Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression in a comparative perspective. Authoritarian regimes in places like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are infamous for cracking down on domestic opposition movements and democracy activists at home. And, in our age of globalisation, migration and technological development, dictators are increasingly able to extend their authoritarian power over their critics abroad. Using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence, transnational repression threatens the lives of democracy defenders, the basic rights of diaspora members and the rule of law in host states.

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 Sklodowska-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 extra-territorial politics, international dimensions of democracy and global governance with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region of Central Asia. Her work on transnational repression has been published in top journals including European Journal of International Security, The International Journal of Human Rights and Political Research Exchange.