Kelsey P Norman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsey P Norman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Norman |
| SIGNATURE | NORMAN K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5044-0280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Leveraging Selective State Capacity: Understanding Changing Responses to Migration and Refugees
State capacity is seen as one of the central elements determining whether countries have “strong” or “weak” systems of immigration and asylum. An underlying assumption of the global refugee regime is that countries of the Global South—thought to have less state capacity—do not have the ability to respond and host asylum seekers and refugees and must be financially supported by countries of the Global North in order to do so. But how can we unders…
The ‘inherent vulnerability’ of women on the move: A gendered analysis of Morocco’s migration reform
Beginning in the 1990s, Morocco increasingly became a de facto host country for sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers originally intending to reach Europe. While the government’s treatment toward these groups was characterized by informality and violence throughout the early 2000s, Morocco embarked on a reform process in 2013 that included a regularization process for irregular migrants. During the regularization process, the Moroccan governmen…
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East by Raffaella A. Del Sarto
Journal Article Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East by Raffaella A. Del Sarto Get access Raffaella A Del Sarto. New York, Oxford University Press, 2021. 208 pp. $90.00. Kelsey P Norman Kelsey P Norman Rice University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad135, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad135 Published: 12 January 2024
Palestine: Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System , by Anne Irfan
Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System , by Anne Irfan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 328 pages. $140 cloth, $35 paper, $34.99 e-book
Assessing the domestic political impacts of Turkey's refugee commodification
Refugee commodification, or the use of refugee hosting to extract political and economic concessions, has attracted growing scholarly attention in recent years. Yet, studies tend to focus on its international component, neglecting the domestic political space and how these extractions impact domestic political dynamics. To address this gap, we ask: how does refugee commodification influence domestic politics? Our study focuses on the Republican P…
Strategic non-regulation as migration governance
Over the last decade, critical migration scholarship has been increasingly concerned with how state actors in both the Global South and Global North deploy forms of inaction and ambivalent action to govern migrants. Scholars have mobilized and developed concepts to capture such strategic non-regulation, ranging from notions of standoffishness, ignorance, indifference, ambiguity, adhocracy, and informality in political science, IR and sociology, t…
Cities and the Contentious Politics of Migration
The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism
The European Union and its member states have invested billions of euros in migration management programs that purport to promote “good migration governance” around the world. But what is the impact of migration management aid on governance outside of the EU? In this article, we theorise the impact of migration management aid on governance in recipient countries by analysing the key policy areas of intervention. To do so, we focus on the effects …
Urbanization, informal governance and refugee integration in Egypt
How does urban migrant and refugee settlement occur in face of national inaction on immigration policy? This paper focuses on recent migration to Cairo, a Global South megacity that is home to migrants and refugees from across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Using in-depth fieldwork, it examines the informal policies that have developed in the absence of national legislation, and explores the impact these have on: (1) the ability for indi…
Migrant and refugee mobilisation in North African host states: Egypt and Morocco in comparison
Scholarly work on migration to Europe and North America asserts that states adopt liberal migration policies when migrants are able to mobilise and when they are assisted by state and non-state institutions. To what extent does this explanation for mobilisation transfer to the Global South where authoritarian state structures might be in place, thereby constraining certain political behaviours? This paper examines why migrants and refugees have b…
Introduction: Taking stock of Middle East migration since the Arab uprisings
Ten years ago, the world watched in disbelief as Tunisians used unprecedented collective action and civil resistance to end the 23-year-long reign of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. On January 15, the day after Ben Ali fled the country for Saudi Arabia, Larbi Sadiki of the University of Exeter wrote in an article for Al Jazeera, “The winds of uncertainty blowing in the Arab west-the Maghreb-threaten to blow eastwards toward the Levant a…
Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey P. Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa. While current classifications of migrant and refugee engagement in the Global South mistake the absence of formal policy and law for neglect, Reluctant Reception proposes the conc…
Migration Diplomacy and Policy Liberalization in Morocco and Turkey
This article examines the 2013 migration policy liberalizations in Morocco and Turkey in order to understand whether predominantly “human rights-centric” or “diplomatic” factors influenced domestic decisions to reform migration policies. It uses original interview data collected in 2015, as well as policy documents, to examine the two reform processes and their initial consequences for migrants and refugees residing in each host state. While the …
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants by Michael Agier and co-authors provides a multidimensional view of the history, establishment and destruction of the migrant encampment near Calais, France. Referred to as the Calais Jungle, the camp—at least at one point—contained 10,000 inhabitants. The book's interdisciplinary approach will appeal to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others, and its inclusion of non-ac…
Transforming refugees into migrants: Institutional Change and the Politics of International Protection
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam (dir.) (2018)
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Changing Motivations or Capabilities? Migration Deterrence in the Global Context
Over the last thirty-five years, Western liberal democracies have exerted more control over their borders through an array of innovative migration-control practices. Scholars have taken stock of these efforts and referred to them collectively as “deterrence” measures, ignoring the fact that deterrence is an established concept with a focused definition and meaning. We argue that in the context of migration governance, the concept of deterrence ha…
Inclusion, exclusion or indifference? Redefining migrant and refugee host state engagement options in Mediterranean 'transit' countries
What determines policies toward migrants and refugees in the transit-turned-host countries? Compared to the vast literature examining migration to Europe and North America, we know relatively little about why ‘newer’ host states pursue a liberal strategy with access to residency, employment and services on par with citizens, or what drives them to treat migrants and refugees with exclusion. This paper argues that there is a third choice: the idea…
Ostensibly Indifferent: Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
While coverage of the 2015 refugee crisis highlighted the impact on Europe, countries of the Middle East and North Africa host approximately four times the number of refugees, in addition to millions of migrants. This paper asks: What options do host states in the Middle East and North Africa have for engaging with migrants and refugees residing semipermanently on their territory? It presents a new policy option, “indifference,” that allows us to…
Ostensibly Indifferent: Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Ambivalence as Policy: Consequences for Refugees in Egypt
Ce papier soutient que lorsqu’il s’agit des migrations vers des pays en voie développement, l’étude sur la politique de migrations et des réfugiés confondent l'absence de politique officielle avec la négligence. J’utilise une étude de cas qualitative pour examiner le cas de l'Egypte; le pays le plus peuplé de la région et l'hôte d'une grande population de réfugiés urbains. Comme cet article illustrera, le gouvernement Egyptien est pleinement cons…
Between Europe and Africa: Morocco as a country of immigration
In September 2013, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, made an announcement that startled the country’s civil society: Morocco would be reforming its national migration policy. Specifically, he called for the drafting of a new comprehensive policy on immigration with the intention of providing a path to regularization for migrants, the majority of whom originate from West African states. Why did the Moroccan government suddenly change its approach …
Migration Diplomacy and Policy Liberalization in Morocco and Turkey
This article examines the 2013 migration policy liberalizations in Morocco and Turkey in order to understand whether predominantly “human rights-centric” or “diplomatic” factors influenced domestic decisions to reform migration policies. It uses original interview data collected in 2015, as well as policy documents, to examine the two reform processes and their initial consequences for migrants and refugees residing in each host state. While the …
Between Europe and Africa: Morocco as a country of immigration
In September 2013, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, made an announcement that startled the country’s civil society: Morocco would be reforming its national migration policy. Specifically, he called for the drafting of a new comprehensive policy on immigration with the intention of providing a path to regularization for migrants, the majority of whom originate from West African states. Why did the Moroccan government suddenly change its approach …
Inclusion, exclusion or indifference? Redefining migrant and refugee host state engagement options in Mediterranean 'transit' countries
What determines policies toward migrants and refugees in the transit-turned-host countries? Compared to the vast literature examining migration to Europe and North America, we know relatively little about why ‘newer’ host states pursue a liberal strategy with access to residency, employment and services on par with citizens, or what drives them to treat migrants and refugees with exclusion. This paper argues that there is a third choice: the idea…
Transforming refugees into migrants: Institutional Change and the Politics of International Protection
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Strategic non-regulation as migration governance
Over the last decade, critical migration scholarship has been increasingly concerned with how state actors in both the Global South and Global North deploy forms of inaction and ambivalent action to govern migrants. Scholars have mobilized and developed concepts to capture such strategic non-regulation, ranging from notions of standoffishness, ignorance, indifference, ambiguity, adhocracy, and informality in political science, IR and sociology, t…
Changing Motivations or Capabilities? Migration Deterrence in the Global Context
Over the last thirty-five years, Western liberal democracies have exerted more control over their borders through an array of innovative migration-control practices. Scholars have taken stock of these efforts and referred to them collectively as “deterrence” measures, ignoring the fact that deterrence is an established concept with a focused definition and meaning. We argue that in the context of migration governance, the concept of deterrence ha…
The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism
The European Union and its member states have invested billions of euros in migration management programs that purport to promote “good migration governance” around the world. But what is the impact of migration management aid on governance outside of the EU? In this article, we theorise the impact of migration management aid on governance in recipient countries by analysing the key policy areas of intervention. To do so, we focus on the effects …
Assessing the domestic political impacts of Turkey's refugee commodification
Refugee commodification, or the use of refugee hosting to extract political and economic concessions, has attracted growing scholarly attention in recent years. Yet, studies tend to focus on its international component, neglecting the domestic political space and how these extractions impact domestic political dynamics. To address this gap, we ask: how does refugee commodification influence domestic politics? Our study focuses on the Republican P…
Migrant and refugee mobilisation in North African host states: Egypt and Morocco in comparison
Scholarly work on migration to Europe and North America asserts that states adopt liberal migration policies when migrants are able to mobilise and when they are assisted by state and non-state institutions. To what extent does this explanation for mobilisation transfer to the Global South where authoritarian state structures might be in place, thereby constraining certain political behaviours? This paper examines why migrants and refugees have b…
Urbanization, informal governance and refugee integration in Egypt
How does urban migrant and refugee settlement occur in face of national inaction on immigration policy? This paper focuses on recent migration to Cairo, a Global South megacity that is home to migrants and refugees from across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Using in-depth fieldwork, it examines the informal policies that have developed in the absence of national legislation, and explores the impact these have on: (1) the ability for indi…
Leveraging Selective State Capacity: Understanding Changing Responses to Migration and Refugees
State capacity is seen as one of the central elements determining whether countries have “strong” or “weak” systems of immigration and asylum. An underlying assumption of the global refugee regime is that countries of the Global South—thought to have less state capacity—do not have the ability to respond and host asylum seekers and refugees and must be financially supported by countries of the Global North in order to do so. But how can we unders…
The ‘inherent vulnerability’ of women on the move: A gendered analysis of Morocco’s migration reform
Beginning in the 1990s, Morocco increasingly became a de facto host country for sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers originally intending to reach Europe. While the government’s treatment toward these groups was characterized by informality and violence throughout the early 2000s, Morocco embarked on a reform process in 2013 that included a regularization process for irregular migrants. During the regularization process, the Moroccan governmen…
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants by Michael Agier and co-authors provides a multidimensional view of the history, establishment and destruction of the migrant encampment near Calais, France. Referred to as the Calais Jungle, the camp—at least at one point—contained 10,000 inhabitants. The book's interdisciplinary approach will appeal to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others, and its inclusion of non-ac…
Between Europe and Africa: Morocco as a country of immigration
In September 2013, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, made an announcement that startled the country’s civil society: Morocco would be reforming its national migration policy. Specifically, he called for the drafting of a new comprehensive policy on immigration with the intention of providing a path to regularization for migrants, the majority of whom originate from West African states. Why did the Moroccan government suddenly change its approach …
Ambivalence as Policy: Consequences for Refugees in Egypt
Ce papier soutient que lorsqu’il s’agit des migrations vers des pays en voie développement, l’étude sur la politique de migrations et des réfugiés confondent l'absence de politique officielle avec la négligence. J’utilise une étude de cas qualitative pour examiner le cas de l'Egypte; le pays le plus peuplé de la région et l'hôte d'une grande population de réfugiés urbains. Comme cet article illustrera, le gouvernement Egyptien est pleinement cons…
Ostensibly Indifferent: Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
While coverage of the 2015 refugee crisis highlighted the impact on Europe, countries of the Middle East and North Africa host approximately four times the number of refugees, in addition to millions of migrants. This paper asks: What options do host states in the Middle East and North Africa have for engaging with migrants and refugees residing semipermanently on their territory? It presents a new policy option, “indifference,” that allows us to…
Ostensibly Indifferent: Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Migration and Refugee Policy-Making in Modern Egypt, Morocco, & Turkey
Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam (dir.) (2018)
Preview this article: Chez Jolie Coiffure, Rosine Mbakam (dir.) (2018), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/cjmc/10/2/cjmc.10.2.331-1.gif
Changing Motivations or Capabilities? Migration Deterrence in the Global Context
Over the last thirty-five years, Western liberal democracies have exerted more control over their borders through an array of innovative migration-control practices. Scholars have taken stock of these efforts and referred to them collectively as “deterrence” measures, ignoring the fact that deterrence is an established concept with a focused definition and meaning. We argue that in the context of migration governance, the concept of deterrence ha…
Inclusion, exclusion or indifference? Redefining migrant and refugee host state engagement options in Mediterranean 'transit' countries
What determines policies toward migrants and refugees in the transit-turned-host countries? Compared to the vast literature examining migration to Europe and North America, we know relatively little about why ‘newer’ host states pursue a liberal strategy with access to residency, employment and services on par with citizens, or what drives them to treat migrants and refugees with exclusion. This paper argues that there is a third choice: the idea…
Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey P. Norman offers this original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa. While current classifications of migrant and refugee engagement in the Global South mistake the absence of formal policy and law for neglect, Reluctant Reception proposes the conc…
Migration Diplomacy and Policy Liberalization in Morocco and Turkey
This article examines the 2013 migration policy liberalizations in Morocco and Turkey in order to understand whether predominantly “human rights-centric” or “diplomatic” factors influenced domestic decisions to reform migration policies. It uses original interview data collected in 2015, as well as policy documents, to examine the two reform processes and their initial consequences for migrants and refugees residing in each host state. While the …
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants
The Jungle: Calais's camps and migrants by Michael Agier and co-authors provides a multidimensional view of the history, establishment and destruction of the migrant encampment near Calais, France. Referred to as the Calais Jungle, the camp—at least at one point—contained 10,000 inhabitants. The book's interdisciplinary approach will appeal to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others, and its inclusion of non-ac…
Transforming refugees into migrants: Institutional Change and the Politics of International Protection
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Urbanization, informal governance and refugee integration in Egypt
How does urban migrant and refugee settlement occur in face of national inaction on immigration policy? This paper focuses on recent migration to Cairo, a Global South megacity that is home to migrants and refugees from across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Using in-depth fieldwork, it examines the informal policies that have developed in the absence of national legislation, and explores the impact these have on: (1) the ability for indi…
Migrant and refugee mobilisation in North African host states: Egypt and Morocco in comparison
Scholarly work on migration to Europe and North America asserts that states adopt liberal migration policies when migrants are able to mobilise and when they are assisted by state and non-state institutions. To what extent does this explanation for mobilisation transfer to the Global South where authoritarian state structures might be in place, thereby constraining certain political behaviours? This paper examines why migrants and refugees have b…
Introduction: Taking stock of Middle East migration since the Arab uprisings
Ten years ago, the world watched in disbelief as Tunisians used unprecedented collective action and civil resistance to end the 23-year-long reign of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. On January 15, the day after Ben Ali fled the country for Saudi Arabia, Larbi Sadiki of the University of Exeter wrote in an article for Al Jazeera, “The winds of uncertainty blowing in the Arab west-the Maghreb-threaten to blow eastwards toward the Levant a…
Cities and the Contentious Politics of Migration
The European Union's migration management aid: Developing democracies or supporting authoritarianism
The European Union and its member states have invested billions of euros in migration management programs that purport to promote “good migration governance” around the world. But what is the impact of migration management aid on governance outside of the EU? In this article, we theorise the impact of migration management aid on governance in recipient countries by analysing the key policy areas of intervention. To do so, we focus on the effects …
Strategic non-regulation as migration governance
Over the last decade, critical migration scholarship has been increasingly concerned with how state actors in both the Global South and Global North deploy forms of inaction and ambivalent action to govern migrants. Scholars have mobilized and developed concepts to capture such strategic non-regulation, ranging from notions of standoffishness, ignorance, indifference, ambiguity, adhocracy, and informality in political science, IR and sociology, t…
Leveraging Selective State Capacity: Understanding Changing Responses to Migration and Refugees
State capacity is seen as one of the central elements determining whether countries have “strong” or “weak” systems of immigration and asylum. An underlying assumption of the global refugee regime is that countries of the Global South—thought to have less state capacity—do not have the ability to respond and host asylum seekers and refugees and must be financially supported by countries of the Global North in order to do so. But how can we unders…
The ‘inherent vulnerability’ of women on the move: A gendered analysis of Morocco’s migration reform
Beginning in the 1990s, Morocco increasingly became a de facto host country for sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers originally intending to reach Europe. While the government’s treatment toward these groups was characterized by informality and violence throughout the early 2000s, Morocco embarked on a reform process in 2013 that included a regularization process for irregular migrants. During the regularization process, the Moroccan governmen…
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East by Raffaella A. Del Sarto
Journal Article Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East by Raffaella A. Del Sarto Get access Raffaella A Del Sarto. New York, Oxford University Press, 2021. 208 pp. $90.00. Kelsey P Norman Kelsey P Norman Rice University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad135, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad135 Published: 12 January 2024
Palestine: Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System , by Anne Irfan
Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System , by Anne Irfan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 328 pages. $140 cloth, $35 paper, $34.99 e-book
Assessing the domestic political impacts of Turkey's refugee commodification
Refugee commodification, or the use of refugee hosting to extract political and economic concessions, has attracted growing scholarly attention in recent years. Yet, studies tend to focus on its international component, neglecting the domestic political space and how these extractions impact domestic political dynamics. To address this gap, we ask: how does refugee commodification influence domestic politics? Our study focuses on the Republican P…
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