Denmark’s oldest asylum centre has been in operation in the small town of Jelling since 1993. Here, over time, the institutions of the local community and the asylum centre have merged, spatially and socially. Today, a local daycare centre and the local after-school club operate on the premises of the asylum centre. Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday institutional neighbourliness between ‘asylum centre’ and ‘local community’ in this small Danish town, this tale from the field pertains to the overwhelming national media attention that hit the research case halfway through its term – and unpacks how public media collaboration came to alter the very local state of affairs that I was in the middle of studying. It is argued how, more than simply dissemination partners or collaborators, ‘the media’ instead turned into actual co-creators of the ethnographic field – and so of the concrete empirical findings and analyses.

丹麦最古老的庇护中心自 1993 年以来一直在小镇耶灵运作。随着时间的推移，当地社区机构和庇护中心在空间和社会上都已融合在一起。今天，当地的日托中心和当地的课后俱乐部在庇护中心内运作。基于对这个丹麦小镇的“庇护中心”和“当地社区”之间日常机构邻里关系的人种学研究，这个来自该领域的故事与压倒性的全国媒体关注有关，这些关注在其任期中途击中了研究案例 - 并解开了包装公共媒体合作如何改变我正在研究的当地事务。争论如何，不​​仅仅是传播伙伴或合作者，