Gerasimos Tsourapas

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.

Gerasimos Tsourapas
Tsourapas at the Wilson Center in 2023
Born	1982 (age 42–43)
Title	Editor-in-Chief, Migration Studies
Academic background
Education	Yale University (2006) London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc, 2007) SOAS, University of London (PhD, 2016)
Doctoral advisor	Laleh Khalili, Charles R. H. Tripp
Academic work
Discipline	Political Science
Main interests	migration diplomacy, refugees, diasporas, Middle East politics

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

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

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.