Juna Toska, M.A.

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Curriculum Vitae

Juna Toska is a researcher at the Chair of policy research and environmental politics since June 2020, participating in the project “Migration and institutional change in the German health care system in the field of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care of refugees (MIGEP)”. Before joining the project, she worked as a researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, focusing on Comparative Politics. She earned her BA degree in European Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and the Babeş-Bolyai-University Kluj-Napoca in Romania and her MA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies in Magdeburg. During her studies, Juna Toska gained varied practical experience in the field of migration and European immigration policy and worked as a student research assistant, as well. Among other activities, she joined the initiative “Integration of political refugees with academic backgrounds or ambitions” (IpFaH) at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal from 2017 to 2018 and worked as a scientific assistant with the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) research project “Ideas of social order among religious elites in Southeast Europe” for two years (2017-2018). Among her research interests are migration, social and health policy, policy research, political systems, and political culture in a comparative perspective.