Gerasimos Tsourapas is a lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Birmingham. His first book, “The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt – Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies,” was published by Cambridge University Press. Follow him on Twitter @gtsourapas. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/gerasimos-tsourapas/rss en Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:00:00 +0000 Gerasimos Tsourapas https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/02/13/how-migration-deals-lead-to-refugee-commodification https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/02/13/how-migration-deals-lead-to-refugee-commodification The trend toward ‘compacts’ encourages overburdened host states to treat refugee populations as sources of economic rent, with serious implications for refugee protection, writes researcher Gerasimos Tsourapas.