As part of research in human and social sciences, collecting and transcribing the stories of migrants in a comprehensive approach can produce an erasure of their voices, even if the opposite is the target. How can the researcher translate voices through writing? Is it possible to translate those voices? If there is an attempt to do so, how to transcribe them, from volatile orality to scriptural material? Based on a quote from Georges Steiner – taken from Didier Fassin's book – which breaks down the meaning of translation, the article will draw on research experiences to reflect on the status of this rewriting and the possible ways that 'eople have to (re)appropriate them. Writing your own voice would be one of the ways to authorize, each one still has to find or create these spaces of possibilities. It is sometimes the researcher who is surprised by the paths taken by the speakers to achieve this.