Gerasimos Tsourapas

Gerasimos Tsourapas is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham, and Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press). His research examines how states use cross-border mobility as an instrument of international power, drawing on comparative work across the Middle East and the broader Global South. He is the author of The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt – Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa – Power, Mobility, and the State (Manchester University Press, 2021). His work has also appeared in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Migration Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other leading journals.