Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt - Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies

Examines how authoritarian regimes employ labour emigration in order to remain in power, both in Egypt and beyond.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

The Egyptian regime consistently employs labour emigration to their own advantage in order to remain in power. Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, Tsourapas identifies the complex strategies that authoritarian regimes develop to ensure that migration aids their survival and shows that cross-border mobility and power are inextricably linked.

Product details

• Authors: Gerasimos Tsourapas, Gerasimos (University of Birmingham) Tsourapas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108475549
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47554-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Egypt, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship