Leila Giannetto is Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute, where she works on the Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe (PRIME) project. She previously worked on the H2020 project “Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective (WHOLECOMM)”. She has also worked with Fieri and Euricse as research fellow and with IOM, CPMR and CIDOB as consultant and integration expert. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Trento in 2018 with a thesis titled “More than consultation. Civil society organisations mainstreaming fundamental rights in EU border management policies: the case of Frontex and its Consultative Forum”. Her research interests are on Frontex and fundamental rights, on civil society organisations’ role in the governance of EU border management and asylum, and on the reception and integration of refugees and asylum seekers in EU member states and in remote areas.