New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in August 2026, while Part 2 lists additional July 2026 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

August 2026:

Kelsey P. Norman &  Nicholas R. Micinski, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2026

John Kluge Jr. & Christine Mahoney, Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone, Columbia University Press, Aug. 2026

Chrysi Kyratsou, Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece: Refugees Musicking, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Ergün Özgür Liy, ed., Highly Qualified Immigrants and Refugees: Agency, Challenges and Opportunities across Europe – Türkiye, transcript Publishing, Aug. 2026

Giuseppe Motta, Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State, Routledge, Aug. 2026

Dalton T. Sirmans, The Refugee Advantage: Building Enterprise in the Face of Adversity, Bloomsbury, Aug. 2026

Bruce Bennett & Katarzyna Marciniak, Refugee Cinema, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Olga Oleinikova & Xin Janet Ge, Refugees at University: Access, Belonging, and What Comes After, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026

- Focuses on Australia.

Silvia Pasquetti, Refugees Together and Citizens Apart: Control, Emotions, and Politics at the Palestinian Margins. Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Manya Oriel Kagan, Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda: Rethinking Integration Policies, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Nicholas De Genova & Daniel I. Morales, eds., Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Struggles and the Law, Duke Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Chad Hoggan & Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert, Transitions, Learning, and Material Culture: Ukrainian War Refugees and the Objects They Carried, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

July 2026:

Purna Banerjee & Priya Singh, eds., Fractured Spaces: Intersectional Approaches to Migration and Displacement, Springer, July 2026 

 John Washington, Paperback, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, Haymarket Books, July 2026 

- Focuses on the US.

Jun Sung Hong, Jennifer M. Bondy & Anthony A. Peguero, eds., Violence and Trauma Without Borders: Perspectives of Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026

- Focuses on the US.

Legal texts:

Luísa Helena Lemos da Cruz, Claims to Refugee Status based on Domestic Violence: Exploring the Frontiers of International Refugee Law with the Guidance of International Human Rights Law, Editora Dialética, July 2026

Thomas Mulder, Solidarity in International Disaster Response Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2026

Open access:

Edanur Yazici, The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice, Policy Press, July 2026

Chiara Scissa, Disaster Displacement and International Protection in the EU: Challenges, Misconceptions, and the Way Forward, Routledge, July 2026

Nóra Béres, ed., International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law: From the Perspective of Human Rights Law, Central European Academic Publishing, July 2026

Victorie Knox, Organised Crime and Migration: Criminal Groups, Corruption and the Displacement Crisis in Central America and Mexico, Univ. of London Press, June 2026

Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Jade Siu & Olivier Sterck, The Refugee Trap: The Economics of Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2026

New Books: July 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in July 2026, while Part 2 lists additional June 2026 titles and open access books.

July 2026:

Charity Lee, Yating Chen & Kumaran Rajandran, Analysing Forced Migration: A Discourse-informed Approach, Springer, July 2026

John Kluge Jr. & Christine Mahoney, Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone, Columbia Univ. Press, July 2026 

Jared Keyel, Care Over Cruelty: American Wars, Displacement, and Refugee Resettlement, De Gruyter, July 2026

Danielle E. Sachdeva, ed., Immigration-Themed Youth Literature: Perspectives for K–12 Educators, Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, July 2026

Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Inside the Bureaucracy of Immigration Detention: Disgust, Contempt, and Humiliation, Routledge, July 2026

Md. Shihab Uddin & Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Media, Diplomacy and Forced Migration, Springer, July 2026

Enrica Rigo, Migration, Asylum and Exploitation: A Feminist Legal Perspective, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2026

Brian Drohan & Margot Tudor, eds., Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, Cornell Univ. Press, July 2026

- Note: Chapter 8, "Paths to Peace: UNRRA and the US Military in China, 1945–47," is open access.

Natasha Kay Mortley & Andrea N. Baldwin, eds., Reconceptualising Caribbean Migration: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives, Springer, July 2026 

Chrysi Kyratsou, Refugees Musicking: Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece, Routledge, July 2026 

Salvador Santino Regilme, eds., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights, De Gruyter, July 2026

Ernest Nnadigwe, Trauma, Masculinity and Family and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Understanding of African Men from Refugee Backgrounds in Western Australia, Springer, July 2026 

Ludek Stavinoha, Unruly Subjects: Migration, Solidarity and Resistance in Greece, Manchester Univ. Press, July 2026

New Books: July 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

June 2026:

Dan Chung, A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees, Bloomsbury Academic, June 2026

Angela Sherwood, Humanitarian Crime: Disasters, Dispossession, and Resistance in Port-au-Prince, Routledge, June 2026

Open access:

Andreas Hackl, Digital Exiles: Refugee Work in the Global Digital Economy, MIT Press, June 2026

Oliver Winkler & Melanie Olczyk, eds., Educational Integration of Refugees and Newly Arrived Immigrants: Institutional Contexts and Their Relevance, Springer, June 2026 

Lidia Kuzemska, Fragmented Lives in Times of War: Displacement within and from Ukraine, transcript Publishing, June 2026 

Zeena Zakharia, Francine Menashy & Maha Shuayb, Transforming Humanitarian Partnerships: Dismantling Colonial Legacies for Refugee Education, Bristol Univ. Press, June 2026

Benjamin Etzold & Marie Godin, eds., Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict: Understanding People’s (Im)Mobilities and (Dis)Connections under Conditions of Violence and War, Springer, June 2026

*Francesco Luigi Gatta & Mario Savino, eds., Visas in Migration and Asylum Law: The Key that Opens the Door, Routledge, June 2026

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New Books: June 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books and legal texts due out in June 2026, while Part 2 lists additional May 2026 titles and open access books.

June 2026:

Ester Serra Mingot, African Migrant Journeys Through Mexico: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Multiple Displacements, Springer, June 2026 

Birgitte Stampe Holst, Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life: Reckoning with the State, Berghahn Books, June 2026 

Timur Dadabaev, Shigeto Sonoda & Kirill Nourzhanov, eds., Bridges Across Borders: Dynamics of Central Eurasian Migration to Australia, Japan, and Northern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2026

Atsushi Yamagata, Debating Refugees in Japan: A Critical Analysis of Media and Political Discourses, Routledge, June 2026 

Hemaadri Singh Rana, India's Tibetan Refugees: Navigating Exile, State Policies and Host-Community Conflicts, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2026

Marie-Claude Savard, The Localization Agenda: Aid's Failure to Deliver on Its Grand Promise, Bloomsbury Academic, June 2026

Robert Love, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Horn of Africa: Towards a More Socio-economically Informed Development Discourse, Bloomsbury Academic, June 2026

Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, The Nigeria-Biafra war and the making of a humanitarian crisis (1967-70), Manchester Univ. Press, June 2026 

Katie Brown & Peter Sloane, eds., Refugees Across the Arts: Global Cultures of Displacement in the 21st Century, Liverpool Univ. Press, June 2026

Paul Moawad, Waiting on Borders: Exploiting Time in Syrian Refugee Informal Tent Settlements in Lebanon, American Univ. in Cairo Press, June 2026

Legal texts:

Hiroshi Motomura, Maryellen Fullerton, Juliet Stumpf, Pratheepan Gulasekaram & Rose Cuison-Villazor, Asylum, Refugees, and Other Humanitarian Protections, West Academic, June 2026

- Focuses on the US.

Juan Santos Vara, European Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar, June 2026 

New Books: June 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

May 2026: 

Valeska Padovese & Isotta Rossoni, eds., Intersections of Sexual Health, Migration and Sexualised Violence: A Public Health and Rights-based Approach, Springer, May 2026 

Diosey Ramon Lugo-Morin, Latin American Women and Climate Displacement: Ancestral Knowledge, Environmental Crisis, and the Making of New Futures, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2026

Alex Tomas Fusco, The Production of Camp Space: An Analysis of a Refugee Camp in Mainland Greece, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2026

Meryam Schouler-Ocak, ed., Trauma and Migration: Cultural Factors in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatised Immigrants, Springer, May 2026

Open access:

Saana Hansen, Economies of Care: Return Migration from South Africa to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Berghahn Books, June 2026

Michal Frankl, ed., Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge?, Central European Univ. Press, May 2026

Halleh Ghorashi, Tara Fiorito, Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki & Elena Ponzoni, eds., Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration: Toward a Co-creative, Caring, and Reflexive Migration Studies, Springer, May 2026

New Books: May 2026

May 2026:

Kiri Olivia Santer, The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea, Duke Univ. Press, May 2026

Mariia Vitrukh, Embodied Educational Experience among Ukrainian Displaced Students: Methodological Insights into Education during Forced Migration, Routledge, May 2026 

Vander Tavares & Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, eds., Language Education and Learners of a Refugee Background, Springer, May 2026

Benjamin Elsner & Solomon W. Polachek, eds., Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, Emerald Publishing, May 2026

Nour Mohammad, Refugees, Environmental Impacts, and International Human Rights Law: Lessons from Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2026

April 2026:

Jonas Hassemer, Inside Refugee Support Work: An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity, Multilingual Matters, April 2026

Jerome Krase & Zdeněk Uherek, eds., Local and Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2026

- See esp. the section on "Migration, Minorities and Refugees."

Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles over Movement, Bristol Univ. Press, April 2026

Open access:

*Erol Esen, Veli Ercan Çetintürk & Cem Şentürk, eds., Climate Change and Migration: Global Challenges and Local Mitigation Strategies, Peter Lang, March 2026

Heike Krieger, Giedre Jokubauskaite, Asli Ozcelik & Andreas Buser, eds., From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2026

Karin Borevi & Ayhan Kaya, Migration and the Politics of Integration: IMISCOE Short Reader, Springer, March 2026

*UPDATED