Using Interpreters: Can Black Feminist Thought and Anti-Oppressive Principles Be used to Improve Information Gathering and Social Service Efficacy in Populations That Are Culturally Diverse?
- Sheffield University/UK.
- Masinde Muliro University/Kenya.
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Globalization and other homogenizing developments, such as the free movement of citizens within the European Union, have brought people together from all corners of the earth, thereby increasing the need for skilled and culturally aware interpreters.In this paper, the authors reflect on their own experiences working with interpreters?both in research and in connection with the delivery of social services to marginalised women. When dealing with women of colour, the authors found, it is important to take into account principles defined by Black feminist writers and Anti-Oppressive Principles (AOP) designed to alleviate unequal, unfair, and otherwise oppressive conditions. Wherewomen of colour are concerned, the authors further advocate using women from their cultures rather than men or women from outside their cultureto interpret subjects? experiences. Using women interpreters from the same culture, the authors find, may increase the accuracy of research data and its interpretation and minimizes power inequalities associated with differences in gender, culture, and class. (160 words).
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