Gerasimos Tsourapas Last updated September 16, 2025 Academic
Gerasimos Tsourapas
Born 1982 (age 42– 43) 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 FAcSS (born 1982) is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham . [ 1] [ 2] He is Editor-in-chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press ). [ 3] His research examines the international relations of the Middle East and broader Global South ,focusing on the politics of migrants,refugees,and diasporas. He has advanced the concepts of migration diplomacy ,migration interdependence,and refugee rentierism to analyse the political economy and foreign policy dimensions of cross-border mobility.
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 has received major research funding,including a European Research Council Starting Grant (2021),a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018),and a Carnegie Corporation of New York grant. [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
His research has informed policy debates and been cited in reports by the European Commission ,the United States Congress ,and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ,among others,and has been featured in international media such as The New York Times , The Economist ,the BBC ,and TAZ (die tageszeitung ) . [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
Career Tsourapas became 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham in 2025 and is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow ,where he held academic posts from 2021 to 2025, [ 17] most recently as Professor of International Relations. [ 18]
He was a Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies ,Harvard University ,in 2019–20. [ 19] He served as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2024, [ 20] and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo in 2024–25. [ 21] He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security at Tufts University . [ 22]
Tsourapas has held a number of elected positions in professional associations,including Chair of the Ethnicity,Nationalism,and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (2023–25),and Treasurer of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association (2017–19). [ 23] He was also an elected Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant ,a British Academy research institute (2019–22),where he served as Acting Honorary Treasurer and a member of the Research Sub-Committee. [ 24]
Awards In 2015,Tsourapas received the Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Middle East Studies Association for his research on labor migration and state power during the Arab Cold War . [ 25] The following year,his doctoral thesis was awarded the Best Dissertation Prize on Migration &Citizenship by the American Political Science Association . [ 26] In 2017,he won the Martin O. Heisler Award of the International Studies Association for the best paper presented by a graduate student at its Annual Convention,for research on labor migration and coercive migration diplomacy in the Arab world. [ 27] His first book,The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt:Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies ,received the 2020 Distinguished Book Award from the Ethnicity,Nationalism,and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association.
Selected publications Articles Fernández-Molina, Irene; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2024). "Understanding Migration Power in International Studies" . International Affairs . 100 (6): 2461– 2479. doi : 10.1093/ia/iiae230 . ISSN 1468-2346 . Sadiq, Kamal; Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2023). "The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South" . International Studies Quarterly . 67 (4) sqad088. doi : 10.1093/isq/sqad088 . ISSN 0020-8833 . 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– 128. doi :10.1093/isp/eky015 . 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 ↑ "Gerasimos Tsourapas" . University of Birmingham . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ Sciences, Academy of Social (2025-09-08). "The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 63 leading social scientists to its Fellowship this autumn" . Academy of Social Sciences . Retrieved 2025-09-10 . ↑ "Editorial Board" . Oxford Academic . Retrieved 2023-11-06 . ↑ "ENMISA Distinguished Book Award" . International Studies Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 . ↑ "ERC grant competitions 2021 - Final lists of researchers" . ERC . 2025-07-08. Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2018" . The British Academy . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "About our Project | Discover & Join Upcoming Migration Events" . Leir Projects . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "New EMN inform on migration diplomacy and global cooperation - European Commission" . home-affairs.ec.europa.eu . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "CECC Releases 2023 Annual Report | CECC" . www.cecc.gov . 2024-05-10. Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ https://rm.coe.int/transnational-repression-as-a-growing-threat-to-the-rule-of-law-and-hu/1680ab5b07 . ↑ "Tunisia's Influence in Europe (Published 2023)" . 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad" . The Economist . ISSN 0013-0613 . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel's 'We can do it' ten years ago to pulling up the drawbridge" . www.bbc.com . 2025-09-03. Retrieved 2025-09-10 . ↑ Jakob, Christian (2025-08-18). "Angst vor Geflüchteten: Milliardengeschäft für einige Staaten und Firmen" . Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085 . Retrieved 2025-09-10 . ↑ "Our History" . Yale Dramatic Association . Retrieved 2023-10-24 . ↑ "Gerasimos Tsourapas" . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . 2022-04-29. Retrieved 2024-01-21 . ↑ "New Politics & International Relations staff" . www.gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 2024-01-21 . ↑ "Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Glasgow" . ↑ "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 . ↑ "Professor Tsourapas Concludes Distinguished Appointment at AUC's Migration Center" . www.gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Senior Fellows – Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security" . sites.tufts.edu . Retrieved 2025-09-10 . ↑ "Officers and Bylaws – Migration and Citizenship (Section 43)" . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas" . CBRL . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Middle East Studies Association - MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Gerasimos Tsourapas" . Middle East Studies Association . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Awards – Migration and Citizenship (Section 43)" . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ "Martin O. Heisler Award [ ENMISA] " . www.isanet.org . Retrieved 2025-08-14 . ↑ 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 . External links
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