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

New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 1

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

October 2025:

Marla A. Ramírez, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andriani Fili, Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Eram Alam, The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Gentille Dusenge, A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life: More to Life than a Refugee Camp, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

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

Sarah Scott Ford, Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region: Legal Sociology and Human Rights, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Marco Palillo, Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Leila Hudson, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced, Syracuse Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Loretta E. Bass, ed., Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration Around the World, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2025

- Note: One chapter is open access.

Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, ed., Research with Refugee Children and Families: Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights, UBC Press, Oct. 2025 

New Books: February 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in February 2024 as well as new legal texts, while Part 2 lists new January 2024 titles and open access texts.

February 2024:

Eithne Nightingale, Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day, Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2024 

Susan J. Terrio, Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope, NYU Press, Feb. 2024

- Focuses on Central Americans in the US.

Ali Bhagat, Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism, Cornell University Press, Feb. 2024

Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha & Tobias Denskus, eds., Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2024

Jennifer Riggan & Amanda Poole, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence, Indiana Univ. Press, Feb. 2024

Rituparna Roy, Jayanta Sengupta & Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations, Routledge India, Feb. 2024

Afaf Jabiri, Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2024

Legal texts:

Andreas Zimmermann, Terje Einarsen & Franziska M. Herrmann, eds., The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2024

Emma Dunlop, Ensuring Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2024

New Books: February 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

January 2024:

Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, Penguin Press, Jan. 2024

Ettore Recchi & Mirna Safi, eds., Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2024

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Alexandra Délano Alonso, eds., New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race, and Dispossession, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Jan. 2024 

Francesca Fauri & Debora  Mantovani, eds., Past and Present Migration Challenges: What European and American History Can Teach Us, Springer, Jan. 2024

Marie McAuliffe & Céline Bauloz, eds., Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2024

Senthan Selvarajah, Nesrin Kenar, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw & Pradeep Dhakal, eds., Xenophobia in the Media: Critical Global Perspectives, Routledge, Jan. 2024 

 

Open access:

Hanspeter Kriesi, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Ábel Bojár & Ioana-Elena Oană, Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2024

Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff & Miriam Wallraven, eds., Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media, De Gruyter, Oct. 2023

Rashmi Luthra, Destination Detroit: Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City, Univ. of Michigan Press, Jan. 2024

 Mastoureh Fathi & Caitríona Ní Laoire, Migration and Home: IMISCOE Short Reader, Springer, Jan. 2024

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: May 2023

May 2023:

Janet Polasky, Asylum between Nations: Refugees in a Revolutionary Era, Yale Univ. Press, May 2023 

René Kreichauf & Birgit Glorius, eds., Displacement, Asylum and the City: Understanding Migration Processes through Urban Studies Approaches, Routledge, May 2023 

James A. Banks, ed., Global Migration and Civic Education: Research, Policy, and Practice, Routledge, May 2023

Renée Hirschon, Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus, 3rd ed., Berghahn Books, May 2023 

Yoku Shaw-Taylor, ed., Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland, Bernan Press, May 2023

Regina Serpa, Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System, Routledge, May 2023

Lynn Butler-Kisber, Kelly Clark/Keefe & Maggi Savin-Baden, eds., Narrative Inquiry of Displacement: Stories of Challenge, Change and Resilience, Routledge, May 2023 

Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud & Nasser Yassin, eds., Refugee Resilience and Adaptation in the Middle East: Reclaiming Agency in the Informal Economies of Lebanon and Jordan, Routledge, May 2023

Anjali Roy & Nandi Bhatia, eds., Regional Perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points, Routledge, May 2023 

Tom Bishop & Alexa Alice Joubin, eds., The Shakespearean International Yearbook - 19: Special Section, Shakespeare and Refugees, Routledge, May 2023

Victor Gilbert Faraux, Suspicion de minorité…: Mineurs non accompagnés, Éditions du Panthéon, May 2023

Tina Rae, Understanding and Supporting Refugee Children and Young People: A Practical Resource for Teachers, Parents and Carers of Those Exposed to the Trauma of War, Routledge, May 2023 

April 2023:

Rigmor Argren & Jessica Jonsson, eds., Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis: Improving Action and Response, Routledge, April 2023

Kevin Kenny, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2023

Angelina Y. Chin, Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War, Columbia University Press, April 2023

Alejandra Díaz de León, Walking Together: Central Americans and Transit Migration Through Mexico, Univ. of Arizona Press, April 2023

Elizabeth Bose O. Bien-Aime, The Zampa Law: Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Minors in Italy, Mystery Publishers, April 2023

Open access:

Claudia Finotelli & Irene Ponzo, Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe: A North-South Comparison, Springer, April 2023

Max O. Stephenson Jr. & Yannis A. Stivachtis, eds., Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States: National and Institutional Perspectives, E-International Relations, April 2023 

New Books: April 2020 - Pt. 1

Part 2 lists books published in March 2020 as well as new Open Access texts.

April 2020:

Francis Musoni, Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa, Indiana Univ. Press, April 2020

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism: After the Dayton Peace Agreement, Palgrave Pivot, April 2020

Jacqueline Jenkinson, Colonial, Refugee and Allied Civilians after the First World War: Immigration Restriction and Mass Repatriation, Routledge, April 2020

Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, Univ. of Minnesota Press, April 2020

Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya & Janna Graham, How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2020

Marie-Claire Foblets & Luc Leboeuf, eds., Humanitarian Admission to Europe: The Law between Promises and Constraints, Nomos/Hart Publishing, April 2020

Kelsey Freeman, No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border, Ig Publishing, April 2020

J. David Kinzie & George A. Keepers, eds., The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, April 2020

Adam Teller, Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, Princeton Univ. Press, April 2020

Donatella Di Cesare, Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration, Polity Books, April 2020

New Books: August 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in August. There are also a few references to books published in June and July as well as a legal text.

August 2019:

Khaled Hassine, Handling Climate Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2019

Hamza Safouane, Stories of Border Crossers: A Critical Inquiry into Forced Migrants’ Journey Narratives to the European Union, Springer, Aug. 2019

Nina Maadad, Syrian Refugee Children in Australia and Sweden: Education and Survival among the Displaced, Dispossessed and Disrupted, Routledge, August 2019

Peter, Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent, Basic Books, August 2019

July 2019:

Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel & Sam Tyano, eds., An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health, Springer, July 2019

Robin Andersen & Adrian Bergmann, Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence, Routledge, July 2019

Sinja Hantscher, The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019

June 2019:

Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara & Tineke Strik, eds., Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered, Edward Elgar, June 2019
- Note: Chapter 1 is freely available.

Legal text:

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, August 2019

New Books: April 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in April. There are also a few references to books published in March, as well as links to new legal texts and an open access text.

April 2019:

Beth C. Caldwell, Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico, Duke Univ. Press, April 2019

Lindsey N. Kingston, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019

Karly S. Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger, eds., Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration: A Comprehensive Study on Integration Processes in Western Europe and North America, De Gruyter, April 2019

Nick Thorpe, The Road Before Me Weeps: On the Refugee Route through Europe, Yale Univ. Press, April 2019 

Jonathan Freedman & Steven Mayers, eds., Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America, Haymarket Books, April 2019 

Jennifer Kling, War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility, Lexington Books, April 2019

March 2019:

Susanna Price & Jane Singer, eds., Country Frameworks for Development Displacement and Resettlement: Reducing Risk, Building Resilience, Routledge, March 2019 

Christine Crudo Blackburn & Paul E. Lenze, Jr., Syrian Forced Migration and Public Health in the European Union, Lexington Books, March 2019

New legal texts:

Agnieszka Kubal, Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia: Socio-Legal Perspectives, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2019 

Vincent Chetail, International Migration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019 

Michelle Foster & Hélène Lambert, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019

Open access:

Martin Ruhs, Kristof Tamas & Joakim Palme, eds., Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy Making on Migration and Integration, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2019