Ashika Niraula

Dr. Ashika Niraula is a post-doctoral research fellow at the CERC Migration and Integration program at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Having worked as a researcher in Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Nepal, Ashika has expertise in the issues of high-skilled migration, development, social inequalities, inclusion, gender, and qualitative research.

Ashika holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Anthropology from Aarhus University in Denmark. She completed her MPhil degree in Gender and Development from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a Master’s degree in Rural Development from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She also worked as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, and at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Ashika’s research interest includes highly skilled migration, in particular decision-making, identity formation, migrant agency, social determinants of health, settlement, integration, networks, and political activism.