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