Tsourapas, G. (2018) The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108475549 (doi: 10.1017/9781108630313)
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Books |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Tsourapas, Professor Gerasimos |
| Authors: | Tsourapas, G. |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9781108475549 |
| Published Online: | 20 December 2018 |
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