The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt

Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvGerasimos Tsourapas

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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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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-18
Mått153 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108468640

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Gerasimos Tsourapas is a Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this, he was a Senior Teaching Fellow in International Relations at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a Visiting Graduate Scholar at the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University of Cairo. He has received the 2017 Martin O. Heisler Award of the International Studies Association for work on the politics of migration interdependence in the Middle East. His forthcoming book is entitled Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East: Egyptians Abroad and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mors.

1. Introduction; 2. 'Egyptians don't emigrate' – the domestic politics of migration restriction, 1952–1970; 3. Exporting the free officers' revolution – migration and external regime legitimacy under Nasser; 4. 'Our most precious asset' – the domestic politics of migration liberalisation, 1970–2011; 5. The rich hive invaded by foreign bees' – migration and external regime legitimacy under Sadat and Mubarak; 6. Egypt's road to the 'Arab spring'; 7. Conclusion.

'Labour immigration policies have been largely researched but not their counterpart emigration policies. In this book, Gerasimos Tsourapas fills this void, theorising and bringing out the political rationale of these policies over three articulations of Egyptian authoritarianism between the 1950s and 2011. Based on impressive primary and secondary sources, the book will be essential material for researchers in migration studies, Egyptian politics and politics of authoritarianism more generally.' Ibrahim Awad, The American University in Cairo