{"product_id":"migration-diplomacy-gerasimos-tsourapas-9781526132093","title":"Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerasimos Tsourapas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526132095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526132093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Gerasimos Tsourapas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991459758335,"sku":"9781526132093","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b1bb1ca-90fa-446f-84d7-6382df9456e8.jpg?v=1683310425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/migration-diplomacy-gerasimos-tsourapas-9781526132093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}