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How does migration feature in states' diplomatic agendas across the
Middle East? Migration diplomacy provides the first systematic
examination of the foreign policy importance of migrants, refugees
and diasporas in the Global South. Tsourapas examines how
emigration-related processes become embedded in governmental
practices of establishing and maintaining power; how states engage
with migrant and diasporic communities residing in the West; how
oil-rich Arab monarchies have extended their support for a number
of sending states' ruling regimes via cooperation on labour
migration; and, finally, how labour and forced migrants may serve
as instruments of political leverage. Drawing on multi-sited
fieldwork and employing a range of case-studies across the Middle
East and North Africa, Tsourapas identifies how the management of
cross-border mobility in the Middle East is not primarily dictated
by legal, moral, or human rights considerations but driven by state
actors' key concern - political power. -- .
In this ground-breaking work, Gerasimos Tsourapas examines how
migration and political power are inextricably linked, and enhances
our understanding of how authoritarian regimes rely on labour
emigration across the Middle East and the Global South. Dr
Tsourapas identifies how autocracies develop strategies to tie
cross-border mobility to their own survival, highlighting domestic
political struggles and the shifting regional and international
landscape. In Egypt, the ruling elite has long shaped labour
emigration policy in accordance with internal and external tactics
aimed at regime survival. Dr Tsourapas draws on a wealth of
previously-unavailable archival sources in Arabic and English, as
well as extensive original interviews with Egyptian elites and
policy-makers in order to produce a novel account of authoritarian
politics in the Arab world. The book offers a new insight into the
evolution and political rationale behind regime strategies towards
migration, from Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 Revolution to the 2011
Arab Uprisings.
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