Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas
Small Group Project 2022-23
The Diplomacy of Forced Migration
This interdisciplinary project fills an important gap in our understanding of migration and foreign policy, including its evolution over time and its regional and geographic variation. The resulting dataset, case studies and mixed method analyses will be an important resource to policymakers and scholars of migration, international relations, diplomatic history, international law and forced migration studies.
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Sadiq, K., & Tsourapas, G. (2023).
The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South. International Studies Quarterly, 67(4).
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Biography
Gerasimos Tsourapas is 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations in the School of Government at the University of Birmingham. His research explores the international politics of migration, with a focus on how cross-border mobility shapes coercion, cooperation, and legitimation in world politics. His work often centres on the Middle East and the Global South, and contributes to broader debates on authoritarianism, symbolic power, and strategic statecraft.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), a leading journal in the field. He previously served as Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and as Treasurer of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He also served as an elected Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), a British Academy research institute, where he was Acting Honorary Treasurer and a member of the Research Sub-Committee.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), a leading journal in the field. He previously served as Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and as Treasurer of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He also served as an elected Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), a British Academy research institute, where he was Acting Honorary Treasurer and a member of the Research Sub-Committee.
Biographical details correct as of 27.04.26