This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuses on (i) the reorientation of the asylum narrative from an authentic-experiential towards a more objectified formal-institutional account; (ii) the participants’ positioning work that indexes this reorientation process; and (iii) their fluctuating alignment of local-interactional and translocal-gatekeeping perspectives. In the discussion, we analyse the consultation in terms of competing legal and experiential voices and views on participant roles/responsibilities. We reflect on how this ambiguity of roles and ideologies relates to the constructed character of credibility, which reveals the importance of adequate legal assistance in this linguistically challenging context. (Legal consultations, asylum procedure, linguistic ethnography, narrative performance, credibility assessment)*

本研究考察了比利时法兰德斯的律师-寻求庇护者咨询中的互动管理实践和叙事共建。它利用语言-民族志实地调查，展示了阿富汗国际保护申请人、他的顾问和他的律师之间的协商案例研究。咨询的目的是让申请人为即将到来的庇护听证会作证做好准备。数据分析侧重于 (i) 将庇护叙事从真实体验转向更客观的正式制度描述；(ii) 参与者的定位工作为这一重新定位过程提供索引；(iii) 本地交互和跨本地守门观点的波动对齐。在讨论中，我们根据相互竞争的法律和经验声音以及对参与者角色/责任的看法来分析咨询。我们反思了这种角色和意识形态的模糊性如何与构建的可信度特征相关联，这揭示了在这种语言具有挑战性的背景下提供充分法律援助的重要性。（法律咨询、庇护程序、语言民族志、叙事表现、可信度评估）*