Gerasimos Tsourapas
Tsourapas at the Wilson Center in 2023
Born	1982
Title	Editor-in-Chief, Migration Studies
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University London School of Economics and Political Science SOAS, University of London
Doctoral advisor	Laleh Khalili, Charles R. H. Tripp
Academic work
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 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' 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 other media.^[13]

Academic career

Tsourapas received an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Yale University (2006), where he was part of the Yale Dramatic Association, and compiled the Association's history as its archivist in 2004.^[14] Tsourapas also received an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007). He completed his PhD in Politics at SOAS, University of London (2016). In 2019–20, Tsourapas served as a Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.^[15] He joined the faculty of the School of Social & Political Science, University of Glasgow in 2021.

Selected publications

Books

• 2021. Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Review, by Damla B. Aksel, International Migration Review.
  • Review, by Victoria Finn, International Migration, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 231–33.
  • Review, by Irfan Ahmed Nazir, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 464–6.
• 2018. The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Review, by Ibrahim Awad, Middle East Journal, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 495–96.
  • Review, by Lea Müller-Funk, Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 678–80.
  • Review, by Leila Simona Talani, Perspectives on Politics, Vo. 18, No. 2, pp. 668–9.
  • Review, by Anita H. Fábos, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 480–2.

Articles

• 2023. "The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South." International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 1–14 (with Kamal Sadiq).
• 2023. "When Do States Repatriate Refugees? Evidence from the Middle East." Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1–18 (with Zeynep Sahin Mencütek).
• 2023. "Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa." Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 1–22 (with Asaf Siniver).
• 2022. "Leveraging the European Refugee Crisis: Forced Displacement and Bargaining in Greece’s Bailout Negotiations." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 60, Νο. 2, pp. 245–63 (with Sotirios Zartaloudis).
• 2021. "Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics." International Studies Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 616–44.
• 2021. "The Postcolonial Migration State." European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 884–912 (with Kamal Sadiq).
• 2021. "Refugee Commodification: The Diffusion of Refugee Rent-Seeking in the Global South." Third World Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2747–66 (with Luisa F. Freier and Nicholas R. Micinski).
• 2020. "The Long Arm of the Arab State." Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 351–70.
• 2020. "The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental, and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management." International Migration Review, Vol. 54, No. 3. pp. 853–82 (with Fiona B. Adamson).
• 2019. "The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey." Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 4. No. 4, pp. 464–81.
• 2019. "Migration Diplomacy in World Politics." International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 113–28 (with Fiona B. Adamson).
• 2018. "How Do Countries of Origin Engage Migrants and Diasporas? Multiple Actors & Comparative Perspectives." International Political Science Review, Vol. 39, No. 3. pp. 311–21 (with Maria Koinova).
• 2018. "Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean." International Studies Quarterly Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 383–95.

References

External links

• Gerasimos Tsourapas – University of Glasgow
• Gerasimos Tsourapas publications indexed by Google Scholar