Giulia Gagliano (she/her) is a recently graduated honours Political Science student with a Minor in Gender Studies and a Certificate in French Language and Cultural Proficiency. Her primary research interests are issues of nationalism, migration, and border politics, in particular, analyzed through a critical intersectional lens. As a recipient of the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award and the J. Alan Baker Memorial Scholarship, she completed an honours thesis that critically analyzes the Italian nationalist anti-immigrant discourses within the broader socio-political context of the 2015-2016 EU Migrant Crisis. In the summer of 2022, she is doing an internship at the European Commission’s Migration and Home Affairs working in the Anti-Trafficking unit.