nahikari irastorza arandia

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Nahikari 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.