Gerasimos Tsourapas

Gerasimos Tsourapas FAcSS (born 1982) is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham. He is Editor-in-chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press). 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. 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.

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) .