Mina earned her Doctoral Degree in 2020 from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she has also finished her Master in Immigration Management. Prior to UPF, she studied International Development (MA) in the University Institute Ortega and Gasset in Spain and International Relations and History (BA) in the American University of Bulgaria. She has done internships related to immigration projects in the Spanish research institutes FRIDE and CIDOB. In Serbia she has worked in an NGO that provides support and assistance to refugees from the Ex-Yugoslavian wars. Her main research interests are the relation between immigration and primary education, intercultural relations and school trust.