Since 2017, the United States has dramatically decreased its budget for refugee resettlement, increasing barriers to services that help refugees meet their basic needs. For us, as anthropologists, given the relationships that are cultivated through long-term ethnographic research, it is impossible to ignore the detrimental effects of national policy changes in a political environment that is unlikely to change due to our policy recommendations. In addition, the stated needs of the communities with which we work often require immediate solutions. How then, can we, as applied academic anthropologists, collaborate to immediately apply our methods and expertise to refugee resettlement in the United States? Despite the promise of a new administration, this is especially important within the context of the rapid national decrease in funding over the last four years that has resulted in the neglect of refugees in often discriminatory ways. Within this context, and in response to anthropologists’ recent criticism of urgent approaches to research during times of “crisis,” we examine the possibilities for and complications of what we are terming immediate anthropology.

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匆忙从事研究：即时人类学的案例和并发症

自 2017 年以来，美国大幅减少了难民安置预算，增加了帮助难民满足其基本需求的服务障碍。对我们作为人类学家而言，鉴于通过长期的民族志研究培养的关系，不可能忽视国家政策变化在政治环境中的不利影响，而政治环境由于我们的政策建议而不太可能改变。此外，与我们合作的社区的明确需求通常需要立即解决。那么，作为应用学术人类学家，我们如何合作，立即将我们的方法和专业知识应用于美国的难民安置？尽管有新政府的承诺，在过去四年全国资金迅速减少导致以歧视性方式忽视难民的背景下，这一点尤其重要。在这样的背景下，为了回应人类学家最近对“危机”时期紧急研究方法的批评，我们研究了我们所说的直接人类学的可能性和复杂性。