This article is a study of how the participation status of asylum-seeking children is interactively constructed in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings. We have undertaken a discourse analysis of 50 non-repair side-sequences from 26 hearings with Russian-speaking, asylum-seeking children in Sweden. A side-sequence is here defined as a monolingual sequence conducted in only one of the languages involved in the interviews. It involves the interpreter and only one of the primary interlocutors. In this article, four extracts are chosen for a micro-analysis in order to elucidate how interpreters can challenge asylum-seeking children’s participant statuses. We show that the right of the child to make his or her voice heard can be challenged, especially when the interpreters exclude, distort, discredit and guide the voices of the children, which is often done with the tacit approval of caseworkers.
Chilliak, Shayla, Sabrina Musacchio, Tina Montreuil & Shanna Williams
2024. Interviewing Asylum-Seeking Children: A Scoping Review of Research to Inform Best Practices. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 25:5 ► pp. 3680 ff.
Du, Biyu Jade
2024. How interpreting influences defendants’ participation: a discursive study of zero renditions and non-renditions in court interpreting. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2024:286 ► pp. 185 ff.
Pavesi, Nicoletta
2024. Working for and with Unaccompanied Migrant Minors: Methodological Suggestions from the Field. In Empowering Migrant Inclusion [UNIPA Springer Series, ], ► pp. 61 ff.
2024. Conflicting Expectations of Interpreters’ Roles in the Interaction between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors. The British Journal of Social Work 54:6 ► pp. 2396 ff.
Dayter, Daria, Miriam A. Locher & Thomas C. Messerli
2023. Pragmatics in Translation,
Rap, Stephanie E.
2023. “Can my mother come?” Asylum interviews with unaccompanied and separated children seeking asylum in the Netherlands. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 5
Wadensjö, Cecilia, Hanna Sofia Rehnberg & Zoe Nikolaidou
2023. Managing a discourse of reporting: the complex composing of an asylum narrative. Multilingua 42:2 ► pp. 191 ff.
Ondřej Molnár, Ondřej Klabal & Michal Kubánek
2022. Teaching Translation vs. Training Translators,
Çelikaksoy, Aycan & Eskil Wadensjö
2022. Child Migration. In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Dayter, Daria
2021. Dealing with interactionally risky speech acts in simultaneous interpreting: The case of self-praise. Journal of Pragmatics 174 ► pp. 28 ff.
2020. Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46:2 ► pp. 372 ff.
Song, Suzan J. & Peter Ventevogel
2020. Principles of the Mental Health Assessment of Refugee Children and Adolescents. In Child, Adolescent and Family Refugee Mental Health, ► pp. 69 ff.
van Os, E. C. C. (Carla), A. E. (Elianne) Zijlstra, E. J. (Erik) Knorth, W. J. (Wendy) Post & M. E. (Margrite) Kalverboer
2020. Finding Keys: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators for Refugee Children’s Disclosure of Their Life Stories. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 21:2 ► pp. 242 ff.
Hedlund, Daniel & Thomas Wimark
2019. Unaccompanied Children Claiming Asylum on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Journal of Refugee Studies 32:2 ► pp. 257 ff.
Niemants, Natacha
2019. Des enregistrements aux corpus : transcription et extraction de données d’interprétation en milieu médical. Meta 63:3 ► pp. 665 ff.
Majlesi, Ali Reza & Charlotta Plejert
2018. Embodiment in tests of cognitive functioning: A study of an interpreter-mediated dementia evaluation. Dementia 17:2 ► pp. 138 ff.
Kaukko, Mervi & Ulrika Wernesjö
2017. Belonging and participation in liminality: Unaccompanied children in Finland and Sweden. Childhood 24:1 ► pp. 7 ff.
Kjelaas, Irmelin & Ketil Eide
2015. Barnets stemme i tolkemedierte samtaler. Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern 92:2 ► pp. 109 ff.
Lindholm, Johanna, Ann-Christin Cederborg & Charlotte Alm
2015. Adolescent girls exploited in the sex trade: informativeness and evasiveness in investigative interviews. Police Practice and Research 16:3 ► pp. 197 ff.
2014. A Pressing Need for the Reform of Interpreting Service in Asylum Settings: A Case Study of Asylum Appeal Hearings in South Korea. Journal of Refugee Studies 27:1 ► pp. 62 ff.
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