New Books: December 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in December 2025, while Part 2 lists additional November 2025 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

December 2025:

Eleni Chasioti, Clothes and Textiles of Anatolian Greek Refugees: Embodied Memories on Display, Lived Places Publishing, Dec. 2025

- Note: The title displayed on the image of the book cover is different: The Clothes Anatolian Greek Refugees Wore: Items Brought When Fleeing in the 20th Century.

Mirna Carranza, The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home, Lived Places Publishing, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Canada.

Bobby Luthra Sinha, Nirmala Devi Gopal, Annapurna Devi Pandey & Ashutosh Kumar, eds., Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities, Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States, Routledge, Dec. 2025 

Franziska Werner, Philipp Piechura, Carla Bormann & Ingrid Breckner, eds., (Forced) Migration and Space: An Introduction to a Space-Sensitive Approach in (Forced) Migration Studies, Springer, Dec. 2025

Gusztáv D. Kecskés & Tamás Scheibner, eds., A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief: From Local Crisis to Global Impact, De Gruyter, Dec. 2025

Henrik Kjellmo Larsen, How Spontaneous Volunteers Disrupt the Management of Forced Migrants and Life Seekers, Springer, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Greece.

Susanne Korbel & Philipp Strobl, eds., Practices of Reunification: The Continuation of Refugee Life after 1945, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Valerie Preston, John Shields & Tara Bedard, eds., Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Canada.

Nimo Bokore, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees, Springer, Dec. 2025

Michelle Pace, Un-welcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration, Manchester Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

Bernadette Ludwig, Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America, Rutgers Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

New Books: December 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

November 2025:

Martin Gottwald, Beyond Principles? A Critical Look at UNHCR’s Organisational Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2025

*Valerie Francisco-Menchavez & Leah Williams Veazey, eds., Communities of Care in Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2025

*Alpaslan Özerdem, Handbook on Humanitarian Crises, Edward Elgar, Nov. 2025

Legal texts:

Natale Serón Arizmendi, Unaccompanied Migrant Children and International Law: The Role of Strategic Litigation in Advancing Human Rights, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Open access:

Ataus Samad, Aparna Hebbani & Nichole Georgeou, eds., Beyond the Cities: The Dynamics of Migrant Settlement in Regional Australia, Springer, Nov. 2025

Lauren Sakae Nishimura, Climate Change, Human Rights, and Adaptive Mobility, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Ana Beduschi, Massimo Marelli & Aaron Martin, eds., Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Heidi Østbø Haugen & Bingyu Wang, eds., Handbook on Migration to China, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025

*Doina Anca Cretu & Michal Frankl, eds., Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: Local, National and International Perspectives, Manchester Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Piotr Długosz & Dominika Izdebska-Długosz, eds., Women War Refugees from Ukraine: Two Years Since the Invasion, Peter Lang, Nov. 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: November 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in November 2025, while Part 2 lists additional October 2025 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

November 2025:

Josip Obradović & Sampson Lee Blair, eds., Families and Migration: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration, Emerald Publishing, Nov. 2025

Marketa Bacakova, Wayne Veck & Julie Wharton, eds., Forced Migration, Disability and Education: Inclusion and Exclusion at the Intersection of Displacement and Disablement, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Karen Jacobsen, Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings, Yale Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Tual Sawn Khai, Irregular Migration in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Barriers to Regularization and Healthcare, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše &Tea Škokić, eds., Keywords of the Balkan Route: The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery, Berghahn Books, Nov. 2025

Adèle Garnier, Sarah Dubuc & Christina R. Clark-Kazak, eds., and Lyse Hébert, transl., La migration forcée au Canada, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Rachel Hoare, Psychological Support for Refugee Adolescents: An Expressive Arts Approach to Wellbeing and Trauma Recovery, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Eva Plach, Relief on the Hoof: The Seagoing Cowboys, the Heifer Project, and UNRRA in Poland, Northern Illinois University Press, Nov. 2025

Joseph Musasizi, Dharma Arunachalam & Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rethinking Refugee-Host Relations: Cultural Proximity and Historical Links, Routledge, Nov. 2025 

New Books: November 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

October 2025:

Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud & Deema Refai, Arab Refugee Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities in Jordan and Lebanon, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025 

Muhammed Serhat Semercioğlu & Ahmet Oğuz Akçay, eds., Foundational Education of Primary-Level Refugee Students: Advancing Fundamental Subject Knowledge, Springer, Oct. 2025

Bronte Alexander, Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil's Northern Frontier, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja & Johanna Gördemann, eds., Handbook of Migration Ethics, Springer, Oct. 2025

Paula Banerjee, Nasreen Chowdhory & Priya Singh, eds., The Postcolonial Compendium: Keywords in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2025 

Mohammad Zaman, Robert Anderson & Kawser Ahmed, eds., Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World, Springer, Oct. 2025

Nasir Uddin, ed., Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People: The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries, Springer, Oct. 2025

Legal texts:

Jenny Poon, Counteracting Containment Policies in the EU: Safeguarding the Non-Refoulement Principle, Springer, Oct. 2025

Niovi Vavoula, Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Valsamis Mitsilegas, eds., Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU, Routledge, Sept. 2025

- A preprint version of the introduction is available via SSRN.

Open access:

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024, transcript Verlag, 2025 

- The theme of this edition is "Gender*Queer." Contributed chapters are in either German or English.

Ryuji Hattori & Tual Sawn Khai, Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup: Exploring Four Channels Amid the Weaponization of Assistance, Springer, Sept. 2025

Janine Dahinden & Andreas Pott, eds., Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives, Springer, Nov. 2025

New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2025, while Part 2 lists additional September 2025 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

October 2025:

Marla A. Ramírez, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andriani Fili, Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Eram Alam, The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Gentille Dusenge, A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life: More to Life than a Refugee Camp, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

Mirna Carranza, The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

Sarah Scott Ford, Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region: Legal Sociology and Human Rights, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Marco Palillo, Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Leila Hudson, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced, Syracuse Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Loretta E. Bass, ed., Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration Around the World, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2025

- Note: One chapter is open access.

Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, ed., Research with Refugee Children and Families: Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights, UBC Press, Oct. 2025 

New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

September 2025:

Mohammad Zaman, Anatomy of Resettlement: Ethnographic Accounts and Stories in Retrospect, Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2025

Itır Aladağ Görentaş, Marie Mallet-Garcia, Jérémy Mandin, Elsa Mescoli & Buket Özdemir Dal, eds., Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights: Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2025

Hassan Mizori, Interpreting in Asylum Procedures: Dialogist Interpretation, Multilingual Matters, Sept. 2025

Clothilde Salelles, Weak States, Borders and Humanitarian Interventions: The Case of Lebanon, Springer, Sept. 2025

Legal texts:

Sophie Capicchiano Young, State Responsibility and International Refugee Law: History, Theory, and Application, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Catherine Briddick, Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception: Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2025

Open access:

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home Following Conflict and Displacement, Berghahn Books, Sept. 2025

Maja Janmyr, Özlem Gürakar Skribeland, and Arjumand Bano Kazmi, eds., Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Lucas Oesch & Léa Lemaire, eds., Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives, Bristol Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2025 along with additional August 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal, reference and open access texts. 

September 2025:

Jennifer Ferng, Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru, Routledge, Sept. 2025

Michael M. Gunter & Ali Askerov, Forgotten Exile: The Deportations of Azerbaijanis by the Armenians in the Caucasus during the Twentieth Century, Brill, Sept. 2025

Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe, Fernwood Publishing, Sept. 2025 

Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch & Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2025

Cléa Fortuné, Tensions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: From Border Security to Local Insecurity, Routledge, Sept. 2025

August 2025:

Małgorzata Dziekońska & Kamil Luczaj, eds., Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024), Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli & Thalita Franciely de Melo Silva, eds., Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legal and Policy Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Sami Alanne, Music, Music Therapy and Refugees: Aspects of Trauma, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025