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

*UPDATED

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

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

*UPDATED