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Gerasimos Tsourapas

@tsourapas.bsky.social
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migration, diplomacy, and overanalyzing everything ∙ 🇬🇷 professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social ∙ editor-in-chief @migrationjrnl.bsky.social ∙ FAcSS SFHEA ∙ 🏃🏻‍♂️🌍

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our edited volume "Migration Power Europe" is out, open access! 12 chapters, 20 contributors, on what Brussels rarely says aloud: that migration governance is an exercise of power. Many thanks @mpc-eui.bsky.social ky.social @irenefmolina.bsky.social 📕 Free to download: tinyurl.com/bdd9k2nr
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I am happy to share our new, open-access article in International Political Sociology: how enforced disappearance in Libya became a durable tool of authoritarian rule, from Italian colonial rule through Gaddafi to today. With Walid Ali & Iosif Kovras. Available here: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I am pleased to contribute to the search for an Associate Professor in the IR of the Global South at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk @politicsoxford.bsky.social. We seek outstanding scholars, maintaining broad openness on regional focus & method. Details: rb.gy/iosyrq Closes: 7 April 2026.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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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.
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📢 @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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IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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/...
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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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...
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🎉 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
Conference social media card with the BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, submission deadline: 3 November, conference.bisa.ac.uk
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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📣 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...
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
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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.
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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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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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
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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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
A summary of key points from the first Migration Studies annual report covering calendar year 2024: submissions rise by 71%, with nearly half of them coming from Europe and Central Asia; about 10% acceptance rate; first decisions (whether sent out for external review or not) taking less time; the two-year impact factor rose to 2.7; and special issue topics included 'living with difference in cities' and 'unusual places of sanctuary and refuge'.
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My comment with BBC InDepth, ten years after “Wir schaffen das,” and how migration diplomacy has become contagious. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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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
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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! 🧵
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"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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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
researchprofessionalnews.com
ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU - Research Professional News
Commission also planning a dedicated meeting to coordinate similar efforts among member states
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Istanbul protest image destined for book covers 📸 Ümit Bektaş, @reuters.com
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“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.
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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.
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🌍 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
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From the MENA to the EU: Migration diplomacy, challenges and opportunities
ECPR Webinar on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Congratulations, @liliantsourdi.bsky.social and all! It looks incredibly interesting!
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Happy to share my latest, open-access article in International Migration! 📢 I introduce a three-level game framework to migration diplomacy through an in-depth look at the 2020 Greek-Turkish border crisis. Also included: a first-ever video abstract (be kind!). Read here: doi.org/10.1111/imig...
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A copyedited preprint of my paper "Can States Resist Migration Blackmail While Protecting Migrants?", forthcoming in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, is now available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1UIRe...
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Sharp-Migration Blackmail (JESP).pdf
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨 We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social. 📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq 🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Great discussions on Arab diaspora politics at this fantastic conference in Paris! I am grateful to @carepparis.bsky.social, @arabreforminit.bsky.social for their hospitality, and their crucial work on migration, exile, and transnational politics. More details👇 www.arab-reform.net/event/from-r...
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Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump's tariffs are part of the wider phenomenon of Hardball Migration Diplomacy. This is not new. Trump used threats in his first term. And the EU, Bush, and Obama also used visa sanctions and threats to get states to cooperate on deportations and other migration policies.
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Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on ...
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Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A lesson from Syria on refugee protection: “The recent escalation of violence in Aleppo and elsewhere proves that a long, unresolved, simmering conflict can erupt into full hostilities, a caution against premature refugee returns.” My thoughts on repatriating refugees: www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
hrw.org
The Need to Continue Protecting Syrian Refugees
The sudden escalation of fighting in Syria, as armed groups make serious advancements, carries an important lesson about refugee protection.
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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
👇 New article in International Affairs where we theoretically dissect and map where and how power operates in the governance of international migration – co-authored with @tsourapas.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I am very proud of our journal's transition to triple-blind review! 🎉 We aim to tackle status bias and support equity in publishing by ensuring that under-represented and minority scholars are evaluated based solely on their work. Removing author names and affiliations is a major step forward.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 30/11/2024
The ever changing light is what makes Patagonia so very special. In Torres del Paine, a spot lit iceberg is dwarfed by mountains in the shade, except the jagged summit, bathed in the warm afternoon sun. 📷🦋 #photography #nature #landscape #bluesky #sunset #naturephotography #landscapephotography
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024
Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
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Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky
Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.
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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Finland is cited here as an example of an EU country using "coercive migration diplomacy" and "negative conditionality in cross-sectoral approach". Fair enough as the government just cancelled its development aid programme for Somalia (including support for improving the health of girls and women).
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thrilled to see the OECD & EMN publish this in-depth report on migration diplomacy, drawing on concepts and frameworks I’ve worked on over the years. Essential reading for those interested in migration, policy & international relations. 🔗 shorturl.at/lVPhk #MigrationDiplomacy #migcitsky #Migration
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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What are the disparities between asylum seekers and other immigrants in the labor market? In our latest issue, @lorrainewongmw.bsky.social revisits this long-standing question using administrative data from Switzerland. doi.org/10.1093/migr...
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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Christiana Essie Sagay @christianasagay.com · 13/11/2024
How have issue linkages featured in the framing of a transnational labour mobility regime? TWAIL-ing the Global Compact for Migration, I attempt to answer this question. Read the full article on @TWAILReview here bit.ly/4htIboW
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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As more people join this platform and migcitsky, we'd like to reintroduce ourselves 👋 We welcome submissions about all migration themes from anywhere in the world. You can submit in any style and referencing system (we're "format free") and reference lists don't count towards our 10k word limit.
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 Few Days Left! 🚨 We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral fellow for our @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Fletcher project, “Securitization without Security: How Migration is Shaping the Global Order”, funded by Carnegie. #migcitsky 📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 📍 Location: Medford, MA apply.interfolio.com/157756
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Laura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
go.bsky.app/PLhHQgR
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