01 April 2021

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in April 2021, while part 2 lists new books published in March 2021 as well as new legal and open access texts.

April 2021:

Amanda C. Demmer, After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021


Gabriele Proglio, Camilla Hawthorne, Ida Danewid, P. Khalil Saucier, Giuseppe Grimaldi, Angelica Pesarini, Timothy Raeymaekers, Giulia Grechi & Vivian Gerrand, eds., The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

- "[A]n ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia."

Emma Carmel, Katharina Lenner & Regine Paul, eds., Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, April 2021

Alistair D. B. Cook & Lina Gong, eds., Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice, Springer, April 2021

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas, eds., Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, Routledge, April 2021 

Elżbieta Goździak, International Migration: A Quick Immersion, Tibidabo Publishing, April 2021

Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer & Paul Weindling, eds., Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2021

Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities, Routledge, April 2021


Cristina Astier & Ander Errasti, eds., Refugees' Europe: Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2021

Becky Taylor, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe, Routledge, April 2021

Nicholas R. Micinski, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, April 2021


New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 2

Part 1 of this post is available here.

March 2021:

Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration, Pluto Press, March 2021


Celeste Cedillo González & Julieta Espín Ocampo, eds., Human Displacement from a Global South Perspective: Migration Dynamics in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Stephen M. Croucher, Flora Galy-Badenas, Shawn M. Condon, Maria Sharapan & Margareta Salonen, Migration and Media in Finland: Perceptions and Depictions of Natives, Immigrants and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis', Manchester Univ. Press, March 2021

Onur Yamaner, Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey: Intersectional Marginalization, Verlag Barbara Budrich, March 2021

Zoe Holman, Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe, Melbourne Univ. Press, March 2021

Legal Text:

Liv Feijen, The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Open Access:


Birgit Meyer & Peter van der Veer, eds., Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories, Bloomsbury, March 2021