Drawing on a support program for foreign women, this article discusses anthropological collaboration with local services for migrants in one of the Italian regions most advanced in terms of multicultural policies. Often treated as a pre-given good, collaborative work is here revealed as a site for exploring ways of practicing anthropology with professionals engaged in migrant reception services. On one hand, I examine the potential of collaborative anthropology to interrogate workers’ taken-for-granted assumptions as well as the moral implications and institutional constraints that shape their ambiguous encounters with female “Others,” perceived as both passive victims and manipulative users. On the other hand, I highlight the meaningful position the anthropologist gains to capture the multi-faceted worlds that social actors navigate in their efforts to negotiate blurred rights in a shifting, contested arena. Moving beyond a narrow conception of applied work, I conclude by casting collaborative anthropology as a call for renewed reflection on political engagement in social policies but also as a challenging opportunity for further investigations of local reception services.

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共同导航移民接待服务：在意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅大区开展合作人类学实践

本文利用针对外国妇女的支持计划，讨论了在意大利多元文化政策方面最先进的地区之一，人类学与当地移民服务机构的合作。通常被视为一种预先给定的善，这里揭示的协作工作是一个与从事移民接待服务的专业人士探索人类学实践方式的场所。一方面，我研究了协作人类学在询问工人被视为理所当然的假设的潜力，以及塑造他们与被视为被动受害者和操纵用户的女性“他人”模棱两可的遭遇的道德含义和制度限制。另一方面，我强调了人类学家获得的有意义的位置，以捕捉社会行为者在不断变化的、有争议的舞台上努力谈判模糊权利的多方面世界。超越应用工作的狭隘概念，我将协作人类学作为对社会政策中政治参与的重新思考的呼吁，同时也是对当地接待服务进行进一步调查的具有挑战性的机会。