By: Amandine le Maire, 17th March 2022 On my return from fieldwork at Kakuma Refugee Camp, I began to translate the seven interviews that I had recorded.Converting sign language data to written English is a different process compared to transcribing spoken English into written English. This conversion from sign language to written English implicates translation between […]
Annelies Kusters, Amandine le Maire, Erin Moriarty (11 May 2021) Note: this video was produced for the course “International Connections and International Sign Among Deaf people”, developed by OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University and Gallaudet University. The term “mobility” signals a movement in a physical space which can be on a small scale as simply walking from one […]
By: Amandine le Maire, 7 April 2020 On Sunday 11th March 2018, I was talking with a group of deaf refugees. They told me they were going to a primary school; Baar el Naam, to an event set up by the Starkey Hearing Foundation to provide deaf refugees with free hearing aids. The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s […]
By: Amandine le Maire My first field work stint has just been completed! I have stayed for 4 months in Kakuma Refugee Camp. I’ve had so many intensive experiences and collected a lot of data through participant observation (laid down in field notes) and interviews, to bring to Scotland and to analyse before I go […]
Picture: Aerial view of Kakuma Refugee Camp Blog/vlog by: Amandine le Maire I am currently in Kakuma refugee camp and I’d like to share with you what happened in the last month since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. Together with interpreter Pascale I’ve been working for 2.5 weeks to get two permits: one permit to […]