New Books: October 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2026, while Part 2 lists additional September 2026 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

October 2026:

Hendrik Van den Berg & Örn B. Bodvarsson, The Economics of Immigration: Theory, History and Policy, Springer, Oct. 2026

Kristina Schulz & Sarah Kiani, eds., Family, Children and Migration during the 'Trente Glorieuses': Clandestinity in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2026

Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takahashi, eds., Handbook of Global Migration and Japan, Routledge, Oct. 2026

Panikos Panayi, ed., Immigrants in Britain during the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History of Realities and Perceptions, 4 vols., Routledge, Oct. 2026

- Volume I: Migration 

- Volume II: Migrants in British Economy and Society

- Volume III: Identities

- Volume IV: Racism

Matthew F. Bokovoy, Lisa Guill, Michelle Carr Hassler, Joy Castro & Emira Ibrahimpašic, eds., The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees: Tales of Migration, Hope, Grief, and Finding Home in Nebraska, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Oct. 2026

Md. Shihab Uddin & Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Media, Diplomacy and Forced Migration, Springer, Oct. 2026

Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ranabir Samaddar, eds., The Rohingya in South Asia: People Without a State, Routledge, Oct 2026

Charlotte De Kock, ed., Substance Use Among Refugees in Europe: Emerging Research Directions from Social Epidemiology to Structural Prevention, Springer, Oct. 2026

Ernest Nnadigwe, Trauma, Masculinity and Family and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Understanding of African Men from Refugee Backgrounds in Western Australia, Springer, Oct. 2026

New Books: October 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

September 2026:

*Nana Oishi, Maruja M.B. Asis & Binod Khadria, eds., Handbook on Migration in Asia, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2026

*Karin Geuijen, Maggi W.H. Leung, Bianca B. Szytniewski & Annelies Zoomers, eds., A Modern Guide to Migration and Spatial Justice in Europe: Welcoming Spaces in ‘Left Behind’ Places, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2026

Nadia Latif, Palestinian Labour and Burj al-Barajneh Camp: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Long-Term Refugee Camps in the Global South, Springer, Sept. 2026

Michał Adam Palacz, Polish Refugee Doctors in Britain: War, Migration and the Globalisation of Medicine, Routledge, Sept. 2026

Olga Oleinikova & Xin Janet Ge, Refugees at University: Access, Belonging, and What Comes After, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2026

- Focuses on Australia.

Legal texts:

Stephen Meili & Dallal Stevens, eds., A Research Agenda for Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2026

Open access:

Lisa Gilman, Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees: Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency, Berghahn Books, Sept. 2026

Petra Molnar, Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics of Migration Control, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026

Maria Cullen, Cold War Humanitarians: NGOs as National Political Actors in the Global South, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2026

Gerasimos Tsourapas & Irene Fernández-Molina, eds., Migration Power Europe: Between Norms and Leverage in the EU's Global Role, European University Institute, July 2026

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New Books: September 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2026, while Part 2 lists additional August 2026 titles, as well as new open access texts.

September 2026:

Stephen George Damianos, Asylum is Unavailable: Absence and Absurdity at the Digital Border, Univ. of California Press, Sept. 2026

- Focuses on Greece.

Maria Cullen, Cold War Humanitarians: NGOs as National Political Actors in the Global South, Manchester University Press, Sept. 2026

Catherine Ashton & Filippo Grandi, The Courage to Welcome: Between Principles and Pragmatism in International Affairs, Haus Publishing, Sept. 2026

Giorgia Doná, Aura Lounasmaa & Corinne Squire, De-bordering Higher Education: Refugees, Universities and Social Justice, Bristol Univ. Press, Sept. 2026

Alistair D. B. Cook, Lina Gong & Ian Holliday, eds., Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia, Routledge, Sept. 2026

Erin Routon, Legal Care: Advocacy and Friction in Family Detention, Univ. of Arizona Press, Sept. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lives in Limbo: Refugee Place-Making and Survival in Malaysia, Stanford Univ. Press, Sept. 2026

Katerina Sergatskova, Occupation and Migration in Eastern Europe: How Citizens Are Forced into Exile and Shaped by New Realities—Reports, Essays, Articles, 2014-25, ibidem Press, Sept. 2026

Mahbubur Rahman, Abdur Rob Khan & Md. Rizwanul Islam, eds., Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?, Routledge, Sept. 2026

Skip Mark, Ashlea Rundlett, Mikhail Filippov & David L. Cingranelli, Science and the Study of Human Rights, SUNY Press, Sept. 2026

New Books: September 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

August 2026:

Christina A. Kilby, Buddhism and Displacement: An Analysis at the Intersection of Religion, Humanitarianism, and Law, Routledge, Aug. 2026

Brian McNeil, Frontiers of Need: American Humanitarianism and the Nigerian Civil War, Cornell Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Ayhan Kaya & Nilay Kılınç, eds., Handbook on Diasporas and Migration, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2026

George Pleios, Ioanna Kostarella, Naya Kalfeli, Angelo Tramountanis, eds., Media and Migration in Southeastern Europe: Shaping Narratives and Policies, Routledge, Aug. 2026

Moussa Pourya Asl & Manju Jaidka, eds., Narratives of Crisis and Futurity: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices in Global South Asia, vol. 2, Springer, Aug. 2026

Maybritt D. Woodcock & Emily M. Feuerherm, eds., Trauma-Informed Applied Linguistics: Perspectives on Migration, Language and Resilience, Multilingual Matters, Aug. 2026

Open access:

Catherine R. Craven, Diaspora Governance in Practice: Tamil Diaspora Mobilization, Global Governance and Power in an Entangled World, Bristol University Press, Sept. 2026

*Gül Ince-Beqo, Diasporic Marginalities and the Second-Best Destination: Exploring Migration from Turkey to Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026 

Karolina Łukasiewicz, Marta Pachocka & Michał Nowosielski, eds., Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015, Springer, Aug. 2026

Nasir Uddin, Palash Kamruzzaman & Bayes Ahmed, eds., Politics of Denial and Non-Recognition of Genocide: The Case of the Rohingya, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026

Lucian N. Leustean, Religious Failure, Geopolitics, and Forced Displacement in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus, Central European University Press, Aug. 2026

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New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in August 2026, while Part 2 lists additional July 2026 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

August 2026:

Kelsey P. Norman &  Nicholas R. Micinski, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2026

John Kluge Jr. & Christine Mahoney, Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone, Columbia University Press, Aug. 2026

Chrysi Kyratsou, Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece: Refugees Musicking, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Ergün Özgür Liy, ed., Highly Qualified Immigrants and Refugees: Agency, Challenges and Opportunities across Europe – Türkiye, transcript Publishing, Aug. 2026

Giuseppe Motta, Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State, Routledge, Aug. 2026

Dalton T. Sirmans, The Refugee Advantage: Building Enterprise in the Face of Adversity, Bloomsbury, Aug. 2026

Bruce Bennett & Katarzyna Marciniak, Refugee Cinema, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Silvia Pasquetti, Refugees Together and Citizens Apart: Control, Emotions, and Politics at the Palestinian Margins. Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Manya Oriel Kagan, Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda: Rethinking Integration Policies, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Nicholas De Genova & Daniel I. Morales, eds., Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Struggles and the Law, Duke Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Chad Hoggan & Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert, Transitions, Learning, and Material Culture: Ukrainian War Refugees and the Objects They Carried, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

July 2026:

Purna Banerjee & Priya Singh, eds., Fractured Spaces: Intersectional Approaches to Migration and Displacement, Springer, July 2026 

 John Washington, Paperback, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, Haymarket Books, July 2026 

- Focuses on the US.

Jun Sung Hong, Jennifer M. Bondy & Anthony A. Peguero, eds., Violence and Trauma Without Borders: Perspectives of Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026

- Focuses on the US.

Legal texts:

Luísa Helena Lemos da Cruz, Claims to Refugee Status based on Domestic Violence: Exploring the Frontiers of International Refugee Law with the Guidance of International Human Rights Law, Editora Dialética, July 2026

Thomas Mulder, Solidarity in International Disaster Response Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2026

Open access:

Edanur Yazici, The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice, Policy Press, July 2026

Chiara Scissa, Disaster Displacement and International Protection in the EU: Challenges, Misconceptions, and the Way Forward, Routledge, July 2026

Nóra Béres, ed., International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law: From the Perspective of Human Rights Law, Central European Academic Publishing, July 2026

Victorie Knox, Organised Crime and Migration: Criminal Groups, Corruption and the Displacement Crisis in Central America and Mexico, Univ. of London Press, June 2026

Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Jade Siu & Olivier Sterck, The Refugee Trap: The Economics of Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2026

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

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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

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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

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New Books: March 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in March 2026, while Part 2 lists additional February 2026 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

March 2026:

Violetta Hionidou & Dimitris Skleparis, eds., Across the Aegean: A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey, 1922-2022, Routledge, March 2026

Victoria Abrahamyan, Armenian Refugees in French Mandate Syria: Statelessness and Nation-Building in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, March 2026

Molly Fee, Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement, Univ. of California Press, March 2026

Paolo Boccagni & Thomas Lacroix, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place, Bristol Univ. Press, March 2026

Francesca Esposito, Teresa Degenhardt & Annika Lindberg, eds., Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19, Policy Press, March 2026

Julia F. Irwin, Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2026

Melissa Hauber-Özer, Investment in Second Language Learning and Higher Education: Narratives of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Universities, Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, March 2026

Emily R. Crawford, Bryan Mann, Meredith Bittel & Ryan Rumpf, eds., Leading for Refugees and Newcomers: Cases for K-12 Schools, Harvard Education Press, March 2026 

Francis L. Collins, Sin Yee Koh & Brenda S.A. Yeoh, eds., Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge, Edward Elgar, March 2026

Carmen Santamaría-García & Eija Ventola, eds., A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants, Routledge, March 2026

Nasreen Chowdhory & Priya Singh, eds., New Frontiers in the Register of Migration and Refugee Studies, Springer, March 2026

Čarna Brković, Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans: From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics, Indiana Univ. Press, March 2026

Emilio Rodríguez, ed., A Renewed Canadian Welcome: Eleven Visions from Migrants and Advocates, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, March 2026

New Books: March 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

February 2026:

Judit Szente, Education of Young Children Caught in Disasters: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Interventions, Springer, Feb. 2026

Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, Anna Gotlib, Ryoa Chung & Deborah Zion, eds., Forced Migration and Health Justice, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Bayes Ahmed & Bishawjit Mallick, eds., Handbook on Climate Mobility, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2026 

Gabrielle Daoust & Synne L. Dyvik, Humanitarianism in the Home: Hosting-at-home and the Politics of Hospitality, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Mălina Ciocea, ed., Ukrainian Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe: Public Debates, Strategic Narratives and Practices, Springer, 2026 

Legal texts:

Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, eds., Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

*Emilie McDonnell, Protecting the Right to Leave in an Era of Externalised Migration Control, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026 

Spyridoula Katsoni, Shared Responsibility for Multiple International Persons' Contribution to a Refoulement, Springer, Feb. 2026 

Open access:

Carolin Funke & Dennis Dijkzeul, Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises: Robust Human Rights Norms?, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2025

Grażyna Baranowska & Milica Kolaković-Bojović, eds., Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Michelle Obeid, Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2025

Maja Hertoghs, Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus: An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power, Berghahn Books, March 2026

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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

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

Mark Rainey, Restless Justice: Asylum, Homelessness and Volunteering, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the UK. 

Claudio Minca & Yolanda Weima, eds., Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

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

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

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, 2nd ed., 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

Ana Carden-Coyne, Chrisoula Lionis, Angeliki Roussou & Charles Green, Understanding Displacement Aesthetics: History, Art, and Museums, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Anne Ring Petersen, Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement: Contemporary Art and Refugee Experience in Denmark, transcript Verlag, Dec. 2025 

New Books: December 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in December 2025, while Part 2 lists additional November 2025 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

December 2025:

Eleni Chasioti, Clothes and Textiles of Anatolian Greek Refugees: Embodied Memories on Display, Lived Places Publishing, Dec. 2025

- Note: The title displayed on the image of the book cover is different: The Clothes Anatolian Greek Refugees Wore: Items Brought When Fleeing in the 20th Century.

Mirna Carranza, The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home, Lived Places Publishing, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Canada.

Bobby Luthra Sinha, Nirmala Devi Gopal, Annapurna Devi Pandey & Ashutosh Kumar, eds., Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities, Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States, Routledge, Dec. 2025 

Franziska Werner, Philipp Piechura, Carla Bormann & Ingrid Breckner, eds., (Forced) Migration and Space: An Introduction to a Space-Sensitive Approach in (Forced) Migration Studies, Springer, Dec. 2025

Gusztáv D. Kecskés & Tamás Scheibner, eds., A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief: From Local Crisis to Global Impact, De Gruyter, Dec. 2025

Henrik Kjellmo Larsen, How Spontaneous Volunteers Disrupt the Management of Forced Migrants and Life Seekers, Springer, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Greece.

Susanne Korbel & Philipp Strobl, eds., Practices of Reunification: The Continuation of Refugee Life after 1945, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Valerie Preston, John Shields & Tara Bedard, eds., Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Canada.

Nimo Bokore, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees, Springer, Dec. 2025

Michelle Pace, Un-welcome to Denmark: The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration, Manchester Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

Bernadette Ludwig, Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America, Rutgers Univ. Press, Dec. 2025