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Practice Report: A Report on the GDISC Interpreters' Pool Meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia 8-9 March 2006

Practice Report: A Report on the GDISC Interpreters' Pool Meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia 8-9... Practice Report A Report on the GDISC Interpreters’ Pool Meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia 8–9 March 2006 Lucy Williams Lecturer, MASC, University of Kent The meeting was organised by GDISC – the General Director’s Immigration Conference Service – which is an EU Steering group focusing on initiatives to promote practical co-operation on immigration matters between EU members, the accession states and candidate states. The Bratislava meeting was planned to disseminate the findings of a pilot project carried out by immigration offices in Slovakia and The Netherlands which considered the practicality of sharing interpreting resources across European states. At an earlier GDISC Conference in Rotterdam in July 2004, Slovakia identified lack of interpreters as a major problem affecting the accession states’ capacity to process asylum applicants, and, as part of the framework of practical co-operation, the Interpreters’ Pool Project 2005 was set up. Ten test asylum interviews were conducted in which the decision maker and the asylum applicant remained in Slovakia while the asylum seeker’s interpreter was in The Netherlands (see Figure 1, below). The process involves a complex exchange of language as the Slovak-speaking immigration official in Slovakia uses a Slovak/Dutch interpreter who then passes the message to a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care Pier Professional

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Practice Report A Report on the GDISC Interpreters’ Pool Meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia 8–9 March 2006 Lucy Williams Lecturer, MASC, University of Kent The meeting was organised by GDISC – the General Director’s Immigration Conference Service – which is an EU Steering group focusing on initiatives to promote practical co-operation on immigration matters between EU members, the accession states and candidate states. The Bratislava meeting was planned to disseminate the findings of a pilot project carried out by immigration offices in Slovakia and The Netherlands which considered the practicality of sharing interpreting resources across European states. At an earlier GDISC Conference in Rotterdam in July 2004, Slovakia identified lack of interpreters as a major problem affecting the accession states’ capacity to process asylum applicants, and, as part of the framework of practical co-operation, the Interpreters’ Pool Project 2005 was set up. Ten test asylum interviews were conducted in which the decision maker and the asylum applicant remained in Slovakia while the asylum seeker’s interpreter was in The Netherlands (see Figure 1, below). The process involves a complex exchange of language as the Slovak-speaking immigration official in Slovakia uses a Slovak/Dutch interpreter who then passes the message to a

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