In many fields of professional practice and research, conversations can no longer be conducted in the first language of the respective participants. The increasing diversity of languages, of multi- and translingualism require the involvement of language mediators/interpreters. In the contexts of flight, asylum and migration, this interdisciplinary volume discusses different procedural strategies for overcoming linguistic as well as culturally conditioned communication barriers and highlights the emerging methodological and theoretical challenges for social counselling and therapy practice as well as for the practice of qualitative research.

The editors Prof. Dr. Angela Treiber holds the professorship for European Ethnology/Cultural Analysis at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research and teaching focuses include empirical research on religion and migration (history of theory and science).

PD Dr. Kerstin Kazzazi is a linguist at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and conducts research on multilingualism.

Dr. Marina Jaciuk is a freelance European ethnologist and lecturer at the professorship of European Ethnology/Cultural Analysis at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

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Prof. Dr. Angela Treiber holds the professorship for European Ethnology/Cultural Analysis at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research and teaching focuses include empirical research on religion and migration (history of theory and science).

PD Dr. Kerstin Kazzazi is a linguist at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and conducts research on multilingualism.

Dr. Marina Jaciuk is a freelance European ethnologist and lecturer at the professorship of European Ethnology/Cultural Analysis at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.