Linguists with Respond Crisis Translation participated in interviewing and sharing their expertise in this research article titled “Held Incommunicado: The Failed Promise of Language Access in Immigration Detention.”

Anna, a self-taught Russian<>English interpreter, spent 2 years in immigration detention interpreting hundreds of asylum cases for other folks detained with her.Since her release, she continues to support asylum cases with Respond.

Since the beginning of the year, the French team has worked on 325 projects — that is more than 1 project per day! It also represents more than 30 % of all projects the French team has ever received since September 2019, when Respond was first created!

Respond Crisis Translation Arabic team feature in THE LINGUIST.
Miranda Moore explores the work of translators both inside and outside Gaza, and the difficulties they face.

Hundreds of you responded to our call to support our Gazan linguists who are doing life saving translation work for thousands of Palestinians fleeing genocide.
Because of you, we have been able to provide emergency stipends to ensure our Gazan translators ...

They have been forcibly displaced 5-10 times each; they are without electricity and reliable internet connection; they are living in tents and building fires to cook and boil contaminated water. All the while, they are supporting thousands of Gazans fleeing ...

Respond Crisis Translation has been doing a little bit of restructuring, and part of that has been moving many of our smaller East and Southeast Asian language teams from the LFR team to a new East Asia team, which combines those languages with our Chinese languages team. ...

WE ARE PROUD!

Since January 2024, Respond has helped 424 people directly (without the intermediation of another organisation). We never charge individuals, which means we use funds, resources from other organisations and a lot of voluntary work. The main cases have been related to asylum seekers or people trying to rebuild their lives in another country.