This paper describes a case study of a 60-year-old Peruvian refugee in some detail, focusing on the importance of building emotional resilience in a patient in Spanish in order to create a space for learning the English language - the patient did not speak English after 20 years of living in Britain. The work was carried out with an interpreter and some of the literature on working with interpreters is referred to. The paper also briefly outlines the refugee journey in broad terms, which is a journey from the culturally known to the culturally unknown. The question of how well the literature on resilience, which sits firmly within a Western developmental perspective, can be applied to refugees, most of whom come from group and family-based cultures dominated by ideas of honour and shame, is discussed. The paper also touches on the importance of the receiving country enabling or not, as the case may be, a transitional space for refugees who have lost their home and are seeking to find a safe haven in a strange culture.

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语言、政治和梦想：建立难民复原力的挑战

本文详细描述了一个 60 岁秘鲁难民的案例研究，重点是用西班牙语建立患者情绪韧性的重要性，以便为学习英语创造空间——患者不会说英语在英国生活了 20 年后。这项工作是由一名口译员完成的，并参考了一些关于与口译员一起工作的文献。本文还简要概括了难民之旅，这是从文化已知到文化未知的旅程。讨论了牢牢处于西方发展视角的关于复原力的文献如何适用于难民的问题，难民中的大多数来自以荣誉和耻辱观念为主的基于群体和家庭的文化。