Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow and Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies (ENMISA) Section of the International Studies Association. He is Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press). His research explores the international politics of authoritarianism, with particular emphasis on transnational repression, symbolic power, and migration control in the Global South. He is Principal Investigator of a five-year European Research Council project on migration diplomacy and has published widely on how regimes strategically instrumentalise cross-border mobility. His books include The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (Manchester University Press, 2021).