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Unaccompanied minors want above all to stick to what they perceive to be the request of the Other, be they representatives of the state or teachers. This presents difficulties for any work of psychic elaboration that would require lowering one’s guard. This article explains the system proposed by a so-called second-line transcultural hospital consultation for unaccompanied minors. The first meeting is structured in such a way as to allow the young person to free himself from the assignments that young migrants are subjected to and to once again speak on his own behalf. Then, psychotherapy will allow the young person to work on the psychic effects of the traumatic migration journey and on his history in a back-and-forth movement between two timeframes and two cultures, before engaging in the construction of an identity for the future.