Fiona B. Adamson is a Reader in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on the international politics of migration, diaspora and transnationalism and has appeared in journals such as International Security, European Journal of International Relations, International Migration Review, International Studies Review, Journal of Global Security Studies, Current History, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Global Networks and Political Science Quarterly. She is a member of the European Union Horizon 2020 Project “Migration Governance and Asylum Crises” (MAGYC) and co-convenor of the London Migration Research Group (LMRG).

Gerasimos Tsourapas works on the politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East and the broader Global South. He has also written on the international dimension of authoritarianism. His first book, The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt – Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies (Cambridge University Press, 2019), was awarded the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award by the International Studies Association. Gerasimos has published in International Studies Quarterly, International Migration Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other leading journals.