New Books: May 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books & legal texts due out in May 2025, while Part 2 lists additional April 2025 titles as well as new open access items.

May 2025:

Irene I. Vega, Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality, Princeton Univ. Press, May 2025 

Dawn Chatty & Marcus Colchester, eds., Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development, 2nd ed., Berghahn Books, May 2025

Gihan Karunaratne, ed., Displaced Urbanism, Routledge, May 2025

Khalid Arar, Emily R. Crawford, Deniz Örücü & Ira Bogotch, eds., Education, Immigration and Migration: Revisiting and Re-Imagining Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World, 2nd ed., Emerald Publishing, May 2025

Christian H Kälin, ed., Free Global Cities: The Future Leaders in Migration and Public Governance, Hart Publishing, May 2025

Danielle Battisti & S. Deborah Kang, eds., Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States, Univ. of Illinois Press, May 2025 

Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu & Daniel Ahadi, eds., Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, Routledge, May 2025

Avijit Mistri, Md. Selim Reja & Bhaswati Das, eds., Migration Studies: The Fundamentals, Routledge, May 2025

Kolleen Guy & Jay Winter, eds., Statelessness after Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War, Manchester Univ. Press, May 2025

Legal texts:

Heather Jean Alexander, The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomadic Peoples Under International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2025

Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, Protection of Human Life at Sea in International Law: Rescuing Maritime Migrants, Routledge, May 2025

New Books: May 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

April 2025:

Umut Ozkaleli, De-essentializing Refugees: Perceptions, Experiences, and Becoming of Syrians in Türkiye, Springer, April 2025

Alfred Babo & Sayed Hassan Akhlaq, eds., Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Reflections on the Paradox of Inclusion and Exclusion, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2025 

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Friedemann Yi-Neumann, A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception: Crafting Refuge, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2025 

- Focuses on Germany.

Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober & Robert A. McLeman, Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2025 

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna Tufa & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

Open access:

Khadija Abbasi, Reza Hussaini, Atefeh Kazemi & Abdullah Mohammadi, Displacement of the Hazara People of Afghanistan: Complex Histories, Lived Places Publishing, April 2025

Alice Panepinto, Bana Abu Zuluf, Ahmad Amara, Brendan Ciarán Browne, Munir Nuseibah & Triestino Mariniello, eds., Ending Impunity for International Law Violations: Palestinian Bedouins and the Risk of Forced Displacement, Hart Publishing, March 2025

Masayuki Tadokoro, The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders, Springer, Feb. 2025

Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda & Sujata Ramachandran, eds., New Directions in South-South Migration, Springer, April 2025

New Books: April 2025

April 2025:

Nadia El-Shaarawi, Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War, Univ. of California Press, April 2025 

Zeynep Kilicoglu, Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures, Routledge, April 2025

Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge & Evan Smith, eds., Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949, Brill, April 2025

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Rachel Humphris, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, Stanford Univ. Press, April 2025

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

* Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko & Anindita Ghoshal, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Daniel Briggs, Sheltering Strangers: Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees, Policy Press, April 2025

March 2025:

Sara Mazzei, Arab-Islamic Education Systems in the Experience of Migrants and Refugees in Europe: An Historical and Cultural Analysis Focused on Morocco, Syria, Italy, Germany and Sweden, Springer, March 2025 

Julie Matthews & Quentin Maire, eds., A Modern Guide to Refugee Education: Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices, Edward Elgar, March 2025 

Matthew Davis, Third Sector Organisations, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Support During Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025 

Jennifer Moore, Women’s Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2025 

Open access:

Rachel Benchekroun, Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-migration in the UK, UCL Press, March 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: March 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in March 2025, while Part 2 lists additional February 2025 titles as well as new open access texts.

March 2025:

 

Sebastian Meyer, Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi & Giacomo Solano, eds., The Admission and Integration of Refugees in Europe: Legal and Policy Perspectives, Routledge, March 2025

Adeyemi Abel Ajibesin & Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, eds., AI for Humanitarianism: Fostering Social Change Through Emerging Technologies, Routledge, March 2025

Miriam Potocky Rafaidus, Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children: Contemporary Resonance, Lived Places Publishing, March 2025

Ekaterina Tour, Edwin Creely, Peter Waterhouse & Michael Henderson, eds., Digital Empowerment for Refugee and Migrant Learners: Applying Strengths-Based Practice to Adult Education, Routledge, 

 

Hazar Ege Gürsoy Erdenay, Georgian Internally Displaced People: The Formation of a Social Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2025

Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander & Douglas McGetchin, eds., German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950: Shelter from the Storm?, Routledge, March 2025

Nele Kortendiek, Global Governance on the Ground: Organizing International Migration and Asylum at the Border, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2025

 

Katrin Radtke & Kristina Roepstorff, eds., An Introduction to Humanitarian Action, Routledge, March 2025

Azlin Zaiti Zainal, Meng Huat Chau & Jessica Rummy, Language and Literacy Education of Asylum The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration Seekers and Refugees: Pre-resettlement Experiences of Learners in Malaysia, Routledge, March 2025

Sahar Akhtar, ed., The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration, Routledge, March 2025

Jennifer Huynh, Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon, Univ.  of California Press, March 2025

Andréanne Bissonnette & Élisabeth Vallet, eds., Walled: Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Univ. of Arizona Press, March 2025

New Books: March 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

 

February 2025:

 

Zenia Hellgren, Alexander Gamst Page & Thomas Sealy, eds., Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies Contested Diversity and Fractured Belongings, Routledge, Feb. 2025

 

Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick, Ericka Galegher, Annika Wilmers & Alexander W. Wiseman , eds., Preparing and Supporting Teachers of Immigrant and Refugee Students, Routledge, Feb. 2025  

Philippa Duell-Piening, Refugee Displacement, Disability and Human Rights: The Production, Processing and Power of Data, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Open access:

 

Bridget Anderson, ed., Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race, Bristol Univ. Press, Feb. 2025

Wendy Sims-Schouten, Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices: Perspectives from the Past and Present, UCL Press, Feb. 2025

Richard Carter-White & Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2025

New Books: February 2025

February 2025:

Erika Herrera Rosales, Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Shahd Abusalama, Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2025

José A. Brandariz, Giulia Fabini, Cristina Fernández-Bessa & Valeria Ferraris, eds., Border Criminologies from the Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality, Feb. 2025

Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman & Stuart Dunmore, eds., The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities, Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2025

Sophia Balakian, Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, Stanford Univ. Press, Feb. 2025

January 2025:

Marija Grujić, Belonging in Unhomely Homelands: Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025 

Hiroshi Motomura, Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2025 

Gabriele Volpato, Desert Entanglements: The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025

Wills Kalisha & Tomasz Szkudlarek, eds., Educating the Next Generation: Reflections on Crises, Migration, and Education, Springer, Jan. 2025 

Maria Anita Stefanelli & Izabela Skórzynska, eds., Scars of War: Migration, Security and Sustainable Future, Emerald Publishing, Jan. 2025

Legal texts:

Marc Bossuyt, Right to Asylum: Between Demagogy and Hypocrisy, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2025

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

Open access:

Hanspeter Kriesi, Crisis Policymaking in the EU: The COVID-19 Crisis and the Refugee Crisis 2015-16 Compared, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

Marcus Otto & Tania Saeed, eds., Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education: Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings, Nov. 2024

Seyla Benhabib & Ayelet Shachar, eds., Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

Tamirace Fakhoury & Dawn Chatty, eds., Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics, I.B. Tauris, Jan. 2025

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

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