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Academic
Gerasimos Tsourapas
Born 1982 (age 41–42) Title Editor-in-Chief, Migration Studies Education Doctoral advisor
Laleh Khalili ,
Charles R. H. Tripp Discipline Political Science Main interests migration diplomacy, refugees, diasporas, Middle East politics
Gerasimos Tsourapas (born 1982) is a Professor of International Relations at the
University of Glasgow .
[1] He currently serves as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the
International Studies Association
[2] and is the Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (
Oxford University Press ).
[3] His main areas of research and teaching are the politics of
migrants ,
refugees , and
diasporas , with particular expertise on cross-border mobility across the
Global South .
Tsourapas is the author of The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies , which was awarded the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award by the
International Studies Association .
[4] His second book was entitled Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State. He is the recipient of major research grants, including a five-year Starting Grant by the
European Research Council in 2021,
[5] a 2022–23 Small Group Project grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation,
[6] and a
British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award in 2018.
[7]
As a PhD student, Tsourapas's work on the politics of migration in Egypt was recognized with awards by the
Middle East Studies Association ,
[8] as well as the
American Political Science Association .
[9] In 2016, he was awarded the Martin O. Heisler Award by the International Studies Association for research on migration interdependence.
[10] He has been quoted by
The New York Times ,
[11]
The Economist ,
[12] and
Krautreporter .
[13]
Education
Tsourapas received an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from
Yale University (2006), where he compiled the history of the
Yale Dramatic Association , as the organisation's archivist, in 2004.
[14] Tsourapas also received an MSc in International Political Economy from the
London School of Economics and Political Science (2007).
[15] He completed his PhD in Politics at
SOAS, University of London (2016). His thesis received the
American Political Science Association 's 2016 Best Dissertation Prize on Migration & Citizenship. In 2019–20, Tsourapas served as a Fellow at the
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies ,
Harvard University .
[16] He served as a Visiting Professor at the
London School of Economics and Political Science in 2024.
[17]
Career
Tsourapas joined the faculty of the School of Social & Political Science at the
University of Glasgow in 2021.
[18]
Selected publications
Books
Articles
Sadiq, Kamal; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2023).
"The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South" .
International Studies Quarterly . 67 (4).
doi :
10.1093/isq/sqad088 .
ISSN
0020-8833 .
Şahin-Mencütek, Zeynep; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2023).
"When Do States Repatriate Refugees? Evidence from the Middle East" .
Journal of Global Security Studies . 8 (1).
doi :
10.1093/jogss/ogac031 .
ISSN
2057-3170 .
Siniver, Asaf; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2023).
"Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa" . Foreign Policy Analysis . 19 (2).
doi :
10.1093/fpa/orac041 .
ISSN
1743-8586 .
Tsourapas, Gerasimos; Zartaloudis, Sotirios (2022).
"Leveraging the European Refugee Crisis: Forced Displacement and Bargaining in Greece's Bailout Negotiations" .
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies . 60 (2): 245–263.
doi :
10.1111/jcms.13211 .
ISSN
0021-9886 .
Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2021).
"Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics" .
International Studies Review . 23 (3): 616–644.
doi :
10.1093/isr/viaa061 .
Sadiq, Kamal; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2021).
"The Postcolonial Migration State" .
European Journal of International Relations . 27 (3): 884–912.
doi :
10.1177/13540661211000114 .
ISSN
1354-0661 .
Freier, Luisa F.; Micinski, Nicholas R.; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2021).
"Refugee Commodification: The Diffusion of Refugee Rent-Seeking in the Global South" .
Third World Quarterly . 42 (11): 2747–2766.
doi :
10.1080/01436597.2021.1956891 .
ISSN
0143-6597 .
Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2020).
"The Long Arm of the Arab State" .
Ethnic and Racial Studies . 43 (2): 351–370.
doi :
10.1080/01419870.2019.1585558 .
ISSN
0141-9870 .
Adamson, Fiona B.; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2020).
"The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental, and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management" .
International Migration Review . 54 (3): 853–882.
doi :
10.1177/0197918319879057 .
ISSN
0197-9183 .
Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2019).
"The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey" .
Journal of Global Security Studies . 4 (4): 464–481.
doi :
10.1093/jogss/ogz016 . Retrieved 2024-01-20 .
Adamson, Fiona B; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2019).
"Migration Diplomacy in World Politics" .
International Studies Perspectives . 20 (2): 113–12.
doi :
10.1093/isp/eky015 .
Koinova, Maria; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2018).
"How Do Countries of Origin Engage Migrants and Diasporas? Multiple Actors and Comparative Perspectives" .
International Political Science Review . 39 (3): 311–321.
doi :
10.1177/0192512118755843 .
ISSN
0192-5121 .
Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2018).
"Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean" .
International Studies Quarterly . 62 (2): 383–395.
doi :
10.1093/isq/sqx088 .
References
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"Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas" .
University of Glasgow . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"ENMISA Governance and Leadership" .
International Studies Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"Editorial Board" .
Oxford Academic . Retrieved 2023-11-06 .
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"ENMISA Distinguished Book Award" .
International Studies Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"ERC grant competitions 2021: Final lists of researchers offered funding" (PDF) .
European Research Council . 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2024-01-21 .
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"Small Group Projects" . Independent Social Research Foundation . Retrieved 2024-01-21 .
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"BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2018" .
The British Academy . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Gerasimos Tsourapas" .
Middle East Studies Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"2016 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented" . PS: Political Science & Politics . 49 (4): 942–960. 2016.
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"Martin O. Heisler Award [ENMISA]" .
International Studies Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
^ Jackson, Lauren (2023-04-05).
"Tunisia's Influence in Europe" .
The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad" .
The Economist . 2021-02-04.
ISSN
0013-0613 . Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
^ Doran, Benjamin Hindrichs und Aoife (2022-01-07).
"Flüchtlinge als Ware sind die neue Normalität" . Krautreporter (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-08 .
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"Our History" .
Yale Dramatic Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
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"Gerasimos Tsourapas" . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . 2022-04-29. Retrieved 2024-01-21 .
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"Gerasimos Tsourapas" .
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies .
Harvard University . Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
^ Science, London School of Economics and Political.
"Gerasimos Tsourapas" . London School of Economics and Political Science . Retrieved 2024-04-27 .
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"New Politics & International Relations staff" . www.gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 2024-01-21 .
^ Aksel, Damla B. (2023-11-13).
"Book Review: Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa. Power, Mobility and the State by Tsourapas Gerasimos" . International Migration Review .
doi :
10.1177/01979183231213001 .
ISSN
0197-9183 .
^ Finn, Victoria (August 2022).
"Tsourapas, Gerasimos. 2021. Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, mobility and the state. Manchester University Press: Manchester. pp. 192" . International Migration . 60 (4): 231–233.
doi :
10.1111/imig.13020 .
ISSN
0020-7985 .
^ Nazir, Irfan Ahmed (December 2022).
"Gerasimos Tsourapas (2021). Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State . Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. Price: £85.00. 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5261-3209-3 (Hardback)" . Contemporary Review of the Middle East . 9 (4): 464–466.
doi :
10.1177/23477989221116446 .
ISSN
2347-7989 .
^ Awad, Ibrahim (2019).
"The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies by Gerasimos Tsourapas (review)" . The Middle East Journal . 73 (3): 495–496.
ISSN
1940-3461 .
^ Müller-Funk, Lea (2022-10-20).
"The politics of migration in modern Egypt: Strategies for regime survival in autocracies The politics of migration in modern Egypt: Strategies for regime survival in autocracies , by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 245 pp., GBP 75.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108475549: by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 245 pp., GBP 75.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108475549" . Mediterranean Politics . 27 (5): 678–680.
doi :
10.1080/13629395.2020.1840018 .
ISSN
1362-9395 .
^ Talani, Leila Simona (June 2020).
"The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies. By Gerasimos Tsourapas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 262p. $100.00 cloth" . Perspectives on Politics . 18 (2): 668–669.
doi :
10.1017/S1537592720000973 .
ISSN
1537-5927 .
^ Fábos, Anita H. (2021-02-19).
"The politics of migration in modern Egypt: strategies for regime survival in autocracies: by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xviii + 346 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1108475549" . Ethnic and Racial Studies . 44 (3): 480–482.
doi :
10.1080/01419870.2020.1787481 .
ISSN
0141-9870 .
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