New Books: September 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2026, while Part 2 lists additional August 2026 titles, as well as new open access texts.

September 2026:

Stephen George Damianos, Asylum is Unavailable: Absence and Absurdity at the Digital Border, Univ. of California Press, Sept. 2026

- Focuses on Greece.

Maria Cullen, Cold War Humanitarians: NGOs as National Political Actors in the Global South, Manchester University Press, Sept. 2026

Catherine Ashton & Filippo Grandi, The Courage to Welcome: Between Principles and Pragmatism in International Affairs, Haus Publishing, Sept. 2026

Giorgia Doná, Aura Lounasmaa & Corinne Squire, De-bordering Higher Education: Refugees, Universities and Social Justice, Bristol Univ. Press, Sept. 2026

Alistair D. B. Cook, Lina Gong & Ian Holliday, eds., Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia, Routledge, Sept. 2026

Erin Routon, Legal Care: Advocacy and Friction in Family Detention, Univ. of Arizona Press, Sept. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lives in Limbo: Refugee Place-Making and Survival in Malaysia, Stanford Univ. Press, Sept. 2026

Katerina Sergatskova, Occupation and Migration in Eastern Europe: How Citizens Are Forced into Exile and Shaped by New Realities—Reports, Essays, Articles, 2014-25, ibidem Press, Sept. 2026

Mahbubur Rahman, Abdur Rob Khan & Md. Rizwanul Islam, eds., Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?, Routledge, Sept. 2026

Skip Mark, Ashlea Rundlett, Mikhail Filippov & David L. Cingranelli, Science and the Study of Human Rights, SUNY Press, Sept. 2026

New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Ruth Rubio Marín, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Benedita Menezes Queiroz & Fulvia Staiano, eds., Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025

Lena Riemer, The Prohibition of Collective Expulsion: Protecting against Arbitrary Expulsion in Human Rights Treaty Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Elizabeth Mavropoulou, Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

 Júlia Zomignani Barboza, Undesirable but Unreturnable Migrants: The Challenges of Dealing with Criminal Migrants in Need of Protection - A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Belgium and Canada, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Reference book:

Yen Le Espiritu, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, 1st ed., SAGE Publications, Sept. 2025

Open access:

Iva Dodevska, Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy, Springer, Aug. 2025

Susan Bibler Coutin, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, Univ. of California, Press, Aug. 2025

William Mude & Sally Baker, Possibilities of Educational Pathways to Refugee Resettlement: A Personal Journey from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Australia, Lived Places Publishing, Aug. 2025

Julija Sardelić, Refugee Protection Crises and Transit Europe: Immediate Responses, Selective Memory, and the Self-Serving Politics of Diversity, Springer, Aug. 2025

Regina Polak, Aybiçe Tosun & Ansgar Jödicke, eds., Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Brill/Schoningh, Aug. 2025

Anas Ansar, Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia, De Gruyter, Aug. 2025

Harald Bauder & Mary Boatemaa Setrana, eds., Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection, 2 vols., Springer, Aug. 2025

- Vol. 1: Frontiers of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

- Vol. 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

New Books: March 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in March 2025, while Part 2 lists additional February 2025 titles as well as new open access texts.

March 2025:

 

Sebastian Meyer, Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi & Giacomo Solano, eds., The Admission and Integration of Refugees in Europe: Legal and Policy Perspectives, Routledge, March 2025

Adeyemi Abel Ajibesin & Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, eds., AI for Humanitarianism: Fostering Social Change Through Emerging Technologies, Routledge, March 2025

Miriam Potocky Rafaidus, Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children: Contemporary Resonance, Lived Places Publishing, March 2025

Ekaterina Tour, Edwin Creely, Peter Waterhouse & Michael Henderson, eds., Digital Empowerment for Refugee and Migrant Learners: Applying Strengths-Based Practice to Adult Education, Routledge, 

 

Hazar Ege Gürsoy Erdenay, Georgian Internally Displaced People: The Formation of a Social Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2025

Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander & Douglas McGetchin, eds., German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930–1950: Shelter from the Storm?, Routledge, March 2025

Nele Kortendiek, Global Governance on the Ground: Organizing International Migration and Asylum at the Border, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2025

 

Katrin Radtke & Kristina Roepstorff, eds., An Introduction to Humanitarian Action, Routledge, March 2025

Azlin Zaiti Zainal, Meng Huat Chau & Jessica Rummy, Language and Literacy Education of Asylum The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration Seekers and Refugees: Pre-resettlement Experiences of Learners in Malaysia, Routledge, March 2025

Sahar Akhtar, ed., The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration, Routledge, March 2025

Jennifer Huynh, Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon, Univ.  of California Press, March 2025

Andréanne Bissonnette & Élisabeth Vallet, eds., Walled: Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Univ. of Arizona Press, March 2025

New Books: December 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in November & December 2021, while part 2 lists new legal texts and open access titles.

December 2021:

Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa Hartley, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes & Dean Chan, eds., Activating Cultural and Social Change: The Pedagogies of Human Rights, Routledge, Dec. 2021

Nina Maadad & I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, The Education of Arabic Speaking Refugee Children and Young Adults: Education, Employment and Social Inclusion, Routledge, Dec. 2021

Anna De Fina & Gerardo Mazzaferro, eds., Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries, Multilingual Matters, Dec. 2021

Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla & Ibrahim Abubakar, eds., Handbook of Refugee Health: For Healthcare Professionals and Humanitarians Providing Care to Forced Migrants, CRC Press, Dec. 2021

Khalid Arar, Yasar Kondakci, Bernhard Streitwieser & Anna Saiti, Higher Education in the Era of Migration, Displacement and Internationalization, Routledge, Dec. 2021

Inken Bartels, The International Organization for Migration in North Africa: Making International Migration Management, Routledge, Dec. 2021

Vilashini Somiah, Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2021

Marie McAuliffe, ed., Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2021

Mohammad Zaman, Reshmy Nair & Shi Guoqing, eds., Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights, Routledge, Dec 2021

Nasir Uddin, ed., The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing, SAGE, Dec. 2021

Khalid Arar, School Leadership for Refugees’ Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, Dec. 2021 

Neil James Wilson Crawford, The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Dec. 2021

November 2021:

Katherine C. McKenzie, ed., Asylum Medicine: A Clinician's Guide, Springer, Nov. 2021

Catherine Jones & Garren Mulloy, eds., East Asia, Peacekeeping Operations, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Routledge, Nov. 2021

Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner, Anthem Press, Nov. 2021 

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 1

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

April 2021:

Amanda C. Demmer, After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

James Souter, Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Gabriele Proglio, Camilla Hawthorne, Ida Danewid, P. Khalil Saucier, Giuseppe Grimaldi, Angelica Pesarini, Timothy Raeymaekers, Giulia Grechi & Vivian Gerrand, eds., The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Parthiban Muniandy, Ghost Lives of the Pendatang: Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Urban Malaysia, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

- "[A]n ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia."

Emma Carmel, Katharina Lenner & Regine Paul, eds., Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, April 2021

Alistair D. B. Cook & Lina Gong, eds., Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice, Springer, April 2021

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas, eds., Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, Routledge, April 2021 

Elżbieta Goździak, International Migration: A Quick Immersion, Tibidabo Publishing, April 2021

Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer & Paul Weindling, eds., Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2021

Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities, Routledge, April 2021

Romola Adeola, ed., National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: Beyond the Rhetoric, Springer, April 2021

Cristina Astier & Ander Errasti, eds., Refugees' Europe: Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2021

Becky Taylor, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

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

Nicholas R. Micinski, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, April 2021

New Books: August 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in August. There are also additional references to: 1) books published in May, June and July, and 2) a new legal text.

August 2018:

Lucy Bailey & Gül İnanç, Access to Higher Education: Refugees' Stories from Malaysia, Routledge, Aug. 2018

Carl Lindskoog, Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System, Univ. of Florida Press, Aug. 2018

Murdoch Stephens, Doing Our Bit: The Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota, Bridget Williams Books, Aug. 2018

Alice Bloch & Giorgia Dona, eds., Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates, Routledge, Aug. 2018

Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Immigration Control in a Warming World: Realizing the Moral Challenges of Climate Migration, Imprint Academic, Aug. 2018

Karthika Sasikumar & Danijela Dudley, eds., Political and Military Sociology: The European Refugee Crisis, Routledge, Aug. 2018

July 2018:

Fabio Dovigo, ed., Challenges and Opportunities in Education for Refugees in Europe: From Research to Good Practices, Brill/Sense, July 2018

Steven Loyal & Stephen Quilley, State Power and Asylum Seekers in Ireland: An Historically Grounded Examination of Contemporary Trends, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2018

Thomas Wenzel & Boris Drožđek, eds., An Uncertain Safety: Integrative Health Care for the 21st Century Refugees, Springer, July 2018

June 2018:

Andrew Selee, Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together, Public Affairs, June 2018

Fernando Puell de la Villa & David Garcia Hernan, eds., War and Population Displacement: Lessons of History, Sussex Academic Press, June 2018

May 2018:

Elzbieta Kuzelewska, Amy Weatherburn & Dariusz Kloza, Irregular Migration as a Challenge for Democracy, Intersentia, May 2018

Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Refugee Protection in Brazil and Latin America: Selected Essays, Transnational Press London, May 2018

Legal Texts:

Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore, Richard A. Boswell & Annie Daher, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, 5th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Aug. 2018