Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation (Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.