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:

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

New Books: April 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in April 2026, while Part 2 lists additional March 2026 titles, as well as a new reference book and open access texts.

April 2026:

Nathan Benson, James Milner & Delphine Nakache, eds., Canada in the Global Refugee Regime, McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2026

Britta Konz & Caterina Rohde-Abuba, eds., Flight and Religion: Exploring Faith and Resilience of Children and Parents with Flight Experience, Springer, April 2026 

Steve Hochstadt, Jewish Refugees in Shanghai: Experiences, Memories, Interviews, Histories, Berghahn Books, April 2026

Yacoub Aljaffery, Narratives of Success and Resilience of Students from Refugee Backgrounds in U.S. Schools: From Invisible to Valuable, Routledge, April 2026

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

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

Rawan Arar, Molly Fee, Heba Gowayed & Blair Sackett, eds., Refugee Resettlement as an Institution, Routledge, April 2026

Shahla Eltayeb, Unni Marie Heltne & Ragnhild Dybdahl, eds., Resilience in the Shadows: Mental Health of Vulnerable Refugees and Displaced Communities in Africa, Springer, April 2026

Melanie Oppenheimer, Neville Wylie, Susanne Schech, Romain Fathi & Jordan Evans, Resilient Humanitarianism: The League of Red Cross Societies, 1919–1991, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2026

Houman Oliaei, Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan, Indiana University Press, April 2026

New Books: April 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

March 2026:

Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2026

Joris Van Wijk & Maarten Bolhuis, Undesirable but Unremovable Migrants: War Criminals, Terrorists and Foreign Offenders in Limbo, Routledge, March 2026

*Madeleine Sumption, What is Immigration Policy For?, Bristol University Press, March 2026

Reference books:

David Cantor, Megan Bradley, Winifred Ekezie, Utz Pape & Natalia Baal, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Internal Displacement, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2026 

Open access:

Christina Clark-Kazak, Age and Immigration Policy in Canada: Toward an Equitable Approach, UBC Press, Feb. 2026

Marilena Anastasopoulou, A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2026 

Ilse Ruyssen, Charlotte Scheerens, Sonja Fransen & Robert Oakes, eds., The Climate, Migration and Health Nexus: Opportunities for Interregional Cooperation, Springer, March 2026

Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, Kamran Matin, Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi & Isabel Soloaga, Decolonizing Queer Migration: Iranian Voices in Exile, Bristol University Press, March 2026

John Marnell, B Camminga, Barbara Bompani & Kamau Wairuri, eds., East African Queer and Trans Displacements, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Ulrike Krause, Gato Ndabaramiye Joshua & Hannah Schmidt, Refugee-Led Organizations in Uganda: Agency, Gender, and Politics of Self-Organizing in Exile, McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2026

*UPDATED

New Books: March 2026 - Pt. 1

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

March 2026:

Violetta Hionidou & Dimitris Skleparis, eds., Across the Aegean: A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey, 1922-2022, Routledge, March 2026

Victoria Abrahamyan, Armenian Refugees in French Mandate Syria: Statelessness and Nation-Building in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, March 2026

Molly Fee, Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement, Univ. of California Press, March 2026

Paolo Boccagni & Thomas Lacroix, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place, Bristol Univ. Press, March 2026

Francesca Esposito, Teresa Degenhardt & Annika Lindberg, eds., Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19, Policy Press, March 2026

Julia F. Irwin, Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2026

Melissa Hauber-Özer, Investment in Second Language Learning and Higher Education: Narratives of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Universities, Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, March 2026

Emily R. Crawford, Bryan Mann, Meredith Bittel & Ryan Rumpf, eds., Leading for Refugees and Newcomers: Cases for K-12 Schools, Harvard Education Press, March 2026 

Francis L. Collins, Sin Yee Koh & Brenda S.A. Yeoh, eds., Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge, Edward Elgar, March 2026

Carmen Santamaría-García & Eija Ventola, eds., A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants, Routledge, March 2026

Nasreen Chowdhory & Priya Singh, eds., New Frontiers in the Register of Migration and Refugee Studies, Springer, March 2026

Čarna Brković, Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans: From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics, Indiana Univ. Press, March 2026

Emilio Rodríguez, ed., A Renewed Canadian Welcome: Eleven Visions from Migrants and Advocates, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, March 2026

New Books: March 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

February 2026:

Judit Szente, Education of Young Children Caught in Disasters: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Interventions, Springer, Feb. 2026

Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, Anna Gotlib, Ryoa Chung & Deborah Zion, eds., Forced Migration and Health Justice, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Bayes Ahmed & Bishawjit Mallick, eds., Handbook on Climate Mobility, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2026 

Gabrielle Daoust & Synne L. Dyvik, Humanitarianism in the Home: Hosting-at-home and the Politics of Hospitality, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Mălina Ciocea, ed., Ukrainian Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe: Public Debates, Strategic Narratives and Practices, Springer, 2026 

Legal texts:

Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, eds., Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

*Emilie McDonnell, Protecting the Right to Leave in an Era of Externalised Migration Control, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026 

Spyridoula Katsoni, Shared Responsibility for Multiple International Persons' Contribution to a Refoulement, Springer, Feb. 2026 

Open access:

Carolin Funke & Dennis Dijkzeul, Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises: Robust Human Rights Norms?, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2025

Grażyna Baranowska & Milica Kolaković-Bojović, eds., Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Michelle Obeid, Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2025

Maja Hertoghs, Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus: An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power, Berghahn Books, March 2026

*UPDATED

New Books: February 2026 - Pt. 1

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

February 2026:

Aina Backman, Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden: Being an Outsider Inside the Fence, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech, eds., The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Matthew Hilton, Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Mahmood Monshipouri, Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, and Human Rights in the Middle East, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Dolapo Fakuade & Erman Akilli, Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Paolo Boccagni & Thomas Lacroix, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place, Bristol Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Sophia Pandya, The Hizmet Movement in Exile: Refugees of Turkey's Purge, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2026

Sohail Jannesari, The Migrant Art of Coping, Pluto Books, Feb. 2026

Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen & Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction, Wiley Blackwell, Feb. 2026

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Carolina Valdivia, Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability,
Univ. of California Press, Feb. 2026

Legal texts:

Kirsten McConnachie & Sarah Singer, eds., Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection: International Jurisprudence on the Rights of Refugees, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo, & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 4th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Feb. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

New Books: February 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

January 2026:

Annet Adong, Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements in the Anthropocene: Incentives and Consequences in the Great Lake Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Special Focus on Northern Uganda, Springer, Jan. 2026

Benjamin Nangle & Giedrė Blažyte, The Construction of Hostility Towards Migrants: The Case of the Lithuanian-Belarusian Border Crisis of 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026 

Joseph Zajda & Patricia Kubow, eds., Globalisation and Education for Refugee and Displaced Children: Education and Policy Reforms in Non-Western Contexts, Springer, Feb. 2026

Maria Schiller & Peter Scholten, eds., Handbook on Migration and Public Policy, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

K. Bruce Newbold & Mary Crea-Arsenio, eds., A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

Murtaza Faruquee, Sarah Saqib, Afra Nur Akman & MD Shariful Alam, eds., Resilience Lessons from Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Framework for Capabilities Integration, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Mark Rainey, Restless Justice: Asylum, Homelessness and Volunteering, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the UK. 

Nimo Bokore, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees, Springer, Jan. 2026

Open access:

Maria Framke, Between Empire and Nation: South Asian Humanitarianism in the Late Colonial Period, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

Morten Skovdal & Lena Skovgaard Andersen, eds., Continuity of Care for Forcibly Displaced Persons Living with Chronic Illness, Policy Press, Feb. 2026

Claudio Minca & Yolanda Weima, eds., Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026