazed at, I discuss the hierarchy of material and immaterial effects of biometric technology. In between the state control and politics of compassion in humanitarian work, both justifying the usage of Iris, I explicate the ways in which women act and are acted upon between the state policies and the modern transnational humanitarian regime.