The Master’s thesis aims to explore the right to interpretation in the asylum procedure in the context of international law, particularly as it relates to procedural guarantees in terms of the right to information, the right to be heard, the right to the free assistance of an interpreter, and the right to use a language that the person understands. It focuses on five aspects, namely the social power of law and language, the asylum procedure in international law, the specifics of interpreting in asylum procedures, the right to interpretation as defined in certain key sources of international and EU law, and an overview of the relevant caselaw.
This issue is especially relevant today in the light of the new challenges brought on by mass migration, putting the quality of interpretation services as well the human rights of the individual to the test.
The hypothesis of this thesis is that the existing regulatory framework of international law on the right to interpretation in the asylum procedure is relatively loose, which leads to ambiguities as to what this important procedural guarantee encompasses, thus putting the asylum seeker in an uncertain position.
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