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

Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen & Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction, Wiley, 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, 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