This article presents a bibliometrical survey of an extensive corpus of research on interpreting in immigration, asylum and police settings. The article takes stock of past research and points towards questions for further research. The corpus of relevant literature is grouped according to the authors’ disciplinary background, and examined on the basis of a bibliometrical analysis with respect to the authors’ affiliation, type(s) of publication, date(s) of publication, methodology, and predominant paradigms and topics. The survey also investigates the different analytical (mainly discourse analytical) approaches that have been used to analyse these kind of interpreter- mediated interviews.