Gerasimos Tsourapas
Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the international politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East and the broader Global South.
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Paper freely available here: https://academic.oup.com/isr/article/23/3/616/5899220
Paper freely available here: https://academic.oup.com/isr/article/23/3/616/5899220
Original article available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/17/syrian-refugees-have-become-pawns-their-host-nations-politics/?utm_term=.5ae1a36a2d6a
https://theconversation.com/trumps-strategy-on-immigration-comes-straight-from-the-middle-east-playbook-72145
Papers on all issues related to the international politics of Middle East migration are welcome, including work on labour migration, refugees and forced migration, as well as transnationalism and diasporas. Papers on the following topics are of particular interest:
- The governance of Middle East migration
- European responses to “migration and refugee crises” and the rise of “migration deals”
- The politics of Middle East diasporas
- The management of African and South-Asian migrant populations in the Middle East
- Foreign policy, security and Middle East migration
- Authoritarian states’ responses to labour and forced migration in the region
The conference will begin with a keynote lecture by Professor Dawn Chatty (Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford; former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, 2011-2014), who will discuss her latest book, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (2018, Oxford University Press).
Please submit your proposed abstract (maximum 350 words) to g.tsourapas@bham.ac.uk by 14 December 2018. Funding is available to subsidise participants’ costs.
More details: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/political-science-international-studies/events/2018/11/Two-Day-British-Academy-conference-on-the-politics-of-Middle-East-migration.aspx