Migrant Smuggling Data and Research

Marie McAuliffe is the newly appointed head of the Migration Policy
Research Division in IOM Geneva. Marie has published in peer-reviewed migration
journals and for policy organizations on migrant smuggling, asylum seekers and
refugees, and protection in South-East Asia. She is currently editing a book on
irregular migration (with Khalid Koser) due to be published in 2017 by ANU Press.
Marie is also a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University, and is on
leave from the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection. *
She is a visiting fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a visiting scholar at the
Population Institute at Hacettepe University in Ankara. Marie has led migration
research and policy teams in government and has consulted to the IOM, the ILO,
as well as in the private sector, including while based in the Republic of Korea,
the Russian Federation and Turkey. For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed
the Australian irregular migration research programme.
Nassim Majidi is the founder and co-director of Samuel Hall, a think
tank specializing in field-based research, with offices in Kabul, Nairobi and
Mogadishu. Nassim is an associate researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for
International Studies and Research, and has published over 20 articles on
migration issues covering Afghanistan, the East and Horn of Africa. She teaches
a master’s course on refugees and migration as part of Sciences Po Lille’s Conflict
and Development programme. Her cross-cutting skills have led her to interview
refugees, migrants and returnees in the world’s border areas, origin, transit and
destination countries. Based on her knowledge of migration actors, she has
developed programmes, policies and monitoring reviews that have had a lasting
impact. Nassim was nominated in 2015 by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the
Nansen Refugee Award. Nassim has a PhD and a master’s degree in International
Relations (Sciences Po Paris), and a BA in Government (Cornell University).
Arezo Malakooti is a social researcher with a developed expertise on
migration-related research. At the time of writing, Arezo was the director of
Migration Research at Altai Consulting. She is the primary author of a number
of studies on migration to and through North Africa, which has involved periods
of time spent in the region conducting interviews with migrants on the ground.
This includes Irregular Migration from West Africa to North Africa and Europe
(Altai for IOM Nigeria, 2015); Migration Trends in the Mediterranean: Connecting
the Dots (Altai for IOM MENA, 2015); Mixed Migration: Libya at the Crossroads.
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The opinions, comments and analyses expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of the department or any of the organizations or institutions with which the
author is affiliated.
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