Professional background:

• Since January 2024: Researcher at the Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR)
• Associate Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in the “External Dimensions of Migration Policy” project, June 2022 – December 2023
• Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in political sciences at Freie Universität Berlin with a doctoral thesis on “The government of exile: framing Europe’s refugees in the common European asylum system”, 2023
• Affiliate Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre with a focus on EU asylum and migration policy, 2017–2022
• Fellow of the Charlemagne Prize Academy, working on a project looking into innovative ways to reform EU asylum policy, 2019–2020
• Doctoral Fellow on the Human Rights Under Pressure – Ethics, Law, and Politics Graduate Programme, a cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014–2019
• Topic Manager, Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, focusing on EU law, 2012–2014
• Trainee at the European Commission, Employment and Social Affairs Directorate, 2011–2012
• Research Associate at the International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), 2011
• Double master’s degree at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Sciences Po Paris, 2008–2010
• Foundation course in political and social sciences at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Heidelberg, 2005–2008

Publications:

Walter-Franke, Marie/Yücetas, Hakan 2024: Zufluchtsland als neue Heimat: Einbürgerung von Geflüchteten nach der Reform des deutschen Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts. SVR-Policy Brief 2024-2, Berlin.

Walter-Franke, Marie 2024: Jus Soli auf Mayotte: Wegen zu hoher Zuwanderungszahlen will Frankreich das Gleichheitsprinzip kippen. Blogpost, FluchtforschungsBlog (available online: https://fluchtforschung.net/jus-soli-auf-mayotte-wegen-zu-hoher-zuwanderungszahlen-will-frankreich-das-gleichheitsprinzip-kippen)

Walter-Franke, Marie 2023: Anreize und Druck in der Migrationskooperation. Was Konditionalität bewirken kann und was nicht. DGAP Memo Nr 5 (available online: https://dgap.org/de/forschung/publikationen/anreize-und-druck-der-migrationskooperation).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2023: In der Migrationsdebatte gibt es keine einfachen Lösungen. In: Internationale Politik (available online: https://internationalepolitik.de/de/der-migrationsdebatte-gibt-es-keine-einfachen-loesungen).

Rietig, Victoria/Walter-Franke, Marie 2023: Conditionality in Migration Cooperation. Five Ideas for Future Use Beyond Carrots, Sticks and Delusions. DGAP Report No. 7 (available online: https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/conditionality-migration-cooperation)

Walter-Franke, Marie 2021: Triaging Mixed Migration: Trump Card or Achilles Heel of the Common European Asylum System? Insights from Organized Hypocrisy. In: International journal of refugee law, 33 (4), 645-670, DOI: 10.1093/ijrl/eeac015

Rasche Lucas/Walter-Franke, Marie 2020: Clear, fair and fast? Border procedures in the Pact on Asylum & Migration. Policy paper, Jacques Delors Centre (available online:  https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/border-procedures-in-the-pact-on-asylum-migration-clear-fair-and-fast).

Rasche Lucas/Walter-Franke, Marie 2020: EU-Grenzverfahren: eindeutig, fair und schnell? Der ‚New Pact‘ im Check. Blog Post, FluchtforschungsBlog (available online: https://blog.fluchtforschung.net/eu-grenzverfahren-eindeutig-fair-und-schnell-der-new-pact-im-check/).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2020: Less policing, more policies. A ‘fresh’ design for the EU’s asylum system. Beitrag in Charlemagne Prize Academy Annual Report 2020, 32-39 (available online:  https://www.charlemagneprizeacademy.com/Portals/karlspreisakademie/Charlemagne%20Prize%20Academy_Annual%20Report%202020.pdf)

Walter-Franke, Marie 2020: Europe to the rescEU: The missing piece in EU migration management is civil protection. Policy Brief, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/europe-to-the-resceu-the-missing-piece-in-eu-migration-management-is-civil-protection).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2020: Redeploying EU asylum policy: A way out of the governance quagmire. Policy paper, Jacques Delors Centre (available online:  https://hertieschool-f4e6.kxcdn.com/fileadmin/2_Research/1_About_our_research/2_Research_centres/6_Jacques_Delors_Centre/Publications/20200623_Redeployment_Asylum_Strategy_Walter-Franke.pdf).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2019: Variable geometry risky for refugees: the Danish case. Policy position, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/de/publikationen/detail/publication/flexible-integration-gefaehrlich-fuer-gefluechtete-fall-daenemark).

Davitti, Daria/Fries, Marlene/Walter-Franke, Marie 2018: Gradations of externalisation: Is the EU sailing towards offshoring asylum protection?. Policy brief 3/2018 for the Forced Migration Unit of the Human Rights Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Nottingham (available online: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/documents/fmu-policy-brief/pb-3-gradations-of-externalisation.pdf).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2018: Building a European Asylum Regime in Discordance: Polarized representations of refugees in the discursive process of policy-making. In: Politique européenne 60(2), 34-70, DOI: 10.3917/poeu.060.0034

Bar-Tuvia, Shani/Walter-Franke, Marie 2017: Why Some E.U. States Want Hotspots in the Sahel. Op-ed, Refugees Deeply (available online: https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/11/10/why-some-e-u-states-want-hotspots-in-the-sahel).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2017: External EU Hotspots: The cat keeps coming back. Blog Post, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/external-eu-hotspots-the-cat-keeps-coming-back/).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2017: The missing reflection paper on asylum policy. Blog Post, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/the-missing-reflection-paper-on-asylum-policy).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2017: One year on: What lessons from the EU-Turkey ‘deal’? Blog Post, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/one-year-on-what-lessons-from-the-eu-turkey-deal/).

Walter-Franke, Marie 2017: Asylum detention in Europe: State of play and ways forward. Policy Paper Nr 195, Jacques Delors Centre (available online: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/asylum-detention-in-europe-state-of-play-and-ways-forward/).