New Books: April 2025

April 2025:

Nadia El-Shaarawi, Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War, Univ. of California Press, April 2025 

Zeynep Kilicoglu, Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures, Routledge, April 2025

Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge & Evan Smith, eds., Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949, Brill, April 2025

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Rachel Humphris, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, Stanford Univ. Press, April 2025

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

* Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko & Anindita Ghoshal, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Daniel Briggs, Sheltering Strangers: Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees, Policy Press, April 2025

March 2025:

Sara Mazzei, Arab-Islamic Education Systems in the Experience of Migrants and Refugees in Europe: An Historical and Cultural Analysis Focused on Morocco, Syria, Italy, Germany and Sweden, Springer, March 2025 

Julie Matthews & Quentin Maire, eds., A Modern Guide to Refugee Education: Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices, Edward Elgar, March 2025 

Matthew Davis, Third Sector Organisations, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Support During Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025 

Jennifer Moore, Women’s Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2025 

Open access:

Rachel Benchekroun, Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-migration in the UK, UCL Press, March 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: September 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

August 2021:

Christian Harkensee, Karen Olness & B. Emily Esmaili, eds., Child Refugee and Migrant Health: A Manual for Health Professionals, Springer, Aug. 2021

Grace Mieszkalski & Benjamin Zyla, Engaging Displaced Populations in a Future Syrian Transitional Justice Process: The Peacebuilding-Transitional Justice Nexus, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2021

Marco Zoppi, Horizons of Security: The Somali Safety Net in Scandinavia, Rowman & Littlefield, Aug. 2021

Lorena Gazzotti, Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2021

Zaki Nahaboo & Nathan Kerrigan, Migrants, Borders and the European Question: The Calais Jungle, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2021

Doris S. Warriner, ed., Refugee Education across the Lifespan: Mapping Experiences of Language Learning and Use, Springer, Aug. 2021

Legal texts:

Mai Kaneko-Iwase, Nationality of Foundlings: Avoiding Statelessness Among Children of Unknown Parents Under International Nationality Law, Springer, Sept. 2021

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law, 4th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Open access:

Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The Built Environment as an Added Educator in East African Refugee Camps, UCL Press, Aug. 2021

Anna Ball, Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements, Routledge, Sept. 2021

- Note: Access to the text will not be available until 22 Sept.

Susanne Fengler, Monika Lengauer & Anna-Carina Zappe, eds., Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators, UNESCO, July 2021

Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain & Allan Lavell, eds., Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South, UCL Press, June 2021

New Books: May 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

April 2021:

Ana Ndumu, ed., Borders and Belonging: Critical Examinations of Library Approaches toward Immigrants, Library Juice Press, April 2021

Ioana Vrăbiescu, Deporting Europeans: The Racialized Mobility of Romanians in France, Lexington Books, April 2021 

Chin-Peng Chu & Sang-Chul Park, eds., Immigration Policy and Crisis in the Regional Context: Asian and European Experiences, Springer, April 2021

Catherine Dauvergne, ed., Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, May 2021 

Tómas Joensen & Ian Taylor, eds., Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: Politics and Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Open access:

Veronica Federico & Simone Baglioni, eds., Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets: A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers, Springer, May 2021

Ephraim Pörtner, Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve, transcript Verlag, May 2021

- Note: The complete text will be made available as of 27 May 2021.

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe: Debating Solidarity Across Borders, Routledge, April 2021 

Jussi S. Jauhiainen & Miriam Tedeschi, Undocumented Migrants and Their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland, Springer, May 2021 

Legal text:

Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Philip G. Schrag, The End of Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, May 2021

New Books: February 2021

New titles published in January & February 2021 are listed below, along with a new legal text.

February 2021:

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021 

Andrew Geddes, Governing Migration Beyond the State: Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia in a Global Context, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Ma Vang, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Julius Fein, Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021 

Ralf Roßkopf & Katharina Heilmann, eds., International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine & Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, eds., Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management, Routledge, Feb. 2021

Elisabeth Yarbakhsh, Iranian Hospitality, Afghan Marginality: Spaces of Refuge and Belonging in the City of Shiraz, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021

Ken R. Crane, Iraqi Refugees in the United States: The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror, NYU Press, Feb. 2021

Lynne Jones, The Migrant Diaries, Fordham Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Geoffrey Cameron, Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Marcus Herz & Philip Lalander, Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child, Routledge, Feb. 2021

January 2021:

Larry Hollingworth, Aid Memoir, Fordham Univ. Press, Jan. 2021 

- Account of the author's time "as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s."

Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2021

Joe Cropp, The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars, Routledge, Jan. 2021

Legal texts:

Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2021

- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."

New Books: November 2020 - Pt. 1

New titles published in November 2020 are listed below. See part 2 for new titles from October 2020 and newly released open access texts.

November 2020:

Karen Akoka, L'Asile et l'Exil: Une Histoire de la Distinction Réfugiés/Migrants, Éditions La Découverte, Nov. 2020

Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine, eds., Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry, PM Press/Kairos, Nov. 2020

- See also info on discounts for this title.

Matthew Scott & Albert Salamanca, eds., Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Daniel Briggs, Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Sujit Kumar Mishra & R. Siva Prasad, Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion: Political Economy of Development in India, Routledge & Aakar Books, Nov. 2020

Adriana Mica, Anna Horolets, Mikołaj Pawlak & Paweł Kubicki, Ignorance and Change: Anticipatory Knowledge and the European Refugee Crisis, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Victoria Carty, The Immigration Crisis in Europe and the U.S.-Mexico Border in the New Era of Heightened Nativism, Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2020 

Magdalena Suerbaum, Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt, I.B. Tauris, Nov. 2020

Joanna McIntyre & Fran Abrams, Refugee Education: Theorising Practice in Schools, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Kelsey P. Norman, Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, Nov. 2020

William L. Partridge & David B. Halmo, Resettling Displaced Communities: Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement, Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2020

New Books: April 2020 - Pt. 2

March 2020:

Giuliana Laschi, Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes, eds., Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992), Routledge, March 2020

Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico & Douglas H. Ubelaker, eds., Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, 2 vols., Wiley, March 2020

Izabella Majcher, Michael Flynn & Mariette Grange, Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the 'Crisis', Springer, March 2020

Gillian Brock, Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2020

Olga Oleinikova, Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes: Achiever or Survivor?, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2020

Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer & James Crossland, eds., The Red Cross Movement: Myths, Practices and Turning Points, Manchester University Press, March 2020

Elodie Rémy, Réfugiés: L'Hébergement chez des Particuliers - Des Liens Qui Rendent Libres,  L'Harmattan, March 2020

Pamela Ballinger, The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy, Cornell University Press, March 2020

Open Access:

Charles Oberg, ed., Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children, MDPI, March 2020

Julian Agyeman & Sydney Giacalone, eds., The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America, MIT Press, March 2020

Sabrina Ellebrecht, Mediated Bordering: EUROSUR, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border, De Gruyter, March 2020

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

New Books: December 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in December. There are also a number of additional references to books published in November and a new legal text.

December 2018:

Andrew Nelson, Alexander Rödlach & Roos Willems, eds., The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

Johannes Paulmann, ed., Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2018

Anwesha Ghosh, Identity and Marginality in India: Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Michel Agier, The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants, Polity Books, Dec. 2018

Nexhmedin Morina & Angela Nickerson, eds., Mental Health of Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations: Theory, Research and Clinical Practice, Srpinger, Dec. 2018

Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz & Barbara Frey, eds., Mexico's Human Rights Crisis, University of Pennsylvania Press, Dec. 2018

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2018

Gerasimos Tsourapas, The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2018

Zeynep Şahin Mencütek, Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Derese G. Kassa, Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

Marco Catarci, Miguel Prata Gomes & Sávio Siqueira, eds., Refugees, Interculturalism and Education, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Stephen M. Croucher, Joao R. Caetano & Elsa A. Campbell, eds., The Routledge Companion to Migration, Communication, and Politics, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Hille Haker & Molly Greening, eds., Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

November 2018:

Laura Zanfrini, The Challenge of Migration in a Janus-Faced Europe, Palgrave Pivot, Nov. 2018

Idil Atak & James C. Simeon, eds., The Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences, McGill-Queen's University Press, Nov. 2018

Sebastián Villa, Gloria Urrea, Jaime Andrés Castañeda & Erik R. Larsen, eds., Decision-making in Humanitarian Operations: Strategy, Behavior and Dynamics, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Dilek Karal, Ethico-political Governmentality of Immigration and Asylum: The Case of Ethiopia, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Martin Bulmer & John Solomos, eds., Migration and Race in Europe, Routledge, Nov. 2018

Andrea Paras, Moral Obligations and Sovereignty in International Relations: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism, Routledge, Nov. 2018

Antonis Vradis, Evie Papada, Joe Painter & Anna Papoutsi, New Borders: Migration, Hotspots and the European Superstate, Pluto Press, Nov. 2018

Yannis Hamilakis, ed., The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration, Equinox Publishing, Nov. 2018

Mark Duffield, Post-Humanitarianism Governing Precarity in the Digital World, Polity Books, Nov. 2018

Brittany Lehman, Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Ruth Amir, Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention, Lexington Books, Nov. 2018

Legal Text:

Isabel M. Borges, Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law: From Legal Protection Gaps to Protection Solutions, Routledge, Dec. 2018

New Books: May 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in May. There are also additional references to books published in March and April, new legal texts, and an open access book!

May 2018:

Asfa-Wossen Asserate, African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe, Haus Publishing, May 2018

Kathy Davis,‎ Halleh Ghorashi & Peer Smets, eds., Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies, Emerald Publishing, May 2018

Carleen Maitland, ed., Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons, MIT Press, May 2018

Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly & Mary Jane Curry, eds., Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts, Multilingual Matters, May 2018

Gerhard Besier & Katarzyna Stoklosa, eds., How to Deal with Refugees? Europe as a Continent of Dreams, LIT Verlag, May 2018

Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, Picador, May 2018

April 2018:

Mary Ngo, Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route, Routledge, April 2018

Teresa Thornhill, Hara Hotel: A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece, Verso Books, April 2018

March 2018:

Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, Emanuele Sommario, Federico Casolari & Giulio Bartolini, eds., Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters, Routledge, March 2018

Legal texts:

Katia Bianchini, Protecting Stateless Persons: The Implementation of the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons across EU States, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
- See also this supplementary abstract.

Hilary Evans Cameron, Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge University Press, May 2018

Open access:

Sieglinde Rosenberger, Verena Stern & Nina Merhaut, eds., Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation, Springer, April 2018

New Books: April 2018

See below for new listings for books due out in April, as well as additional references to new legal texts and books published in March.

Please note the pages for Book Series, Legal Texts and Open Access that are available via the tabs under the blog title. I have transferred over old references that were originally posted on my Pinterest page and my plan is to keep these updated with new references.

April 2018:

Jacqueline Bhabha, Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?, Polity Books, April 2018

Anna K. Boucher & Justin Gest, Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change, Cambridge University Press, April 2018

Carleen Maitland, ed., Digital Lifeline?ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons, MIT Press, April 2018

Avidan Kent & Simon Behrman, Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices, Routledge, April 2018

Ben Ryan, ed., Fortress Britain?: Ethical Approaches to Immigration Policy for a Post-Brexit Britain, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, April 2018

David Townes, ed., Health in Humanitarian Emergencies: Principles and Practice for Public Health and Healthcare Practitioners, Cambridge University Press, April 2018

David C. Brotherton & Philip Kretsedemas, Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation, and Border Control, Columbia University Press, April 2018

Ludger Pries, Refugees, Civil Society and the State: European Experiences and Global Challenges, Edward Elgar, April 2018

Rebecca Erbelding, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, Penguin Random House, April 2018

March 2018:

Yasmin Ibrahim & Anita Howarth, Calais and Its Border Politics: From Control to Demolition, Routledge, March 2018

Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor, Ethical Dilemmas of Migration: Moral Challenges for Policymakers, Springer, March 2018

Marion Boulby and Kenneth Christie, eds., Migration, Refugees and Human Security in the Mediterranean and MENA, Springer, March 2018

Legal Texts:

Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, Frances Allen, Julia Gasparro & Jo Swaney, Immigration Law Handbook, 10th ed., Oxford University Press, April 2018

Irini Papanicolopulu, International Law and the Protection of People at Sea, Oxford University Press, April 2018

Lisa Heschl, Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders: Establishing Extraterritorial Legal Responsibilities, Intersentia, April 2018

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Tanja Aalberts, "Search and Rescue as a Geopolitics of International Law," Chapter 8 in The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, April 2018