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Center for Migration and Refugee Studies

About the Course

This course will examine how and why migration-receiving, transit and sending states, as well as international organizations, collaborate to regulate migration.

The last decade has seen a dizzying proliferation of bilateral and multilateral agreements on migration, especially in the Mediterranean space, and this course provides the analytical tools, empirical evidence and critical thinking to understand the new (and old) ways that states are attempting to manage cross-border migration, in addition to the impact of such agreements for migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers. The course will draw on global examples but will also hone in on the case study of the EU, North Africa and the Middle East to grasp key concepts and trends. By the end of the course, students will gain the ability to analyze international migration agreements and their impacts on states and individuals, and will be able to place recent developments in their historical and global context.  

 

Duration

June 16 - 19, 2025

 

About the Instructor

Kelsey P. Norman is a fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program. She also teaches courses on Middle East politics and the politics of migration and refugees in Rice University’s master of global affairs program and the Department of Political Science. She has conducted extensive, empirically grounded research on refugees, migration and state policy, reflected in her award-winning book "Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa," published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Her second book, "Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa," co-authored with Nicholas Micinski, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her research has also been published in numerous academic journals and popular outlets, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. In 2025, she was awarded the Emerging Scholar prize by the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine.