
Area
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Department
Social and Human Sciences
Email:
nahikari.irastorza@deusto.esNahikari Irastorza is a lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto and a researcher affiliated with the Padre Arrupe Institute of Human Rights at the same university. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada and as a senior researcher at Malmö University, with funding from programmes such as Marie Curie (2011–2014) and Willy Brandt (2016–2021). She teaches at the International Relations program and her research focuses on issues related to international migration and migrants’ experiences in receiving countries. She has worked on several European Union–funded projects on refugees’ experiences in receiving societies, including Forced Migration and Refugee-Host Community Solidarity (FOCUS, 2019–2022) and Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective (Whole-COMM, 2021–2024). She is currently the principal investigator of the project Migrant Women in the Swedish Labour Market, funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE, 2025–2027), which analyses the labour market experiences of Syrian and Ukrainian refugee women in Sweden. Since 2022, she has been Co–Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
Articles in Scientific Journals
Gaza and the Right to Have Rights / Nordic Journal of Migration Studies
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 1799-649X / Volume: 14 / Journal number: 1 / Date: 2024
From State-Controlled to Free Migration: The Income Effects of the 2008 Swedish Labour-Migration Reform / Migration Studies.
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 2049-5838 / Volume: 11 / Journal number: 4 / Date: 2023
What Can We Learn from the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees? / Nordic Journal of Migration Studies
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 1799-649X / Volume: 12 / Journal number: 3 / Date: 2022
Melting pot or salad bowl? An overview of mixed marriages and mixed children in Sweden / Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 2325-4521 / Volume: 1 / Journal number: 2 / Date: 2022
Integration policy and refugees? economic performance: Evidence from Sweden?s 2010 reform of the introduction programme / International Migration
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 0020-7985 / Volume: 59 / Date: 2021
Skilled Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: An Analysis of Employment, Income and Occupational Status / Sustainability
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNAR: 2071-1050 / Volume: 13 / Journal number: 6 / Date: 2021
Articles Published Online
Understanding public opinions towards integration
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://www.delmi.se/en/publications/policy-brief-2024-9-understanding-public-opinions-towards-integ / Date: 2024
How to foster social cohesion and positive attitudes towards the integration of migrants at the local level? Key challenges and policy options
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://whole-comm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/D6.3-Policy-brief-1.pdf / Date: 2024
Public Opinions and Policy Impact on Integration and Social Cohesion: Policy Brief
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://whole-comm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/D6.2-Comparative-working-paper_final_2.pdf / Date: 2024
Data Inventory on Integration Policies, Outcomes, Public Perceptions and Social Cohesion at National and Sub-national Levels
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://whole-comm.eu/working-papers/data-inventory-on-integration-policies-perceptions-and-cohesion / Date: 2023
Understanding the gap between refugee integration policies and experiences of integration: Results from two EU-funded projects, FOCUS and NIEM
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://www.delmi.se/media/fordhrpr/delmi-policy-brief-2023_1-eng-web.pdf / Date: 2023
From State-Controlled to Free Migration: The Income Effects of the 2008 Swedish Labour-Migration Reform
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://iilme-research.org/from-state-controlled-to-free-migration-unintended-consequences/ / Date: 2023
Challenges in integration research: FOCUS Living Well Together Forum 3
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://focus-refugees.eu/wp-content/uploads/focus_brief-7_forum-iii-research_jan2022.pdf / Date: 2022
Cross-site analysis: FOCUS Deliverable 4.3
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://focus-refugees.eu/wp-content/uploads/FOCUS_D4.3-Cross-site-analysis.pdf / Date: 2022
Survey of arriving and receiving communities
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
URL: https://focus-refugees.eu/wp-content/uploads/D4.1_Survey-or-Arriving-and-Receiving-Communities.pdf / Date: 2021
Chapters of Books
Intercultural and Mixed Race Relationships in Sweden / The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial Relationships and Mental Health
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNCO: 9781003385547 / Start page: 305 / End page: 315 / Date: 2025
Short-term employment of EU workers: evidence from Sweden / Moving under the radar: Ongoing challenges for short-term intra-EU mobility
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNCO: 978-2-87452-741-8 / Start page: 143 / End page: 160 / Date: 2025
Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden / Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
ISBNCO: 978-3-031-19152-7 / Date: 2023
The Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants in OECD Countries: An Overview / The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
Date: 2021
Immigrant women in the Swedish labour market: What can we learn from the experiences of Ukrainians and Syrians
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari; La Spina, Encarnación; López Belloso, María; Urrutia Asua, Gorka
Abstract: Malmö University / Start date: 2025/09/01 / End date: 2027/12/31
Diversidad religiosa y convivencia democrática: análisis y propuestas para las políticas municipales
Ruiz Vieytez, Eduardo; De La Cruz Ayuso, Cristina; Gómez Sánchez, Davinia; Intxaurbe Vitorica, José Ramón; Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari; Rodríguez Fernández, Lidia; Urrutia Asua, Gorka; Vicente Torrado, Trinidad Lourdes
Abstract: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación / Start date: 2024/09/02 / End date: 2027/12/31
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari
Start date: 2024/01/01 / End date: 2026/12/31
Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari; Caponio, Tiziana
Abstract: UNION EUROPEA / Start date: 2021/01/01 / End date: 2024/03/31
Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity-FOCUS
Irastorza Arandia, Nahikari; Bird, Martha
Abstract: UNION EUROPEA / Start date: 2019/01/01 / End date: 2021/12/31
Certificado de acreditación nacional: Profesor Titular de Universidad en Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas.
IRASTORZA ARANDIA, NAHIKARI
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Start date: 2024/03/04 / End date: 2026/01/16
Editora jefe de la revista científica internacional "Nordic Journal of Migration Research"
IRASTORZA ARANDIA, NAHIKARI
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Start date: 2022/01/01 / End date: 2026/01/16
Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-Comm).
IRASTORZA ARANDIA, NAHIKARI
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Start date: 2021/01/01 / End date: 2024/06/30
Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)
IRASTORZA ARANDIA, NAHIKARI
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Start date: 2019/01/01 / End date: 2021/12/31