Gerasimos Tsourapas
Gerasimos Tsourapas is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Middle East Politics at the School of Government, University of Birmingham, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2019-20). His research focuses on the politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas in the broader Middle East.
He is currently the Principal Investigator in two research projects: “The International Politics of Middle East Migration: Problems, Policy, Practice,” funded by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018-19), and “Migration Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean – Inter-State Politics of Population Mobility in the Middle East,” funded by a Council for British Research in the Levant Pilot Grant (2017-19).
His research on migration has appeared in leading academic journals including International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies. He co-edited a special issue of International Political Science Review (with Maria Koinova) on ‘Diasporas and Sending States in World Politics’ (2018). His first book, The Politics of Egyptian Migration – Strategies for Survival in Autocracies, has been published by Cambridge University Press (2019).
