VIADUCT Research Award 2020 in the Field of Migration ('People')

The VIADUCT project has awarded Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) with the VIADUCT Research Award in the Field of Migration (‘People’) for his work on ‘The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey’ in the Journal of Global Security Studies, October 2019 (access here).

Dr. Athanasios Manis (ELIAMEP, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy) held the laudatory speech for Gerasimos Tsourapas in the framework of the VIADUCT Award Ceremony on 23 October 2020. He stressed that the research contributed to the understanding of migration diplomacy through the exploration of refugee rentier states. It was based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon with more than 80 interviews conducted.”