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: November 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

October 2025:

Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud & Deema Refai, Arab Refugee Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities in Jordan and Lebanon, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025 

Muhammed Serhat Semercioğlu & Ahmet Oğuz Akçay, eds., Foundational Education of Primary-Level Refugee Students: Advancing Fundamental Subject Knowledge, Springer, Oct. 2025

Bronte Alexander, Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil's Northern Frontier, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja & Johanna Gördemann, eds., Handbook of Migration Ethics, Springer, Oct. 2025

Paula Banerjee, Nasreen Chowdhory & Priya Singh, eds., The Postcolonial Compendium: Keywords in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2025 

Mohammad Zaman, Robert Anderson & Kawser Ahmed, eds., Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World, Springer, Oct. 2025

Nasir Uddin, ed., Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People: The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries, Springer, Oct. 2025

Legal texts:

Jenny Poon, Counteracting Containment Policies in the EU: Safeguarding the Non-Refoulement Principle, Springer, Oct. 2025

Niovi Vavoula, Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Valsamis Mitsilegas, eds., Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU, Routledge, Sept. 2025

- A preprint version of the introduction is available via SSRN.

Open access:

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024, transcript Verlag, 2025 

- The theme of this edition is "Gender*Queer." Contributed chapters are in either German or English.

Ryuji Hattori & Tual Sawn Khai, Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup: Exploring Four Channels Amid the Weaponization of Assistance, Springer, Sept. 2025

Janine Dahinden & Andreas Pott, eds., Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives, Springer, Nov. 2025

New Books: July 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal text:

Richard A. Boswell, Essentials of Immigration Law, 6th ed., American Immigration Lawyers' Assoc., May 2024

Open access:

Doğuş Şimşek, 'Am I Less British?': Racism, Belonging, and the Children of Refugees and Immigrants in North London, UCL Press, Feb. 2024

Jesse Spohnholz & Mirjam van Veen, Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620: A Reformation of Refugees, Univ. of Rochester Press, Feb. 2024

David de Boer, The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2023

Rebecca Bryant, Amal Abdulla, Maissam Nimer & Ayşen Üstübici, Lives in Limbo: Syrian Youth in Turkey, Berghahn Books, July 2024

Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Anastasia Christou, Silke Meyer, Marie Johanna Karner & Anton Jakob Escher, eds., Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community, Routledge, Nov. 2023

- Note: Four chapters are open access.

Lara Momesso & Polina Ivanova, eds., Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2024 

Carolina Pinto Baleisan, ed., Saberes en movimiento: Contribuciones desde la academia y la sociedad civil a los estudios sobre migraciones en Chile, Ariadna Ediciones, Feb. 2024

New Books: June 2022

June 2022:

Aileen Crowe, Acts of Cruelty: Australia’s Immigration Laws and Experiences of People Seeking Protection after Arriving by Plane, Palaver, June 2022

Adam Saltsman, Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier, Syracuse Univ. Press, June 2022

Susan Hartman, City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town, Beacon Press, June 2022

Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria Georgiou, The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, NYU Press, June 2022

Jessica Stroja, Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes, Routledge, June 2022

- Focuses on Australia.

Tamar Mayer & Trinh Tran, eds., Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power, Routledge, June 2022

Akira Kitade, Emerging Heroes: WWII-Era Diplomats, Jewish Refugees, and Escape to Japan, Academic Studies Press, June 2022

Samuel Jarvis, The Limits of Common Humanity: Motivating the Responsibility to Protect in a Changing Global Order, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2022

May 2022:

Andrew Leon Hanna, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022

- Focuses on  Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan.

Nicole Braida, Migrating Through the Web: Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile, transcript Verlag, May 2022

Christoph Kalter, Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022 

Melissa Phillips & Louise Olliff, eds., Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2022

Open access:

Agustín Escobar Latapí & Claudia Masferrer, eds., Migration Between Mexico and the United States: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, May 2022

Pragna Rugunanan & Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, eds., Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, May 2022