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

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

New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Ruth Rubio Marín, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Benedita Menezes Queiroz & Fulvia Staiano, eds., Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025

Lena Riemer, The Prohibition of Collective Expulsion: Protecting against Arbitrary Expulsion in Human Rights Treaty Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Elizabeth Mavropoulou, Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

 Júlia Zomignani Barboza, Undesirable but Unreturnable Migrants: The Challenges of Dealing with Criminal Migrants in Need of Protection - A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Belgium and Canada, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Reference book:

Yen Le Espiritu, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, 1st ed., SAGE Publications, Sept. 2025

Open access:

Iva Dodevska, Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy, Springer, Aug. 2025

Susan Bibler Coutin, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, Univ. of California, Press, Aug. 2025

William Mude & Sally Baker, Possibilities of Educational Pathways to Refugee Resettlement: A Personal Journey from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Australia, Lived Places Publishing, Aug. 2025

Julija Sardelić, Refugee Protection Crises and Transit Europe: Immediate Responses, Selective Memory, and the Self-Serving Politics of Diversity, Springer, Aug. 2025

Regina Polak, Aybiçe Tosun & Ansgar Jödicke, eds., Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Brill/Schoningh, Aug. 2025

Anas Ansar, Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia, De Gruyter, Aug. 2025

Harald Bauder & Mary Boatemaa Setrana, eds., Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection, 2 vols., Springer, Aug. 2025

- Vol. 1: Frontiers of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

- Vol. 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

New Books: August 2025 - Pt. 1

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

August 2025:

Stephen Mamula & Eva Sutton, Cambodian Journeys: Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2025

Yumi Moon, ed., Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, Humanitarianism from Below: Faith, Welfare, and the Role of Casas de Migrantes in Mexico, NYU Press, Aug. 2025

Ailbhe Kenny, Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Estelle Boyle, Networks of Belonging: Refugee and Migrant Inclusion in Australia, and Digital Communication, Routledge, Aug. 2025 

Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto & Diego Chaves-González, On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Laura C. Forster, The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025 

Virginia De Micco, Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, The Refugee Abyss, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Marie Jelínková, Agnieszka Bielewska & Karin Amit, eds., Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, Aug. 2025

- Note: Two chapters in this volume will be open access as of 11 Aug. 2025.

July 2025:

Eseta Tualaulelei, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley & Alison Bedford, Children’s Picture Books about Refugees and Campbell’s Monomyth, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Robert Koulish & Ernesto Calvo, Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals: How Scoring Algorithms Transformed Anti-Immigrant Sentiments into Policy, Springer, July 2025

Rick Dolphijn & Nicholas Polson, eds., Food, Migration and Belonging: A Glossary for Doing Fieldwork in Contemporary Europe, Springer, July 2025 

Elizabeth Coombes, Emma Maclean & Samuel Gracida, eds., Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Trauma, Transformations and Cultural Connections, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, July 2025