Emotional Challenges of Interpreters Working with Refugees in Türkiye

dc.contributor.authorUlaş, Aslı Polat
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:30:38Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:30:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the emotional distress experienced by the interpreters' meeting communication needs of Syrian refugees in Türkiye in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and legal and healthcare settings. The study presented in this paper also examines ethical challenges faced by the interpreters under emotionally difficult conditions and how they overcome this emotional distress. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 interpreters working in the aforementioned settings. The interview data were subjected to thematic analysis, and it was found that the majority of the interpreters were sometimes emotionally affected while interpreting traumatic stories. It was also found that interpreters may deviate from the prescribed behavioral standards when interpreting traumatic content even though they seemed aware of the relatively neutral interpreter role expected of them. Moreover, the interpreters experiencing emotional distress during their interpreting assignments were understood to develop their own methods of coping with it due to the lack of guidelines, relevant trainings and support mechanisms. © 2022 International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies. All rights reserved.
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Commission, EC
dc.identifier.endpage89
dc.identifier.issn1819-5644
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85151723972
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage64
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1690
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies
dc.relation.ispartofNew Voices in Translation Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectemotional distress
dc.subjectneutrality
dc.subjectrefugee interpreting
dc.subjecttrauma
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.titleEmotional Challenges of Interpreters Working with Refugees in Türkiye
dc.typeArticle

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