Resettlement Agency: Housing

Introductory Summary: A newly arrived family from El Salvador is meeting with their housing advocate at a local resettlement agency.

Disclaimer:: This text is an original work of fiction based on real scenarios. Any similarities between people or places are purely coincidental.

Participants

Contributors

Author

Romina Espinosa

Co-Author

Ana Soler

Editors

Devin Gilbert

Yohana Imperio

Allison deFreese

Audio Engineer

Omar Mendoza

Voice Actors

Full Summary: A newly arrived family from El Salvador is meeting with their housing advocate at a local resettlement agency. They sit down in a meeting room and voice two concerns: (1) the smell of marijuana in their apartment complex and (2) an eight-year-old boy who touched the breast of one of their daughters. The family is not happy at all with their apartment in a populous neighborhood and want to find an alternative place.

Main Challenges: At the end of the interpreted meeting, the interpreter faces an ethical challenge. She quickly thinks of a way to resolve the ethical dilemma by being polite yet establishing a professional boundary.

Key Terminology and Vocabulary

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Supplementary Resources: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Migrants (Amnesty International); What is Asylum? (UNHCR); Obtaining Asylum in the US (USCIS); Juliana Mosley’s Cultural Humility (TEDx); Pre-Session Definition and Samples (National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages); CIFE: An Interpreter’s Tool (Multnomah County); Ryohei Onishi’s We are All Interpreters (TEDx Kobe); US Resettlement Facts (UNHCR)

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