Gerasimos Tsourapas

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.

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.

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...

📢 @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

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...

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

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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/...

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...

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...

Conference social media card with the BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, submission deadline: 3 November, conference.bisa.ac.uk

🎉 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

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

📣 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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'.

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

Congrats, Lisel! Wonderful to see this out!

My comment with BBC InDepth, ten years after “Wir schaffen das,” and how migration diplomacy has become contagious.

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

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

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...

Sondos Mahfouz will examine how authoritarian regimes use migration to consolidate power, focusing on Egypt and Jordan. She is funded by the School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsps.bsky.social, co-supervised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social. Follow her work here: www.linkedin.com/in/sondos-ma...

Dean Ross explores how immigration is shaped by nationalist politics in stateless regions, focusing on Scotland & Catalonia. He is funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science @sgsss.bsky.social, and co-supervised with Ian Paterson. Connect with him here: www.linkedin.com/in/dean-ross...

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! 🧵

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

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.

"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."

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

ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Istanbul protest image destined for book covers

📸 Ümit Bektaş, @reuters.com

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.

“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.

Warm congratulations, Elena, for these new roles! This is richly deserved, and a great fit for her important work on forced migration.

From the MENA to the EU: Migration diplomacy, challenges and opportunities ECPR Webinar on Middle Eastern Policy and EU Relations

🌍 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

Congratulations, @liliantsourdi.bsky.social and all!
It looks incredibly interesting!

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...