Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State

Migration diplomacy examines how migration is used as a tool for foreign policy in the Middle East, focusing on how states use migration to establish and maintain power, engage with migrant and diasporic communities, and leverage labor and forced migrants for political gain.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 192 pages
\n Publication date: 06 July 2021
\n Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Migration has become a significant feature in the diplomatic agendas of states across the Middle East. This phenomenon is explored in depth in Migration Diplomacy, a book by Dimitris Tsourapas. The author examines how migration-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 labor migration, and how labor 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.

The book sheds light on the complex dynamics between migration, power, and politics in the region, and offers valuable insights into the strategies employed by states to manage migration and its implications for regional stability and security. Migration Diplomacy is a must-read for scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the complex relationship between migration and international relations in the Middle East.

\n Weight: 448g\n
Dimension: 164 x 243 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526132093\n \n