In this second article about work at a refugee centre for unaccompanied minors in Berlin, the author discusses his encounter with Syrian and Afghani adolescents who were enrolled in the program. Issues around adaptation to a new culture are explored with attention to the dynamics of conformity and marginalization. The questions of what happens to adolescent refugees separated from their families, and how their identity formation is shaped by this burden is explored in relation to the author's meeting with a Syrian adolescent living in Berlin. To illustrate the long reach of a missing father who has been left behind, characters from Virgil's Aeneid are discussed to amplify heroic and spiritual aspects within father-son relationships. The interplay between needing help and allowing for resilience is explored as an important aspect of refugees' transitions, while also considering variables such as dependence and independence, foreign and familiar, being with or without family, and adjusting to the present and/whilst relating to the past; tensions between these alternatives can create various psychosocial challenges for adolescent refugees.

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“有时只是黑色”，第 2 部分：对青少年旅程的反思

在关于在柏林无人陪伴的未成年人难民中心工作的第二篇文章中，作者讨论了他与参加该计划的叙利亚和阿富汗青少年的遭遇。围绕适应新文化的问题探讨了顺从和边缘化的动态。与家人分离的青少年难民会发生什么，以及他们的身份形成如何受到这种负担的影响，这些问题与作者与居住在柏林的叙利亚青少年的会面有关。为了说明一个被遗弃的失踪父亲的长期影响，我们讨论了维吉尔的埃涅阿斯纪中的人物，以放大父子关系中的英雄和精神方面。需要帮助和允许复原力之间的相互作用被探索为难民过渡的一个重要方面，同时还考虑了诸如依赖和独立、陌生和熟悉、有没有家人以及适应现在和/同时与过去; 这些替代方案之间的紧张关系会给青少年难民带来各种心理社会挑战。