New Books: January 2025

January 2025:

Janet Mancini Billson, Refugee Pathways to Peace: Escaping the Chaos of War, Lexington Books, Jan. 2025

- Focuses on resettlement to Canada.

Debórah Dwork, Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis, W.W. Norton, Jan. 2025

Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo & Christoph Sperfeldt, eds., Statelessness in Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

December 2024:

Amelie Harbisch, Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible: Practices of the Subject, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Hafize Zehra Kavak, Understanding Humanitarian Diplomacy: Principles and Practice, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Legal texts:

Petrice R. Flowers, Refugee Policies in East Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

Patricia Rushton, Sovereignty, Migration and the Law: The Exclusion of Non-Citizens, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework, Routledge, Jan. 2025

Open access:

Ragini Shah, Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2024

Jakub Bijak, ed., From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2024

Francesca Piana, Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War, Leiden University Press, Dec. 2024

New Books: December 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in December 2024, while Part 2 lists additional November 2024 titles as well as new open access texts.

December 2024:

Samuel J. Spiegel, Blessing Mucherera, Sidra Idrees, Francesco Moze, Kanak Rajadhyaksha Boel McAteer, Thabani Mutambasere, Georgia Cole, Jean-Benoit Falisse & Savan Qadir, Displacement, Borders, and Unsettling Narratives: Critical Directions for Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Adam Lichtenheld, Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko & Maggy Lee, eds., Handbook on Border Criminology, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2024

Marco d’Errico, Donato Romano & Paul Winters, eds., How Close is Close? Assessing Uganda’s Progressive Refugee Policy in the Era of COVID-19, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Mohamed Elmi, Wendy Cukier, Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi & Guang Ying Mo, eds., Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Núria Carrete-Marín & Francesc Buscà, Physical Activity and Sport as Social Inclusion Tool for Refugees: A Pedagogical Approach, Springer, Dec. 2024

Lena El-Malak, Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees, I.B. Tauris, Dec. 2024

Mary Bosworth, Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control, Princeton Univ. Press, Dec. 2024 

William Plowright, The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis, Cornell Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

New Books: December 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

November 2024:

Susan Banki, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists, Cornell Univ. Press, Nov. 2024

Hildegunn Fandrem & James O’Higgins Norman, eds., International Perspectives on Migration, Bullying, and School: Implications for Schools, Refugees, and Migrants, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Philip Brown, Santokh Gill & Jamie P. Halsall, Refugees and Housing: Policy, Practice and Lived Experience, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2024 

Menşure Alkiş Küçükaydin, Hakan Ulum & Ömer Gökhan Ulum, eds., Silencing Refugees’ Voices in Educational Practices: Perspectives on School Textbooks, Nov. 2024

Volha Charnysh, Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2024

Open access:

Ben Laws, Asylum and Nonreligion: Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Stefan Arnold & Bettina Heiderhoff, eds., Children in Migration and International Family Law: The Child’s Best Interests Principle at the Interface of Migration Law and Family Law, Springer, Dec. 2024

Eleanor Paynter, Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2024 

Anne White, Polish Cities of Migration: The Migration Transition in Kalisz, Piła and Płock, UCL Press, Nov. 2024

Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach & Max Walden, eds., Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2024

S Irudaya Rajan, ed., South Asia Migration Report 2024: Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Vanessa Agnew, ed., What We Brought with Us: Things of Exile and Migration, transcript Verlag, Oct. 2024

New Books: November 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in November 2024 along with additional October 2024 titles, while Part 2 lists new open access texts.

November 2024:

Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Assessing the Common European Asylum System: Discretionary Implementation and Street-Level Bureaucracy, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2024

Emanuel Deutschmann, Lucas G. Drouhot, Carolina V. Zuccotti & Emilio Zagheni, eds., Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Susan Banki, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists, Cornell Univ. Press, Nov. 2024

Laura Kromják & Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović, eds., Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Communities, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Maria-Artemis Kolliniati, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Asylum Centers in Greece and Philosophical Values, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Lina Caswell Muñoz & Sarah Diaz , eds., Kids in Cages: Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention, Univ. of Arizona Press, Nov. 2024

- Focuses on the US.

Nadeera Ranabahu, Huibert P. de Vries & Robert T. Hamilton, eds., Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Maria Sophia Aguirre & Antonio Argandoña, eds., The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ranabir Samaddar, eds., Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas, SUNY Press, Nov. 2024

October 2024:

William L. Allen & Carlos Vargas-Silva, eds., Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Oct. 2024

- Note: Chapters 1, 6, 9 and 13 are free to access.

Mojib Rahman Atal, Institutional Violence against Afghan Refugees: An Analysis of Violence in Institutions in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden from a Comparative Perspective, Springer, Oct. 2024

Rui Alexandre Novais & Carlos Arcila Calderón, eds., Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2024 

Mohamad Zreik, The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Lebanon's Economic Landscape: The Impact of Forced Migration on GDP, Unemployment, Inflation and Trade, Springer, Oct. 2024

New Books: November 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Open access:

Luc Leboeuf, Cathrine Brun, Hilde Lidén, Sabrina Marchetti, Delphine Nakache & Sylvie Sarolea, eds., Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies, Springer, Oct. 2024

Natalie Brinham, Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Lorenzo Guadagno & Lisette R. Robles, eds., Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Matthew Zagor, ed., From Borders to Pathways: Innovations and Regressions in the Movement of People into Europe, ANU Press, Sept. 2024

Sergio Carrera Nunez, Eleni Karageorgiou, Gamze Ovacik & Nikolas Feith Tan, eds., Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees, Springer, Dec. 2024

Chiara Berneri, Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe, Hart Publishing, Oct. 2024

David de Boer & Geert H. Janssen, eds., Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe, Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2024

New Books: October 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2024 along with new legal and open access texts, while Part 2 lists additional September 2024 titles. 

October 2024:

Christina Clark-Kazak, Aging In and Out of Place: Lived Experiences of Forced Migration Across the Life Course, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2024

Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli & Bukola Salami, eds., De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice, De Gruyter, Oct. 2024

Min Wha Han, Eun-Jeong Han & JongHwa Lee, eds., Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora Within Homeland, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Clarena Larrotta & Merih Ugurel-Kamisli, eds., English Literacy Educators Working with Refugee Families: An Intercultural Approach to Adult Education, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Brianna Nofil, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

Carol Cleaveland & Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum, NYU Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on the US.

Laura Madokoro, Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on Canada.

Legal texts:

Marie Aronsson-Storrier & Susan C. Breau, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Marjoleine Zieck, Resettlement as Protection: Integrating Resettlement of Refugees in International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Open access:

Charlotte Röhner, Jessica Schwittek & Antoanneta Potsi, eds., Transmigration und Place-making junger Geflüchteter = Transmigration and place-making of young refugees, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2024

- Chapters are in English or German.

Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya.

New Books: October 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

September 2024:

Isabelle Desportes, Alice Corbet & Ayesha Siddiqi, eds., Depoliticising Humanitarian Action: Paradigms, Dilemmas, Resistance, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Bulbul Siddiqi, ed., Displacement and Refugee Issues in South Asia: Uncovering the Contested Realities, Lexington Books, Sept. 2024

Gabriele Abbondanza, The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia, Routledge, Sept. 2024

AKM Ahsan Ullah, ed., Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia, Springer, Sept. 2024 

- Note: This is a "living reference work" so it will continue to be updated.

Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston & Mark Falcous, eds., Handbook on Sport and Migration, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024 

Federico Alagna, Migrant Smuggling and the Criminalisation of Migration in the EU: Policies and Practices from Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2024

Mónica Reyes, Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Kunle Musbaudeen Oparinde & Rodwell Makombe, Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Identity, Emerald Publishing, Sept. 2024