The politics of migration in modern Egypt strategies for regime survival in autocracies

"Research on Egyptian politics has long-highlighted an economic rationale behind the President's 1971 decision to lift all emigration restrictions, and to move away from earlier attempts at tight controls: given the penurious state of the Egyptian economy, the argument goes, labour emigrat...

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1. Verfasser: Tsourapas, Gerasimos (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2019
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  • Introduction. 'Egyptians don't emigrate' : the domestic politics of migration restriction, 1952-1970. Exporting the Free Officers' revolution : migration & external regime legitimacy under Nasser. 'Our most precious asset' : the domestic politics of migration liberalisation, 1970-2011. 'The rich hive invaded by foreign bees' : migration & external regime legitimacy under Sadat and Mubarak. Egypt's road to the "Arab Spring"