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

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

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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

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

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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

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