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As countries like Canada and the UK take steps to ease entry requirements for Ukrainian refugees, most Ukrainians can’t come to the U.S. without a visa. “I think if the U.S. doesn’t do something further, it would be very out of pace with what most Western nations are doing right now to help support Ukrainians," says Middle East fellow Kelsey Norman, director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program.

Liberal democratic countries are increasingly outsourcing the problem of uncontrolled migration, but this strategy is not viable in the long run, writes Kelsey Norman, the director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program. In this article Norman contends that the only way wealthy states can solve the problem is by making regular avenues of migration more accessible.

This essay was awarded a 2021 Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize by Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs.

"Choice," a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, has selected fellow Kelsey Norman's book, "Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa," as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of the year.

The war in Afghanistan may be over, but what of the Afghans who fled the country as the U.S. withdrew its forces? In a podcast for the World Affairs Council, Kelsey Norman, Middle East fellow and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, described the U.S. refugee response and recommends ways forward.

Congratulations to Middle East fellow Kelsey Norman, who received the 2021 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize from the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs magazine! This annual competition encourages early-career scholars to translate their academic research on a major global policy issue into an essay, making their ideas more accessible to policymakers.