Due to their mediating position between two antagonistic entities, brokers are often attributed a suspicious moral ambiguity, but also autonomy and creativity. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in two Slovak refugee support organisations, I examine these assumptions in relation to ʻintegration brokers’. Actors in Slovak refugee care services struggle with accusations of being partisan either to the refugees’ or state authorities’ side. By showing how refugee supporters switch between seemingly opposing moral paradigms, I problematise a popular understanding of the broker as a potent and autonomous agent and focus instead on the process of layering constraints that characterises the in-between.

由于经纪人在两个对立实体之间的调解作用，他们常常被赋予一种可疑的道德模棱两可的含义，而且还被赋予自治和创造力。在两个斯洛伐克难民支持组织的人种学田野调查的基础上，我研究了与“融合经纪人”有关的这些假设。斯洛伐克难民照料服务机构的行为者被指责是派遣到难民或国家当局一边的党派。通过展示难民支持者如何在看似对立的道德范式之间进行转换，我质疑了对经纪人作为有力和自主的经纪人的普遍理解，而将注意力集中在分层表征中间人的约束过程上。