Marie McAuliffe is a doctoral candidate supported by the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation at the School of Demography, the Australian National University and is on leave from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.Marie is currently on a research fellowship at the Global Migration Centre in the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Her home base is in Turkey where she is completing her doctoral research on the unauthorized maritime migration patterns and processes of Hazaras to Australia. Marie is also a visiting scholar at the National Population Institute at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.

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