Kelsey P. Norman is a Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees program at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Irvine.

'Norman makes a convincing case for rethinking and retheorizing the role of so-called 'transit countries' … Introducing the concept of 'strategic indifference', and constructing a detailed comparison based on a wealth of original fieldwork, Norman demonstrates why governments of the Global South … should be viewed as central and intentional actors in a complex relationship between them, the migrants, and the many international organizations involved in migration and refugee governance.' Laurie Brand, University of Southern California

• 1. Introduction: migration in the Global North and South; 2. Host state engagement in the Middle East and North Africa; 3. Egypt: from strategic indifference to post-revolutionary repression; 4. Morocco: from raids and roundups to a new politics of migration; 5. Turkey: from strategic indifference to institutionalized control; 6. Differential treatment by nationality? Ethnicity, religion, and race; 7. The domestic influence of international actors: UNHCR and IOM's role in host state policy outcomes; 8. The post-2015 migration paradigm in the Mediterranean; 9. Conclusion and avenues forward.

Kelsey P. Norman is a Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees program at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Irvine.

'Norman makes a convincing case for rethinking and retheorizing the role of so-called 'transit countries' … Introducing the concept of 'strategic indifference', and constructing a detailed comparison based on a wealth of original fieldwork, Norman demonstrates why governments of the Global South … should be viewed as central and intentional actors in a complex relationship between them, the migrants, and the many international organizations involved in migration and refugee governance.' Laurie Brand, University of Southern California

• 1. Introduction: migration in the Global North and South; 2. Host state engagement in the Middle East and North Africa; 3. Egypt: from strategic indifference to post-revolutionary repression; 4. Morocco: from raids and roundups to a new politics of migration; 5. Turkey: from strategic indifference to institutionalized control; 6. Differential treatment by nationality? Ethnicity, religion, and race; 7. The domestic influence of international actors: UNHCR and IOM's role in host state policy outcomes; 8. The post-2015 migration paradigm in the Mediterranean; 9. Conclusion and avenues forward.