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: 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: November 2025 - Pt. 1

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

November 2025:

Josip Obradović & Sampson Lee Blair, eds., Families and Migration: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration, Emerald Publishing, Nov. 2025

Marketa Bacakova, Wayne Veck & Julie Wharton, eds., Forced Migration, Disability and Education: Inclusion and Exclusion at the Intersection of Displacement and Disablement, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Karen Jacobsen, Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings, Yale Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Tual Sawn Khai, Irregular Migration in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Barriers to Regularization and Healthcare, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše &Tea Škokić, eds., Keywords of the Balkan Route: The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery, Berghahn Books, Nov. 2025

Adèle Garnier, Sarah Dubuc & Christina R. Clark-Kazak, eds., and Lyse Hébert, transl., La migration forcée au Canada, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Rachel Hoare, Psychological Support for Refugee Adolescents: An Expressive Arts Approach to Wellbeing and Trauma Recovery, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Eva Plach, Relief on the Hoof: The Seagoing Cowboys, the Heifer Project, and UNRRA in Poland, Northern Illinois University Press, Nov. 2025

Joseph Musasizi, Dharma Arunachalam & Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rethinking Refugee-Host Relations: Cultural Proximity and Historical Links, Routledge, Nov. 2025 

New Books: November 2023 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in November 2023, while Part 2 lists new October 2023 titles and open access texts.

November 2023:

Robert Rydzewski, The Balkan Route: Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces, Routledge, Nov. 2023

Mauricio Espinoza, Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez & Ignacio Sarmiento, eds., Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century, Univ. of Arizona Press, Nov. 2023

Rup Kumar Barman, The Enclaves of the India-Bangladesh Border: History, Statelessness and Bilateral Relations, Routledge, Nov. 2023

Jill Rosenthal, From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border, Duke Univ. Press, Nov. 2023

Laura Robson, Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work, Verso Books, Nov. 2023

Sarah Cox, Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families: An Ecological, Multilingual Approach to Language Learning, Multilingual Matters, Nov. 2023

Francesca Soliman, Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa, Routledge, Nov. 2023

Nicoletta Policek, Stateless as a Site of Fear: Stateless Women's Experiences of Interpersonal Violence, ibidem Press, Nov. 2023

New Books: October 2023

October 2023:

Miriam Geerse, The Everyday Violence of Forced Displacement: Memory, Community and Identity Politics among Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey, Lexington Books, Oct. 2023

Ramón Spaaij, Carla Luguetti & Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, eds., Forced Migration and Sport: Critical Dialogues Across International Contexts and Disciplinary Boundaries, Routledge, Oct. 2023

Karen Jacobsen & Nassim Majidi, eds., Handbook on Forced Migration, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2023

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Humanitarian Extractivism: The Digital Transformation of Aid, Manchester Univ. Press, Oct. 2023 

Elisabeth Piller & Neville Wylie, eds., Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24, Manchester Univ. Press, Oct. 2023 

Marko Kmezić, Alexandra Prodromidou & Pavlos Gkasis, eds., Migration, EU Integration and the Balkan Route, Oct. 2023

Louis Brehony, Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance, American Univ. in Cairo Press, Oct. 2023

Ruth Balint, Joy Damousi & Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds., When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Academic, Oct. 2023

September 2023:

Evgenia Iliadou, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe, Bristol Univ. Press, Sept. 2023

Fethi Mansouri, The Global Politics of Forced Migration: An Australian Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2023 

Eliot Dickinson, Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact, Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2023 

Karina Horsti, Survival and Witness at Europe's Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster, Cornell Univ. Press, Sept. 2023

Thomas DeVere Wolsey & Ibrahim M. Karkouti, eds., Teaching Refugees and Displaced Students: What Every Educator Should Know, Springer, Sept. 2023

Legal text:

Hugo Storey, The Refugee Definition in International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2023

Open access:

Magdalena Kmak, Law, Migration, and Human Mobility: Mobile Law, Routledge, Sept. 2023 

Asli Selin Okyay, Luca Barana & Colleen Elizabeth Boland, eds., Moving Towards Europe: Diverse Trajectories and Multidimensional Drivers of Migration across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Peter Lang, Aug. 2023

 

New Books: September 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

August 2023:

Elaine Chase, Nando Sigona & Dawn Chatty, eds., Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions, Springer, Aug. 2023

Kalyani Ramnath, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2023

Noa Shaindlinger, Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope, Edinburgh Univ. Press, Aug. 2023

Hakan Shearer Demir, Displacement Governance and the Illusion of Integration: From Population Movement to Movement of the People, Springer, Aug. 2023

David Carment & Yiagadeesen Samy, eds., Handbook of Fragile States, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2023 

Devorah Wainer, Human Rights for Refugees and Other Marginalised Persons: A Midrash Methodology, Springer, Aug. 2023

Chiara Renzo, Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951, Routledge, Aug. 2023

Bojan Aleksov, Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945, Brill, Aug. 2023 

Elspeth Guild, ed., Monitoring Border Violence in the EU: Frontex in Focus, Routledge, Aug. 2023

Wendell C. Wallace, ed., The Movement of Venezuelans to the Americas and the Caribbean in the 21st Century, Springer, Aug. 2023

Yana Meerzon & S.E Wilmer, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration, Springer, Aug. 2023

Fernando Chang-Muy & Elaine Congress, eds., Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and Advocacy, 3rd ed., Springer Publishing Company, Aug. 2023

New Books: June 2023

June 2023:

Kim Huynh, Australia’s Refugee Politics in the 21st Century: STOP THE BOATS!, Routledge, June 2023

Patricia K. Kubow, Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-Islamic Ontologies, Routledge, June 2023

Selma Porobić & Brad K. Blitz, eds., Forced Migration, Gender and Wellbeing: The Long-Term Effects of Displacement on Women, Edward Elgar, June 2023

Paolo Boccagni, ed., Handbook on Home and Migration, Edward Elgar, June 2023

Gihan Karunaratne, ed., Informal Settlements of the Global South, Routledge, June 2023

 Ida Marie Savio Vammen, Signe Cold-Ravnkilde & Hans Lucht, eds., The Long Shadow of the Border: Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in Africa, Routledge, June 2023

Jeffra Flaitz, Refugee Students: What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know, Univ. of Michigan Press, June 2023

May 2023:

Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe, Univ. of Chicago Press, May 2023 

Adelina Miranda & Antía Pérez-Caramés, eds., Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean: Exchanges, Conflicts and Coexistence, Edward Elgar, May 2023

- Note: The introduction, foreword and first chapter are freely available and chapter 9 is open access.

Amit Ranjan & Diotima Chattoraj, eds., Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia: Searching for a Home(land), Springer, May 2023

Estella Carpi, The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon, Indiana Univ. Press, May 2023

Annamaria Fabian, ed., The Representation of REFUGEES and MIGRANTS in European National Media Discourses from 2015 to 2017: A Contrastive Approach (Corpus Linguistics), J.B. Metzler, May 2023

Legal text:

Oreva Olakpe, South-South Migrations and the Law from Below: Case Studies on China and Nigeria, Hart Publishing, May 2023

Open access:

Maurizio Ambrosini & Minke H.J. Hajer, Irregular Migration: IMISCOE Short Reader, Springer, May 2023

Magdalena Nordin & Jonas Otterbeck, Migration and Religion: IMISCOE Short Reader, Springer, May 2023

New Books: November 2019 - Pt. 2 (Europe)

November 2019:

Russell King & Nermin Oruc, eds., Migration in the Western Balkans: What Do We Know?, Routledge, Nov. 2019

Philipp Ther, The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492, Princeton Univ. Press, Nov. 2019

October 2019:

Wilfried Zoungrana, No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany, Brill, Oct. 2019

Gökçe Bayındır Goularas, Işıl Zeynep Turkan İpek & Edanur Önel, eds., Refugee Crises and Migration Policies: From Local to Global, Lexington Books, Oct. 2019

September 2019:

Greg  Burgess, Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945–1995, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2019

Belachew Gebrewold, Johanna Kostenzer & Andreas Th. Müller, eds., Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Lessons from Europe, Routledge, Sept. 2019

Legal text:

Izabella Majcher, The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law: Analysis of Return Decision, Entry Ban, Detention, and Removal, Brill, Nov. 2019

Open access:

Paul Minderhoud, Sandra Mantu & Karin Zwaan, eds., Caught in Between Borders: Citizens, Migrants and Humans -  Liber Amicorum in Honour of  Prof. Dr. Elspeth Guild, Wolf Legal Publishers, Sept. 2019

Sophie Hinger & Reinhard Schweitzer, eds., Politics of (Dis)Integration, Springer, Oct. 2019

Marco Martiniello, Bart Meuleman, Andrea Rea & Alessandro Mazzola, eds., The Refugee Reception Crisis: Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, Oct. 2019