Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert on migration and asylum matters, she obtained her PhD from King's College London, winning the King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize. She is the author of ‘The criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). For more information, see: www.matilderosina.com.