caroline Norma
Research Fellow
Global, Urban and Social Studies
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Dr Caroline Norma lectures in the Master of Translating and Interpreting degree in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.Caroline researches gender-related problems arising in the professional practice of interpreters working for migrant women accessing sexual assault, domestic violence, trafficking and child protection services in Victoria, Australia. Her book on the wartime Japanese ’comfort women’ will be published in 2015. Caroline’s research focuses generally on prostitution, pornography and trafficking in Australia, Japan and South Korea."
Research Interest
Translation and interpreting
Publications
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 Gender problems in the practice of professional interpreters assisting migrant women in Australia: A theoretical case for feminist education
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 The Japanese comfort women and sexual slavery during the China and Pacific Wars,
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 Abolitionism in the history of the transnational 'Justice for comfort women' movement in Japan and South Korea
