This chapter examines the traces of manipulated interpreting at the Rohingya camps during the donor delegates’ visits. This study gathered the lived experience of seven ad hoc and professional interpreters to understand the reasons for manipulation that occurred during interpreting tasks between the Rohingya and funding agencies’ representatives. A reflective thematic analysis of the interview data revealed that the interpreters deliberately changed the meaning and fabricated the facts during interpreting tasks to satisfy the funding agencies’ foreign delegates. The interpreters also acknowledged that the project personnel priorly instructed them not to interpret any information that was deemed to be unfavourable to the donor delegates. Moreover, they were priorly instructed to screen the answers of the Rohingya during the interpreting tasks if the conversations went against the project’s reputation. This study infers that such manipulated interpreting might have a detrimental effect on different phases of the project, including planning, monitoring, and evaluation, which nonetheless intensifies the vulnerability of this displaced community. To deplete the possibility of manipulative interpreting, this study recommends that pertinent entities and agencies recruit more professional interpreters, arrange interpreting-related pieces of training, and scrutinise interpreting-based reports. It is envisaged that these initiatives might curb the possibility of manipulation, ensuring the fidelity of the interpreting tasks. It is therefore expected that this study would be beneficial for both parties—the fund provides and the vulnerable Rohingya.

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Manipulated Interpreting with Donor Delegates at Rohingya Refugee Camps

  • Mohammad Harun Or Rashid

摘要

This chapter examines the traces of manipulated interpreting at the Rohingya camps during the donor delegates’ visits. This study gathered the lived experience of seven ad hoc and professional interpreters to understand the reasons for manipulation that occurred during interpreting tasks between the Rohingya and funding agencies’ representatives. A reflective thematic analysis of the interview data revealed that the interpreters deliberately changed the meaning and fabricated the facts during interpreting tasks to satisfy the funding agencies’ foreign delegates. The interpreters also acknowledged that the project personnel priorly instructed them not to interpret any information that was deemed to be unfavourable to the donor delegates. Moreover, they were priorly instructed to screen the answers of the Rohingya during the interpreting tasks if the conversations went against the project’s reputation. This study infers that such manipulated interpreting might have a detrimental effect on different phases of the project, including planning, monitoring, and evaluation, which nonetheless intensifies the vulnerability of this displaced community. To deplete the possibility of manipulative interpreting, this study recommends that pertinent entities and agencies recruit more professional interpreters, arrange interpreting-related pieces of training, and scrutinise interpreting-based reports. It is envisaged that these initiatives might curb the possibility of manipulation, ensuring the fidelity of the interpreting tasks. It is therefore expected that this study would be beneficial for both parties—the fund provides and the vulnerable Rohingya.