New Books: February 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books and legal texts due out in February 2026, while Part 2 lists additional January 2026 titles, as well as new open access texts.

February 2026:

Aina Backman, Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden: Being an Outsider Inside the Fence, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech, eds., The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Matthew Hilton, Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Mahmood Monshipouri, Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, and Human Rights in the Middle East, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Dolapo Fakuade & Erman Akilli, Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Paolo Boccagni & Thomas Lacroix, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place, Bristol Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Sophia Pandya, The Hizmet Movement in Exile: Refugees of Turkey's Purge, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2026

Sohail Jannesari, The Migrant Art of Coping, Pluto Books, Feb. 2026

Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen & Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction, Wiley Blackwell, Feb. 2026

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Carolina Valdivia, Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability,
Univ. of California Press, Feb. 2026

Legal texts:

Kirsten McConnachie & Sarah Singer, eds., Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection: International Jurisprudence on the Rights of Refugees, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo, & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 4th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Feb. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

New Books: October 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2024 along with new legal and open access texts, while Part 2 lists additional September 2024 titles. 

October 2024:

Christina Clark-Kazak, Aging In and Out of Place: Lived Experiences of Forced Migration Across the Life Course, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2024

Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli & Bukola Salami, eds., De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice, De Gruyter, Oct. 2024

Min Wha Han, Eun-Jeong Han & JongHwa Lee, eds., Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora Within Homeland, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Clarena Larrotta & Merih Ugurel-Kamisli, eds., English Literacy Educators Working with Refugee Families: An Intercultural Approach to Adult Education, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Brianna Nofil, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

Carol Cleaveland & Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum, NYU Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on the US.

Laura Madokoro, Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on Canada.

Legal texts:

Marie Aronsson-Storrier & Susan C. Breau, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Marjoleine Zieck, Resettlement as Protection: Integrating Resettlement of Refugees in International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Open access:

Charlotte Röhner, Jessica Schwittek & Antoanneta Potsi, eds., Transmigration und Place-making junger Geflüchteter = Transmigration and place-making of young refugees, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2024

- Chapters are in English or German.

Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya.

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: December 2023 - Pt. 1

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

December 2023:

Tom Kemp, Activism and the Detention of Migrants: The Law and Politics of Immigration Detention, Routledge, Dec. 2023

Ayesha Jehangir, Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace, Routledge, Dec. 2023

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement, Duke Univ. Press, Dec. 2023

Ulrike Bialas, Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System, Univ. of Chicago Press, Dec. 2023

Luigi Achilli and David Kyle, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Dec. 2023

Hein de Haas, How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics, Basic Books, Dec. 2023

Heidi Mogstad, Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2023

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marta Pachocka & Justyna Szałańska, eds., The Integration of Refugees in the Education and Labour Markets: Between Inclusion and Exclusion Practices, Routledge, Dec. 2023

Sergio F Juárez, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Michael Lechuga & Arthur Soto-Vásquez, eds., Migrant World Making, Michigan State Univ. Press, Dec. 2023

Azar Masoumi, Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here: The Paradox of Protection in Canada, UBC Press, Dec. 2023

Fonkem Achankeng, ed., Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective, Lexington Books, Dec. 2023

Susanna Price & Jay Drydyk, eds., Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways, Routledge, Dec. 2023

Ajaya K. Sahoo, ed., Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations, Routledge, Dec. 2023

New Books: January 2023

January 2023:

Toyin Falola & Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, African Refugees, Indiana Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Ashleigh Haw, Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media: Mediated (In)humanity, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2023

Michael J. Carpenter, Melissa Kelly & Oliver Schmidtke, eds., Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective, Univ. of Ottawa Press, Jan. 2023 

Nereida Ripero-Muñiz, Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2023

John Vincent, Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and Other New Arrivals, Routledge, Jan. 2023

Marcia C. Schenck and Kate Reed, eds., The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Rodziana Mohamed Razali, Safeguarding Against Statelessness at Birth: International Law and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN Member States, Springer, Jan. 2023

December 2022:

Mike Classon Frangos & Sheila Ghose, eds., Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2022 

Anna Triandafyllidou, ed., Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, Routledge, 2nd ed., Dec. 2022

Ross Bond, Understanding International Migration: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2022 

Open access:

Susanne Boersma, The Aftermaths of Participation: Outcomes and Consequences of Participatory Work with Forced Migrants in Museums, transcript Verlag, Dec. 2022

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Justyna Szałańska & Monika Szulecka, From Reception to Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland, Routledge, Dec. 2022

Martin Scott, Kate Wright & Mel Bunce, Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone, Routledge, Dec. 2022

Christian Albrekt Larsen, ed., Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2022

New Books: September 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in September 2021, while part 2 lists new books published in August 2021 as well as new legal and open access texts

September 2021:

Wenona Giles & Lorrie Miller, eds., Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps, Bloomsbury Publishing, Sept. 2021

Arockiam Kulandai, Camp Life of Sri Lankan Refugees in India, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Annika Lems, Kathrin Oester & Sabine Strasser, eds., Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in and en Route to Europe, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Silas W. Allard, Kristin E. Heyer & Raj Nadella, eds., Christianity and the Law of Migration, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Waed Athamneh & Muhammad Masud, Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, Sept. 2021

Basem Mahmud, Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration: Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Siobhan Brownlie & Rédouane Abouddahab, eds., Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Birgit Bräuchler, ed., Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan & Kim Rygiel, The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Tamsin Bradley & Janet Gruber, Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: Mainstreaming in Development Programmes, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Tendayi Bloom & Lindsey N. Kingston, eds., Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire & Marie Bridonneau, eds., Urban Resettlements in the Global South: Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Gemma Houldey, The Vulnerable Humanitarian: Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector, Routledge, Sept. 2021

ActionAid Association, Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa: Travelling for Safety, Routledge, Sept. 2021

New Books: May 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in May 2021, while part 2 lists new books published in April 2021 as well as new legal and open access texts.

May 2021:

Alison Peck, The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction, Univ. of California Press, May 2021 

Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan, Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis, McFarland, May 2021 

Rebecca Hamlin, Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move, Stanford Univ. Press, May 2021

Christine Monaghan, Educating for Durable Solutions: Histories of Schooling in Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps, Bloomsbury, May 2021

Martha Montero-Sieburth, Rosa Mas Giralt, Noemi Garcia-Arjona & Joaquín Eguren, eds., Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships, Routledge, May 2021

Jeannette Money & Sarah P. Lockhart, eds., Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century, Routledge, May 2021

Don Vu, Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Supporting Our Immigrant and Refugee Children Through the Power of Reading, Scholastic, May 2021

Natasha Carver, Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom, Rutgers University Press, May 2021

Giorgio Grappi, ed., Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension, Routledge, May 2021

Laure Humbert, Reinventing French Aid: The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945–1952, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2021 

Gil Loescher, Refugees: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021

Sibylla Brodzinsky & Max Schoening, eds., Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence, Haymarket Books, May 2021 

Alexander Betts, The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021

New Books: July 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in July. There are also a few references to books published in May and legal texts.

July 2019:

Khalid Arar, Jeffrey S. Brooks & Ira Bogotch, eds., Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World, Emerald Publishing, July 2019

Heather Smith-Cannoy, ed., Emerging Threats to Human Rights: Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship, Temple Univ. Press, July 2019

Burcu Dogramaci & Birgit Mersmann, eds., Handbook of Art and Global Migration: Theories, Practices, and Challenges, De Gruyter, July 2019

Terry Gibson, Making Aid Agencies Work: Reconnecting INGOs with the People They Serve, Emerald Publishing, July 2019

Neil Carrier & Tabea Scharrer, eds., Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa, Berghahn Books, July 2019

Olga Maya Demetriou, Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject: Reconsidering Minor Losses, SUNY Press, July 2019 

Elizabeth G. Ferris & Katharine M. Donato, Refugees, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts, Routledge, July 2019

Wendy Hunter, Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2019


May 2019:

Jody L. McBrien, ed., Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries, Brill, May 2019

Legal texts:

Jane McAdam & Fiona Chong, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: A Frank, Up-to-date Guide by Experts, New South Books, July 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: June 2018

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

June 2018:

Michael M. Cernea & Julie K. Maldonado, eds., Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, Solutions, Routledge, June 2018

Paul Jackson & Danielle Beswick, Conflict, Security and Development: An Introduction, 3rd ed., Routledge, June 2018

Ayesha Ahmad & James Smith, eds., Humanitarian Action and Ethics, Zed Books, June 2018

Bram J. Jansen, Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City, Zed Books, June 2018

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, ed., Migrants, Refugees, and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, Routledge, June 2018

Brenden W. Rensink, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, Texas A&M University Press, June 2018

Ala Sirriyeh, The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy, Policy Press, June 2018

Bimal Ghosh, Refugee and Mixed Migration Flows: Managing a Looming Humanitarian and Economic Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2018

Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh & Annamari Vitikainen, eds., Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility, Routledge, June 2018

Eileen Truax, We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond, Verso Books, June 2018

May 2018:

Timofey Agarin and Nevena Nancheva, eds., A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe, ibidem Press, May 2018

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

Pauline Gardiner Barber & Winnie Lem, eds., Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018

Loshini Naidoo, Jane Wilkinson, Misty Adoniou & Kiprono Langat, Refugee Background Students Transitioning into Higher Education: Navigating Complex Spaces, Springer, May 2018

Legal Texts:

Rashida Manjoo & Jackie Jones, eds., The Legal Protection of Women From Violence: Normative Gaps in International Law, Routledge, April 2018

David James Cantor, Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict: International Law and Its Application in Colombia, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018

Sonja C. Grover, Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right: Selected Case Law on State Resistance, Springer, May 2018

Irwin P. Stotzky, Send Them Back, Carolina Academic Press, June 2018
- Focuses on litigation to support Haitian refugees in the U.S.

Simon Behrman, Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance, Routledge, June 2018

Open Access:

Julia Dahlvik, Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria, Springer, May 2018