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Irina Isaakyan

Senior Research Fellow
EducationPhD, University of Edinburgh

Irina is a qualitative interpretive sociologist who studies high-skill and elite migrations, migrant agency and integration, the work of memory and identity, symbolic interaction, and formation of diasporas. Through the prism of symbolic interactionism and interpretive biographic research, her work challenges traditional understandings of integration and agency by looking into their intersectionality and having a particular focus on global elite and transnational migrants such as artists and athletes.

Originally from Russia, Irina has studied and worked globally, including academic institutions in Russia, Scotland, Italy and North America. For many years, she has been Associate Editor for the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies and the Managing Editor of the IMISCOE-Springer Research Series.

Recent Publication 

Isaakyan, I. (2026/Forthcoming). 鈥楶ublishing Migration Research: Tips on Publishing a Journal Article鈥�, in R. Zapato-Barrero and D. Vintila (Eds.) G枚莽 Ara艧t谋rmalar谋nda Y枚ntemler [How to Do Migration Research (translated into Turkish)]. GAV Perspektif Publishing House.

Isaakyan, I. (2025). , in L. Oso (Ed). Elgar Encyclopedia of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Isaakyan, I. (2024). . IMISCOE-Springer.

Isaakyan, I. (2024). 鈥楶ublishing Migration Research: Tips on Publishing a Journal Article鈥�, in R. Zapato-Barrero and D. Vintila (Eds.) How to Do Migration Research, Edward Elgar Publishing. .

Isaakyan, I. (2023). 鈥楨lite migrations鈥�, in A. Triandafyllidou (Ed.) . London & New York: Routledge. Pp. 116-125.

Isaakyan, I., Baglioni, S., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2023). The 鈥榖ack-stepper鈥檃nd the 鈥榗areer diplomat鈥�: turning points of labour market integration.  , 120.

Isaakyan, I. (2022). . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(16), 3860鈥�3878. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2028351

Isaakyan, I., Triandafyllidou, A., & Baglioni, S. (2023).  (p. 231). Springer Nature.

Isaakyan, I., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2021). . In Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers鈥� Integration in European Labour Markets: A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers (pp. 95-113). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Triandafyllidou, A. (2019) , European Journal of Cultural Studies.