Tony's
3755 Richmond Ave.
3755 Richmond Ave.
Houston, TX 77046
February 26, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
SPEAKER: DR. KELSEY P. NORMAN, FELLOW, BAKER INSTITUTE @ RICE UNIVERSITY
More people than ever before - approximately 300 million - live in a different country than the one they were born in. Whether people migrate through formal channels, are forcibly displaced across borders, or migrate irregularly to improve their life chances, the issue has serious political consequences for receiving countries as well as migrants and refugees themselves.
In the U.S. under President Trump, irregular border crossings have effectively stopped, and migration enforcement has shifted from the border - where few saw what was happening - to the rest of the country. As a result, our news is now filled with masked, heavily-armed I.C.E. agents arresting and shooting men, women, and children outside of courts or at schools and homes, whether or not these individuals have legal authority to stay in the U.S.
Our speaker, Dr. Kelsey Norman, Fellow and Director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, will discuss how migration has become one of the most serious sets of issues causing divisions and political backlash in our country. She will discuss the differences in enforcement and executive actions during President Trump’s second administration, deportations by ICE, and the political contention around migration throughout the world.
Please invite your friends and colleagues to this very important program, presented by one of the acknowledged experts in the field.
Joe Colangelo
Program Committee
Rotary Club of Houston
Dr. Kelsey Norman is a Fellow and Director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights & Refugees program at the Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Her research and teaching focus on the politics of migration and refugee hosting in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as globally. Her first book, Reluctant Reception: Migration, Refugees and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, was published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. The book was selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Titles for 2021 and was awarded an honorable mention by the American Political Science Association's Migration and Citizenship 2021 Best Book Committee. Her second book, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa, co-authored with Dr. Nicholas Micinski, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2026. Her writing for popular media outlets has been published by The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Conversation and The Atlantic.
