She is a member of MIRAS and a predoctoral researcher at the UAB’s Translation and Intercultural Studies programme. Her doctoral research, co-directed by Dr. Marta Arumí from the Translation and Interpretation Department and Dr. Hugo Valenzuela from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UAB, focuses on the arrival processes and routes into education of Pakistani women in Barcelona.
In 2016, together with Alejandra Tercero, Berta Güell, Eva Maciocco and Komal Naz, she founded the informal research group “Recerpak” specialized in the study of the Pakistani community in Barcelona. Between 2016 and 2017 Recerpak took part in a study of Pakistani trade in the Raval neighborhood, commissioned by the Ciutat Vella District of Barcelona City Council and coordinated by Berta Güell. The main results of the project are shown here.
Marina Arrasate holds a degree in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master’s Degree in Literary Creation from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Between 2014 and today she has combined teaching activities in different contexts with research in the social field. She has worked as a research assistant in MIRAS, collaborating with the project ‘The quality of translation as a factor in the guarantee of criminal proceedings: development of resources at the service of judicial interpreters of Romanian, Arabic, Chinese, French and English’.
In July 2015 she defended her Master Thesis on Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies that was awarded with Honors. The results of this research were published in the journal Lengua y Migración.
Arrasate Hierro-Olavarría, Marina. 2017. “Comunicación Y Acceso a Los Servicios Públicos: Estudio de La Perspectiva de Las Mujeres Pakistaníes de Barcelona.” Lengua y migración 9–1:39–62.