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

New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in January 2026, while Part 2 lists additional December 2025 titles, as well as new reference, legal and open access texts.

January 2026:

Ofer Gazit, Hamutal Sadan & Sarah Hankins, eds., Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making, Routledge, Jan. 2026 

Aysuhan Tuba Saral & Margarita Pavlova, Education for Refugees and Sustainable Green Urban Development: Building Skills through Non-formal Learning, Springer, Jan. 2026

Duncan McLean, Françoise Duroch & Amy Mavor, eds., Humanitarian Myths and Hubris: A Critical Self-Portrait from Médecins Sans Frontières, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Irène Herrmann, Humanitarianism and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1859 to 1989, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Daniel Rauhut & Marika Gruber, eds., Refugee Housing in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Dimensional Governance, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

Angela Dew, Refugee Journeys to Australia: Safety, Security, and Support for People with Disabilities from Syria and Iraq, Bloomsbury Academic, Jan. 2026

Georgina Colby & Jane Freedman, eds., Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony, Liverpool Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Kerstin von Brömssen & Live Stretmo, eds., Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations: Multidisciplinary Understandings and Key Concepts, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Ainoa Cabada, The UN Charter, the Refugee Convention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: Towards a Preventative Protection Regime, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Ana Carden-Coyne, Charles Green, Chrisoula Lionis & Angeliki Roussou, Understanding Displacement Aesthetics: History, Art and Museums, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Rebecca Buxton & Samuel Ritholtz, The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge, Univ. of California Press, Jan. 2026

New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

December 2025:

Marco Perolini, Migration and Mobile Rights: Activism, Racial Justice, and Human Rights from Below, Bristol University Press, Dec. 2025

Peter Mancina, On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State, NYU Press, Dec. 2025 

Priyanca Mathur & Rubina Pradhan, eds., Post-Pandemic World Order: Issues and Challenges, Routledge, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Asia. See Part II: State of International Migrants and Refugees. 

Reference books:

Sofia Dedotsi, Elena Cabiati & Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Migration: Theory, Practice, Education and Research, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Laura Cleton, Nahikari Irastorza, Agnieszka Weinar & Lyubov Zhyznomirska, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, 2nd ed., Routledge, Jan. 2026

Legal texts:

Alex Powell, Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration, Bristol University Press, Jan. 2026

Open access:

Chrisoula Lionis, Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement: Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Katherine Kunz, Contested Home: Asylum-seeking in Switzerland and the Politics of Belonging, Place, and Religion, transcript Verlag, June 2025 

Marcin Stonawski, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Katarzyna Górska, Agnieszka Olter-Castillo, Silvana Gomez & Jan Brzozowski, Coping and Adaptation in Times of Exodus: Venezuelan Migration Decisions and Strategies, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Anne Ring Petersen, Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement: Contemporary Art and Refugee Experience in Denmark, transcript Verlag, Dec. 2025 

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