Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation

Dana M. Moss, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and a Faculty Fellow at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Research. To date, her research focuses primarily on collective action, state repression, authoritarianism, transnationalism, diasporas, and the Middle Eastern region. Her award-winning book, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2022), investigates how and to what extent anti-regime diaspora activists in the US and Britain mobilized to support the 2011 uprisings in Libya, Syria and Yemen. Her work has been published in a variety of venues, including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Mobilization: An International Journal, and Comparative Migration Studies. Saipira Furstenberg, PhD, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Research Fellow, at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice. Her project examines host states' responses to transnational repression. Saipira gained her PhD in Political Science from the University of Bremen in 2017. Prior to joining the University of Venice, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Portsmouth and a Research Associate at the University of Exeter. Her research examines international dimensions of authoritarian regimes, state repression, and human rights. Her work on transnational repression has been published in several leading journals, including European Journal of International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution and The International Journal of Human Rights.

In the 21st century, transnational repression threatens human rights protections, democracy, the rule of law and state sovereignty all across the globe. This book is truly one of a kind: it brings together an array of experts and provides an unparalleled comparative, global and systematic analysis of this complex phenomenon.

• List of Figures and TablesAbout the ContributorsIntroduction: Transnational Repression as a Growing Global Threat Dana M. Moss and Saipira FurstenbergPart I Conceptualising and Unpacking Transnational Repression1 Extraterritorial Practices of Authoritarian States: A Typology and MappingMarlies Glasius2 Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression in World PoliticsGerasimos Tsourapas3 Nowhere to Hide: Digital Transnational Repression against Exiled Activists from the Middle EastMarcus Michaelsen4 Transnational Repression, Non-state Authoritarianism and Diaspora PoliticsFiona AdamsonPart II Conditions and Causal Mechanisms Facilitating Transnational Repression over Time5 Autocratisation as a Facilitator of Transnational Repression in East and Southeast AsiaAlexander Dukalskis and Redmond Scales6 Biopolitics without Borders: China’s Racially Profiled Transnational Repression of the Uyghur PeopleSean R. Roberts7 How Diasporas Contribute to Authoritarian Governance: The Case of EritreaNicole Hirt and Abdulkader Saleh MohammadPart III Transnational Repression and the Role of Host Countries8 US-Philippine Relations and the Transnational Repression of Filipino American Activists during the Marcos DictatorshipSharon M. Quinsaat9 ‘Backdoor Extraditions’: How Authoritarian Regimes Manipulate the US Immigration System to Persecute Dissidents Sandra Grossman and Meg Hobbins10 Turkey’s Diasporic Landscapes amid Authoritarianism: Transnational Repression, Everyday Dynamics and Host-country ResponsesGözde Böcü, Bahar Baser and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk11 Transnational Repression and Migration Diplomacy: The Case of Italian-Egyptian RelationsSaipira Furstenberg, Alessandra Russo and Gillian KennedyPart IV Institutional Responses to Transnational Repression12 International Organisations as Tools of Transnational Repression: Strategies of Institutional Manipulation and ResistanceEdward Lemon13 Countering Transnational Repression Using International LawDon Picard and Dana M. MossConclusion: The Future of Transnational Repression Research and PolicyDana M. Moss and Saipira FurstenbergIndex