Gerasimos Tsourapas
@tsourapas.bsky.social
migration, diplomacy, and overanalyzing everything ∙ 🇬🇷 professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social ∙ editor-in-chief @migrationjrnl.bsky.social ∙ FAcSS SFHEA ∙ 🏃🏻♂️🌍
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How do states make their refugee policies look responsible to the world, and what does that performance achieve? I examine these dynamics in Uganda, Egypt, and Bangladesh, and across other Global North and South cases in my open-access Journal of Refugee Studies article.
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
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EU Commission proposes first annual migration policy cycle, under the asylum pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Also proposes a two-year plan for resettlement of refugees/humanitarian admission, as provided for in the pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Also proposes a two-year plan for resettlement of refugees/humanitarian admission, as provided for in the pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission launches first Annual Migration Management Cycle under the Pact on Migration and Asylum
Today, the European Commission is taking a further step in implementing the Pact on Migration and Asylum by launching the first Annual Migration Management Cycle.
ec.europa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
EU Commission proposes first annual migration policy cycle, under the asylum pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Also proposes a two-year plan for resettlement of refugees/humanitarian admission, as provided for in the pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Also proposes a two-year plan for resettlement of refugees/humanitarian admission, as provided for in the pact - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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📢 @jamesrdennison.bsky.social, @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & Mariana Carmo Duarte: Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📢 @jamesrdennison.bsky.social, @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & Mariana Carmo Duarte: Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550
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So nice to have @rachelhumphris.bsky.social back at IRIS for a day! On 5 November (4-5.30pm) Rachel will present her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book "Making Sanctuary Cities". To book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So nice to have @rachelhumphris.bsky.social back at IRIS for a day! On 5 November (4-5.30pm) Rachel will present her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book "Making Sanctuary Cities". To book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...
How do states make their refugee policies look responsible to the world, and what does that performance achieve? I examine these dynamics in Uganda, Egypt, and Bangladesh, and across other Global North and South cases in my open-access Journal of Refugee Studies article.
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How do states make their refugee policies look responsible to the world, and what does that performance achieve? I examine these dynamics in Uganda, Egypt, and Bangladesh, and across other Global North and South cases in my open-access Journal of Refugee Studies article.
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
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Migration diplomacy at work: Belgium has endorsed Morocco's autonomy proposal for the territory of Western Sahara. The move coincides with a migration-return agreement and expansion of trade ties.
Check @tsourapas.bsky.social for more on this topic.
www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-stri...
Check @tsourapas.bsky.social for more on this topic.
www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-stri...
Belgium and Morocco strengthen ties with agreement on migrant returns and Western Sahara
Following in the footsteps of France, Germany, the United States and the European Union, Belgium has now formally declared its support for...
www.belganewsagency.eu
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Migration diplomacy at work: Belgium has endorsed Morocco's autonomy proposal for the territory of Western Sahara. The move coincides with a migration-return agreement and expansion of trade ties.
Check @tsourapas.bsky.social for more on this topic.
www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-stri...
Check @tsourapas.bsky.social for more on this topic.
www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-stri...
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🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
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The dates for the next Migration Winter Academy are official!📌 And early bird applications close on 5 October
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
October 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The dates for the next Migration Winter Academy are official!📌 And early bird applications close on 5 October
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
👉 For policy analysts, private sector professionals, international organisation officials, civil servants, NGO and representatives, researchers, and journalists.
loom.ly/UA6vlfE
📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe
@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!
🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!
🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe
@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!
🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!
🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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Meet our Fellow @tsourapas.bsky.social, 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Gerasimos’ research focuses on migration diplomacy including refugee politics & the securitisation of migration.
Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-ge...
Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-ge...
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Meet our Fellow @tsourapas.bsky.social, 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of International Relations at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Gerasimos’ research focuses on migration diplomacy including refugee politics & the securitisation of migration.
Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-ge...
Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-ge...
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Migration binds states together: host states need workers to fill critical sectors, sending states need remittances and employment opportunities. This creates interdependences that can be used strategically.
Read @tsourapas.bsky.social on the Co-Lab.
migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/09/25/l...
Read @tsourapas.bsky.social on the Co-Lab.
migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/09/25/l...
How can labour migration empower the Global South? - Co-Lab
This short discusses how labour migration creates leverage for sending states: as they can get concessions, protections, and influence.
migrationresearchtopolicy.eu
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Migration binds states together: host states need workers to fill critical sectors, sending states need remittances and employment opportunities. This creates interdependences that can be used strategically.
Read @tsourapas.bsky.social on the Co-Lab.
migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/09/25/l...
Read @tsourapas.bsky.social on the Co-Lab.
migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/09/25/l...
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Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...
2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe
academic.oup.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...
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We are excited to release our first annual editorial report, covering 2024! Publishing data on submissions and decisions, as well as explaining policy changes, is part of our commitment to transparency. Link: static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/migra... #migcitsky #polisky #econsky #socsky
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
We are excited to release our first annual editorial report, covering 2024! Publishing data on submissions and decisions, as well as explaining policy changes, is part of our commitment to transparency. Link: static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/migra... #migcitsky #polisky #econsky #socsky
My comment with BBC InDepth, ten years after “Wir schaffen das,” and how migration diplomacy has become contagious.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My comment with BBC InDepth, ten years after “Wir schaffen das,” and how migration diplomacy has become contagious.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
My latest #OpenAccess in IMR: why and when states adopt different #MigrationDiplomacy strategies. The article advances the concept of migration interdependence via a two-axis typology showing when cooperation, coercion, or other choices become viable.
Take a look: doi.org/10.1177/0197... #migcitsky
Take a look: doi.org/10.1177/0197... #migcitsky
September 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My latest #OpenAccess in IMR: why and when states adopt different #MigrationDiplomacy strategies. The article advances the concept of migration interdependence via a two-axis typology showing when cooperation, coercion, or other choices become viable.
Take a look: doi.org/10.1177/0197... #migcitsky
Take a look: doi.org/10.1177/0197... #migcitsky
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Read how the U.S. systematically externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers.
Open access in Migration Studies.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
Open access in Migration Studies.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
Remote biopower: Constructing the system of immigrant health controls
Abstract. The selection of migrants based on judgments about their health was a fundamental driver of state migration controls. The USA was a global leader
doi.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Read how the U.S. systematically externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers.
Open access in Migration Studies.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
Open access in Migration Studies.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
I am excited to welcome two brilliant, fully-funded PhD researchers to @uofglasgow.bsky.social this autumn to work on different aspects of migration politics @uofglasgow.bsky.social.
Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵
Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵
June 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I am excited to welcome two brilliant, fully-funded PhD researchers to @uofglasgow.bsky.social this autumn to work on different aspects of migration politics @uofglasgow.bsky.social.
Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵
Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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"Russia was not on Trump's tariff list, despite running a $2.5bn goods trade surplus last year, according to the US Trade Representative's office."
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Russia was not on Trump's tariff list, despite running a $2.5bn goods trade surplus last year, according to the US Trade Representative's office."
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March 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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“Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision”
Just when you thought there wasn’t any boot left to lick, Columbia finds even more ways to comply.
Just when you thought there wasn’t any boot left to lick, Columbia finds even more ways to comply.
Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.
apnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision”
Just when you thought there wasn’t any boot left to lick, Columbia finds even more ways to comply.
Just when you thought there wasn’t any boot left to lick, Columbia finds even more ways to comply.
Warm congratulations, Elena, for these new roles! This is richly deserved, and a great fit for her important work on forced migration.
Some professional news: I am happy to have been accepted as an Affiliate of the @refugeelawclinic.bsky.social and to soon participate in two excellent working groups: Border Externalization and Feminist Theory, Refugees, and Displacement. Everyone has been so welcoming
rli.sas.ac.uk/people/elena...
rli.sas.ac.uk/people/elena...
Elena Habersky
PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow
rli.sas.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Warm congratulations, Elena, for these new roles! This is richly deserved, and a great fit for her important work on forced migration.
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🌍 Migration between #MENA and the #EU is evolving. What challenges and opportunities lie ahead?
⚠️ Don’t miss this crucial discussion with experts @federicazardo.bsky.social @tsourapas.bsky.social @helhahn.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Mar, 14:00–15:30 GMT 📍 Online
#MENAsky #IRsky #polisky #migcitsky
⚠️ Don’t miss this crucial discussion with experts @federicazardo.bsky.social @tsourapas.bsky.social @helhahn.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Mar, 14:00–15:30 GMT 📍 Online
#MENAsky #IRsky #polisky #migcitsky
From the MENA to the EU: Migration diplomacy, challenges and opportunities
ECPR Webinar on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌍 Migration between #MENA and the #EU is evolving. What challenges and opportunities lie ahead?
⚠️ Don’t miss this crucial discussion with experts @federicazardo.bsky.social @tsourapas.bsky.social @helhahn.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Mar, 14:00–15:30 GMT 📍 Online
#MENAsky #IRsky #polisky #migcitsky
⚠️ Don’t miss this crucial discussion with experts @federicazardo.bsky.social @tsourapas.bsky.social @helhahn.bsky.social
📅 Thu 20 Mar, 14:00–15:30 GMT 📍 Online
#MENAsky #IRsky #polisky #migcitsky
Congratulations, @liliantsourdi.bsky.social and all!
It looks incredibly interesting!
It looks incredibly interesting!
Our SI w/ @federicazardo.bsky.social on #migration governance through funding now published in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies! In the intro doi.org/10.1080/1556... we advance a typology & scrutinise transparency, accountability & effectiveness impacts @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Congratulations, @liliantsourdi.bsky.social and all!
It looks incredibly interesting!
It looks incredibly interesting!