Gerasimos Tsourapas Explained

Gerasimos Tsourapas
Editor-in-Chief, Migration Studies
Doctoral Advisor:	Laleh Khalili,Charles R. H. Tripp
Discipline:	Political Science
Main Interests:	migration diplomacy, refugees, diasporas, Middle East politics
Education:	Yale University (2006) London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc, 2007) SOAS, University of London (PhD, 2016)

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

• Book: Tsourapas, Gerasimos . Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State . 2021 . . 978-1-5261-3209-3 . Manchester. ^{[19] [20] [21]}
• Book: Tsourapas, Gerasimos . The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies . 2018 . . 978-1-108-63031-3 . 10.1017/9781108630313. ^{[22] [23] [24] [25]}

Articles

• Sadiq . Kamal . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2023 . The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South . . en . 67 . 4 . 10.1093/isq/sqad088 . 0020-8833.
• Şahin-Mencütek . Zeynep . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2023 . When Do States Repatriate Refugees? Evidence from the Middle East . . 8 . 1 . 10.1093/jogss/ogac031 . 2057-3170.
• Siniver . Asaf . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2023 . Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa . Foreign Policy Analysis . 19 . 2 . 10.1093/fpa/orac041 . 1743-8586.
• Tsourapas . Gerasimos . Zartaloudis . Sotirios . 2022 . Leveraging the European Refugee Crisis: Forced Displacement and Bargaining in Greece's Bailout Negotiations . . en . 60 . 2 . 245–263 . 10.1111/jcms.13211 . 0021-9886.
• Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2021 . Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics . . 23 . 3 . 616–644 . 10.1093/isr/viaa061 . free .
• Sadiq . Kamal . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2021 . The Postcolonial Migration State . . en . 27 . 3 . 884–912 . 10.1177/13540661211000114 . 1354-0661.
• Freier . Luisa F. . Micinski . Nicholas R. . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2021 . Refugee Commodification: The Diffusion of Refugee Rent-Seeking in the Global South . . en . 42 . 11 . 2747–2766 . 10.1080/01436597.2021.1956891 . 0143-6597.
• Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2020 . The Long Arm of the Arab State . . en . 43 . 2 . 351–370 . 10.1080/01419870.2019.1585558 . 0141-9870.
• Adamson . Fiona B. . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2020 . The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental, and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management . . en . 54 . 3 . 853–882 . 10.1177/0197918319879057 . 0197-9183.
• Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2019 . The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey . . 4 . 4 . 464–481 . 10.1093/jogss/ogz016 . 2024-01-20 .
• Adamson . Fiona B . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2019 . Migration Diplomacy in World Politics . . 20 . 2 . 113–12 . 10.1093/isp/eky015 .
• Koinova . Maria . Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2018 . How Do Countries of Origin Engage Migrants and Diasporas? Multiple Actors and Comparative Perspectives . . en . 39 . 3 . 311–321 . 10.1177/0192512118755843 . 0192-5121.
• Tsourapas . Gerasimos . 2018 . Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean . . 62 . 2 . 383–395 . 10.1093/isq/sqx088 .

External links

• Gerasimos Tsourapas – University of Glasgow

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas . 2023-10-24 . . en.
2. Web site: ENMISA Governance and Leadership . 2023-10-24 . International Studies Association.
3. Web site: Editorial Board . 2023-11-06 . . en.
4. Web site: ENMISA Distinguished Book Award . 2023-10-24 . International Studies Association.
5. Web site: 2022-01-22 . ERC grant competitions 2021: Final lists of researchers offered funding . 2024-01-21 . . en.
6. Web site: Small Group Projects . 2024-01-21 . Independent Social Research Foundation . en-GB.
7. Web site: BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2018 . 2023-10-24 . . en.
8. Web site: MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Gerasimos Tsourapas . 2023-10-24 . . en.
9. 2016 . 2016 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented . PS: Political Science & Politics . en . 49 . 4 . 942–960 .
10. Web site: Martin O. Heisler Award [ENMISA] ]. 2023-10-24 . International Studies Association.
11. News: Jackson . Lauren . 2023-04-05 . Tunisia’s Influence in Europe . subscription . 2023-11-08 . . en-US . 0362-4331.
12. News: 2021-02-04 . Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad . subscription . 2023-11-08 . . 0013-0613.
13. Web site: Doran . Benjamin Hindrichs und Aoife . 2022-01-07 . Flüchtlinge als Ware sind die neue Normalität . 2023-11-08 . Krautreporter . de.
14. Web site: Our History . 2023-10-24 . Yale Dramatic Association.
15. Web site: 2022-04-29 . Gerasimos Tsourapas . 2024-01-21 . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . en-US.
16. Web site: Gerasimos Tsourapas . 2023-10-24 . . . en.
17. Web site: Science . London School of Economics and Political . Gerasimos Tsourapas . 2024-04-27 . London School of Economics and Political Science . en-GB.
18. Web site: New Politics & International Relations staff . 2024-01-21 . www.gla.ac.uk . en.
19. 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 . en . 10.1177/01979183231213001 . 0197-9183.
20. 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 . en . 60 . 4 . 231–233 . 10.1111/imig.13020 . 0020-7985.
21. 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 . en . 9 . 4 . 464–466 . 10.1177/23477989221116446 . 2347-7989.
22. 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 . 1940-3461.
23. 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 . en . 27 . 5 . 678–680 . 10.1080/13629395.2020.1840018 . 1362-9395.
24. 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 . en . 18 . 2 . 668–669 . 10.1017/S1537592720000973 . 1537-5927.
25. 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 . en . 44 . 3 . 480–482 . 10.1080/01419870.2020.1787481 . 0141-9870.