Banca de DEFESA: Leticia de Souza Sa

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Leticia de Souza Sa
DATE: 19/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Teams
TITLE:

OVERCOMING LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES:

Towards institutional policies of accessibility, translation, and interpretation in the Federal Public Defenders' Office

KEY WORDS:

translation and interpretation studies; community interpreting; linguistic rights; linguistic and translation policies; Defensoria Pública da União

PAGES: 146
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Recent migratory flows to Brazil and the need to redress historical linguistic repression require the State to take a new look at the social needs of individuals who do not speak the official language of the country. The implementation of a language and translation policy is also a condition for access by the migrant, indigenous and deaf population to public service delivery systems. In this sense, charged with the mission of guaranteeing human rights, the Public Defender of the Union (DPU) created the Translation

Coordination (CTRAD), in partnership with the University of Brasilia (UnB), to expand and improve the legal assistance services provided to immigrants in Brazil. Initially responsible for the translation of procedural documents, the CTRAD, faced with the exponential increase in the demands of people who are not fluent in Portuguese, has been expanding its activities with the creation of a linguistic mediation service between the public agent and the person requesting the right. The growth in demands related to translation and interpretation reveals the need to institutionalise translation policies, mostly implemented by civil society. To support these actions, we sought to establish a diagnosis of the sociolinguistic situation of the DPU in this context, by collecting data from the service sectors of the various units of the DPU, interpreters with experience in public service and institutional instruments. Questionnaires were applied to the units and the interpreters to find out about the difficulties and linguistic needs in the places of service, and the institutional instruments were analysed in search of instructions for serving people who speak other languages. The results reveal, on the one hand, the linguistic challenges faced according to the types of interaction between rights claimants and public agents and, on the other hand, the great helplessness of the institutions in the face of these challenges. Based on them, we suggest actions to be implemented by the DPU that reduce this institutional vacuum in favour of access to justice.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interna - 1772567 - ALBA ELENA ESCALANTE ALVAREZ
Interno - 3227842 - JULIO CESAR NEVES MONTEIRO
Presidente - 2192560 - SABINE GOROVITZ
Externo à Instituição - SILVANA AGUIAR DOS SANTOS - UFSC