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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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 · 6d

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

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 · 27d

Congrats, Lisel! Wonderful to see this out!

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Sep 2

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 · Jun 9

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...

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 · Jun 9

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...

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Jun 9

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...

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Jun 9

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 · Apr 10

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 · Apr 3

"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 · Mar 25

ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU

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

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

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · Mar 24

Istanbul protest image destined for book covers

📸 Ümit Bektaş, @reuters.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Mar 21

“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.

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

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...

Elena Habersky

PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Mar 17

🌍 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

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 · Mar 15

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

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Feb 21

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 · Feb 16

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...

Sharp-Migration Blackmail (JESP).pdf

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Feb 17

Congratulations, @deeesharp.bsky.social! It looks great, I look forward to reading with interest.

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · Feb 8

🚨 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 · Feb 4

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 · Feb 3

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.

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 · Dec 11

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...

PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

employment.ku.dk

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