Gerasimos Tsourapas | |
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 Tsourapas at the Wilson Center in 2023 | |
| Born | 1982 (age 42–43) |
| Title | Editor-in-Chief, Migration Studies |
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| Doctoral advisor | Laleh Khalili, Charles R. H. Tripp |
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| 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.
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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]
