New Books: May 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books & legal texts due out in May 2025, while Part 2 lists additional April 2025 titles as well as new open access items.

May 2025:

Irene I. Vega, Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality, Princeton Univ. Press, May 2025 

Dawn Chatty & Marcus Colchester, eds., Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development, 2nd ed., Berghahn Books, May 2025

Chiho Ochiai, Sandra Carrasco & Sung Lun Tsai, eds., Disaster and Displacement: Exploring the Physical and Social Dimensions of Resettlement and Reconstruction, Springer, May 2025

Gihan Karunaratne, ed., Displaced Urbanism, Routledge, May 2025

Khalid Arar, Emily R. Crawford, Deniz Örücü & Ira Bogotch, eds., Education, Immigration and Migration: Revisiting and Re-Imagining Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World, 2nd ed., Emerald Publishing, May 2025

Christian H Kälin, ed., Free Global Cities: The Future Leaders in Migration and Public Governance, Hart Publishing, May 2025

Danielle Battisti & S. Deborah Kang, eds., Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States, Univ. of Illinois Press, May 2025 

Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu & Daniel Ahadi, eds., Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, Routledge, May 2025

Avijit Mistri, Md. Selim Reja & Bhaswati Das, eds., Migration Studies: The Fundamentals, Routledge, May 2025

Kolleen Guy & Jay Winter, eds., Statelessness after Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War, Manchester Univ. Press, May 2025

Legal texts:

Heather Jean Alexander, The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomadic Peoples Under International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2025

Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, Protection of Human Life at Sea in International Law: Rescuing Maritime Migrants, Routledge, May 2025

New Books: May 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in May 2024 along with additional April 2024 titles, while Part 2 lists new open access texts.

May 2024:

Erin P. Riggs, A Contemporary Archaeology of Post-Displacement Resettlement: Delhi’s 1947 Partition Refugee Homescapes, Routledge, May 2024 

Jacqueline Stevenson & Sally Baker, Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, 2nd ed., Emerald Publishing, May 2024

Özlem Ögtem-Young, The Shape of Belonging for Unaccompanied Young Migrants, Bristol Univ. Press, May 2024

Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, New Press, May 2024

April 2024:

Ana Raquel Minian, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States, Penguin Random House, April 2024 

Hyoungah Park, North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants, Refugees, or Human Trafficking Victims, Lexington Books, April 2024

Bosco Opi, Refugee Coloniality: An Afrocentric Analysis of Prolonged Encampment in Kenya, Springer, April 2024

Jungwon Yeo, ed., Return Migration and Crises in Non-Western Countries, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2024

Kawser Ahmed & Md. Rafiqul Islam, eds., Understanding the Rohingya Displacement: Security, Media, and Humanitarian Perspectives, Springer, April 2024

Camille Schmoll, Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea, Springer, April 2024

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: December 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

November 2022:

Armelle Gouritin, Climate Displacement in Mexico: Towards Vulnerable Population Protection, Nov. 2022

Phillip Cole, Global Displacement in the Twenty-first Century: Towards an Ethical Framework, Edinburgh University Press, Nov. 2022

Kevin Ostoyich & Yun Xia, eds., The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2022

Nancy J. Murakami & Mashura Akilova, eds., Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons, Springer, Nov. 2022

Irina Mützelburg, Transferring Asylum Norms to EU Neighbours: Multi-Scalar Policies and Practices in Ukraine, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2022

Legal text:

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2022

Open access:

Aylin Yildiz Noorda, Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move: Providing Protection under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2022

Barbara von Rütte, The Human Right to Citizenship: Situating the Right to Citizenship within International and Regional Human Rights Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2022

Irina Isaakyan, Anna Triandafyllidou & Simone Baglioni, eds., Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand - A Biographical Perspective, Springer, Nov. 2022

Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker & Christoph Reinprecht, eds., Internment Refugee Camps: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, transcript Verlag, Nov. 2022

Seyda Subasi Singh, Olja Jovanović Milanović & Michelle Proyer, eds., Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Nov. 2022

New Books: January 2021

New titles published in January 2021 and December 2020 are listed below, as well as a new open access text.

January 2021: 

Fiorenza Picozza, The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield, Jan. 2021

David Fernández-Rojo, EU Migration Agencies: The Operation and Cooperation of FRONTEX, EASO and EUROPOL, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2021

Elżbieta M. Goździak, Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2021

Swati Akshay Sachdeva & Yumnam Surjyajeevan, Identity in Question: The Study of Tibetan Refugees in the Indian Himalayas, Vernon Press, Jan. 2021

Jamie D. Aten & Jenny Hwang, eds., Refugee Mental Health, American Psychological Association, Jan. 2021

December 2020:

Simeon S. Magliveras, ed., Agency and Immigration Policy, Transnational Press London, Dec. 2020

Sabella O. Abidde, ed., The Challenges of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, Springer, Dec. 2020

Jarmila Ptáčková, Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects, Univ. of Washington Press, Dec. 2020

Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton & Ayesha Siddiqi , eds., The Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020

Samina Iqbal, A Practical Guide to Claims for Unlawful Detention and False Imprisonment in Immigration and Asylum Cases, Law Brief Publishing, Dec. 2020

- Focuses on the UK.

Open access:

Laura Affolter, Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020

New Books: May 2020

May 2020:

Melissa Schnyder and Noha Shawki, Advocating for Refugees in the European Union: Norm-Based Strategies by Civil-Society Organizations, Rowman & Littlefield, May 2020

A. Naomi Paik, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, Univ. of California Press, May 2020

Jean-François Véran, Doris Burtscher & Beverley Stringer, eds., Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration, Routledge, May 2020

Jochen Lingelbach, On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War, Berghahn Books, May 2020

Beata Halicka, The Polish Wild West: Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948, Routledge, May 2020

Jessy Abouarab, Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity through a Feminist Lens: The Case of Lebanon, Rowman & Littlefield, May 2020

Rachel Sharples, Spaces of Solidarity: Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands, Berghahn Books, May 2020

Tom Scott-Smith & Mark E. Breeze, eds., Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter, Berghahn Books, May 2020

April 2020:

John Washington, The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond, Verso Books, April 2020

Tom Scott-Smith, On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, Cornell Univ. Press, April 2020

Swen Steinberg & Anthony Grenville, eds., Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories, Brill, April 2020

Legal texts:

Lili Song, Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press, May 2020

Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud & Elspeth Guild, eds., EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights: Taking Supranational Citizenship Seriously, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2020

Valsamis Mitsilegas, Violeta Moreno-Lax & Niovi Vavoula, eds., Securitising Asylum Flows: Deflection, Criminalisation and Challenges for Human Rights, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2020

New Books: November 2019 - Pt. 1

See below for new books due out in November. There are also references to books published in October 2019, as well as a new legal text.

This is part 1 of a two-part listing. All books referenced in part 2 focus on Europe.

November 2019:

Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles & Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, 6th ed., Macmillan, Nov. 2019

Laura Moran, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity, Rutgers Univ. Press, Nov. 2019
- Focus is on Australia.

Shauna Labman, Crossing Law's Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program, UBC Press, Nov. 2019

Christophe Declercq & Federico M. Federici, eds., Intercultural Crisis Communication: Translation, Interpreting and Languages in Local Crises, Bloomsbury, Nov. 2019

B. Heidi Ellis, Saida M. Abdi & Jeffrey P. Winer, Mental Health Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Socioecological Framework, American Psychological Assoc., Nov. 2019

John Winterdyk & Jackie Jones, eds., The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2019

October 2019:

Peter Billings, Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics, and Society, Springer, Oct. 2019

David Hollenbach, Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees, Georgetown Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Nergis Canefe,, ed., Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global South, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Roberto G. Gonzales, Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco & Anna Papoutsi, Undocumented Migration, Polity Press, Oct. 2019

Legal text:

Guofu Liu, Chinese Refugee Law, Brill, Nov. 2019

New Books: October 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in October. There are also references to books published in September as well as several new legal texts.

October 2019:

Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, Simon & Schuster, Oct. 2019

Gil Richard Musolf, ed., Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope, Emerald Books, Oct. 2019

Susanna M. Hoffman & Roberto E. Barrios, eds., Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2019

Cynthia Anderson, Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town, Public Affairs Books, Oct. 2019

Meryam Schouler-Ocak and Marianne C. Kastrup, eds., Intercultural Psychotherapy: For Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Minority Patients, Springer, Oct. 2019

Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli & David Jacobson, eds., Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2019

Clarke Rountree & Jouni Tilli, eds., National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods, Michigan State Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Şule Can, Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads, Routledge, Oct. 2019

Rania M. Rafik Khalil & Froilan T. Malit, Jr, eds., Recent Migrations and Refugees in the MENA Region, Transnational Press, Oct. 2019

Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Jill Casner-Lotto & Teresita B. Wisell, eds., Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All: How Community Colleges and Immigrants are Changing America, Rowman & Littlefield, Oct. 2019

September 2019:

Albert Ali Salah, Alex Pentland, Bruno Lepri & Emmanuel Letouzé, eds., Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study, Springer, Sept. 2019

Shane Joshua Barter & William Ascher, eds., Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration, Peter Lang, Sept. 2019

Nicos Trimikliniotis, Migration and the Refugee Dissensus in Europe: Borders, Security and Austerity, Routledge, Sept. 2019

William D. Lopez, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Sept. 2019

Guang Pan, A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945): History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern, Springer, Sept. 2019

Ugur Yildiz, Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Mobility of Non-European Refugees to Canada via Turkey, Routledge, Sept. 2019

Legal texts:

Dree K. Collopy, AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 8th ed., American Immigration Lawyers Association, Aug. 2019

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Leah Zamore, The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, Stanford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019

New Books: March 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in March. There are also additional references to books published in February.

March 2019:

Terence Chun Tat Shum, Asylum-Seeking Journeys in Asia: Refugees in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Routledge, March 2019

Nancy Hiemstra, Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime, Univ. of Georgia Press, March 2019

Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Metropolitan Books, March 2019

David Scott FitzGerald, Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, Oxford University Press, March 2019

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

Bridget M. Haas & Amy Shuman, Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum, Ohio University Press, March 2019

February 2019:

Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones & Jennifer L. Fluri, eds., Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2019

Khalid Arar, Kussai Haj-Yehia, David B Ross & Yasar Kondakci, eds., Higher Education Challenges for Migrant and Refugee Students in a Global World, Peter Lang, Feb. 2019

Deborah A. Boehm & Susan J. Terrio, eds., Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People, NYU Press, Feb. 2019

Sudha Rajput, Internal Displacement and Conflict: The Kashmiri Pandits in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Feb. 2019