Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526179029)

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.

Author: Gerasimos Tsourapas
ISBN-10: 1526179024
ISBN-13: 9781526179029
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.40d