Abstract
Despite a recent resurgence in research on the politics of migration, foreign policy analysts have yet to approach cross-border population mobility as a distinct field of inquiry. Particularly within the Global South, scant work has theorised the interplay between migration and interstate bargaining. This article proposes the framework of migration diplomacy to examine how mobility features in states’ issue-linkage strategies, in both cooperative and coercive contexts. Drawing on Arabic, French and English primary sources, it empirically demonstrates the salience of its framework through an analysis of Libya’s migration diplomacy towards its Arab, African and European neighbours under Muammar Gaddafi.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2367-2385 |
| Journal | Third World Quarterly |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 28 Jul 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 28 Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Middle East
- Libya
- issue linkage
- migration diplomacy
- leverage
- migration and refugees
- Mediterranean
- cooperation and coercion
- transit migration
- Gaddafi
- Qaddafi
Access to Document
- Tsourapas_Migration_diplomacy_in_the_TWQ_2017
Checked for eligibility: 25/04/2018 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Quarterly on 28/07/2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1350102