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
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
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.

