Translating Migration: Expectations – Conceptions – Strategies

Within the framework of a qualitative interview study, the expectations, conceptions and strategies were examined with which professional and voluntary, untrained actors met the challenges in the practice of communication in the context of social care and counselling of refugees that had developed during the peak phase of refugee migration to Germany in the summer of 2015. Different self-expectations as well as different ways of dealing with external expectations of the translation process are revealed. The individual conceptions of translation developed from these expectations will be discussed with reference to the conceptions that are usually considered controversial in theory and practice under the catchwords of cultural and language mediation.