New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2025 along with additional August 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal, reference and open access texts. 

September 2025:

Jennifer Ferng, Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru, Routledge, Sept. 2025

Michael M. Gunter & Ali Askerov, Forgotten Exile: The Deportations of Azerbaijanis by the Armenians in the Caucasus during the Twentieth Century, Brill, Sept. 2025

Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe, Fernwood Publishing, Sept. 2025 

Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch & Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2025

Cléa Fortuné, Tensions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: From Border Security to Local Insecurity, Routledge, Sept. 2025

August 2025:

Małgorzata Dziekońska & Kamil Luczaj, eds., Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024), Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli & Thalita Franciely de Melo Silva, eds., Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legal and Policy Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Sami Alanne, Music, Music Therapy and Refugees: Aspects of Trauma, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

New Books: December 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

November 2023:

Bernhard Streitwieser, Katharine Summers & Jessica Crist, eds., Accessing Quality Education: Local and Global Perspectives from Refugees, Lexington Books, Nov. 2023

Rajith W. D. Lakshman & S. Irudaya Rajan, eds., Forced Migration and Urban Transformation in South Asia: Displacement, Resettlement, and Poverty, Springer, Nov. 2023

Merit Hietanen, The Humanitarian Parent: Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector, Routledge, Nov. 2023

William Arrocha & Elena Xeni, eds., Migrations and Diasporas: Struggling Between Inclusion and Exclusion, Emerald, Nov. 2023

Ebenezer Durojaye, Robert Doya Nanima, Abiola Idowu-Ojo & Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, eds., Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa: Our Lives Matter, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2023

Muhammad H. Zaman, We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Nov. 2023

Open access:

Maria-Theres Schuler, Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp, Brill, Nov. 2023

Vinh Nguyen, Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2023 

Sweta Shah, Lucy Bassett, eds., Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: Innovations and Lessons from the Global South, Routledge, Nov. 2023

New Books: July 2021

New titles published in June & July 2021 are listed below, along with new legal and open access texts.

July 2021:

Robert F Barsky, Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us about People Fleeing from Persecution, Hart Publishing, July 2021 

Ulrike Krause, Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Ronit Lentin & Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex, Rowman & Littlefield, July 2021

Diego Fernandez Otegui & Daryl Yoder-Bontrager, eds., The Humanitarian Machine: Reflections from Practice, Routledge, July 2021

Lim Il & Adam Zulawnik, Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho, Routledge, July 2021

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti & Jayne Caudwell, eds., Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems, Routledge, July 2021

Thomas Ricento, Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social and Cultural Capital, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2021

Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner & Bernhard Streitwieser, eds., Refugees in Higher Education: Questioning the Notion of Integration, Springer, July 2021

Mausumi Kar, Jayita Mukhopadhyay & Manisha Deb Sarkar, eds., South Asia and Climate Change: Unravelling the Conundrum, Routledge, July 2021

- Note: Part II focuses on "Climate Change Induced Human Migration: Concerns for Environmental Refugees."

Tobin Hansen & María Engracia Robles Robles, eds., Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, July 2021

June 2021:

Juliano Fiori, Fernando Espada, Andrea Rigo, Bertrand Taithe & Rafia Zakaria, Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, Hurst, June 2021

Magdalena Smieszek, The Evolving Psyche of Law in Europe: The Psychology of Human Rights and Asylum Frameworks, Springer, June 2021 

Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso, eds., Handbook of Citizenship and Migration, Edward Elgar, June 2021 

Natalie Khazaal & Núria Almiron, Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering, Brill, June 2021 

Roger Bromley, Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Springer, June 2021 

Aristotle Tziampiris & Foteini Asderaki, eds., The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed: Emerging Issues and New Actors, Springer, June 2021

- Note: Includes four chapters on refugee and migration issues.

Becky Taylor, Karen Akoka, Marcel Berlinghoff & Shira Havkin, eds., When Boat People were Resettled, 1975–1983: A Comparative History of European and Israeli Responses to the South-East Asian Refugee Crisis, Springer, June 2021

- Note: The chapter on Vietnamese refugees in Britain is open access.

Legal texts:

Janna Wessels, The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Open access:

Jasmin Lilian Diab, ed., Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights, E-International Relations, 2021

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021, transcript Verlag, June 2021

- The theme of this edition is "Beyond Borders."

Marcia C. Inhorn & Lucia Volk, eds., Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, Berghahn Books, June 2021

New Books: June 2020 - Pt. 1

Part 2 lists new legal texts and Open Access titles.

June 2020:

Robert F. Barsky, Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees' Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country, Routledge, June 2020

Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants, Princeton Univ. Press, June 2020

Silvia Pasquetti & Romola Sanyal, eds., Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, Manchester Univ. Press, June 2020

Hülya Kaya, The EU-Turkey Statement on Refugees: Assessing Its Impact on Fundamental Rights, Edward Elgar, June 2020

Jana K. Lipman, In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates, Univ. of California Press, June 2020

Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade & Page R. Laws, eds., Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape, Lexington Books, June 2020

Sonia Shah, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2020

Sourav Kumar Das & Nidhi Chowdhary, Refugee Crises and Third-World Economies: Policies and Perspectives, Emerald Publishing, June 2020

Colin Yeo, Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System, Bite Back Publishing, June 2020
- See also related book review.

May 2020:

Mary Crock, Kate Bones, Daniel Ghezelbash, Jemma Hollonds & Mary Anne Kenny, Children and Young People in Asylum and Refugee Processes: Towards Best Practice, Federation Press, May 2020 

Nasreen Chowdhory & Biswajit Mohanty, eds., Citizenship, Nationalism and Refugeehood of Rohingyas in Southern Asia, Springer, May 2020 

Derya Güngör & Dagmar Strohmeier, eds., Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience: Cultural and Acculturation Perspectives, Springer, May 2020

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health: The Next Wave of Migration, Springer, May 2020

Jia Lynn Yang, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965, W.W. Norton, May 2020

Khalid Arar, School Leadership for Refugees’ Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, May 2020

New Books: September 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in September. There are also additional references to books published in July and August.

September 2018:

Uditi Sen, Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2018

Seyla Benhabib, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, Princeton University Press, Sept. 2018

ChorSwang Ngin, Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia, Rowman & Littlefield, Sept. 2018

Mary Crock & Lenni B. Benson, eds., Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2018

Enakshi Sengupta & Patrick Blessinger, eds., Refugee Education: Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society, Emerald Insight, Sept. 2018

Giovanna Dell’Orto & Irmgard Wetzstein, eds., Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in Europe, Routledge, Sept. 2018

Tiziana Caponio, Peter Scholten & Ricard Zapata-Barrero, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities, Routledge, Sept. 2018

Melvin Delgado, Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Oxford University Press, Sept. 2018

Peter H. Koehn, Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries, Routledge, Sept. 2018

August 2018:

Adèle Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, eds., Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2018

Jacqueline Bhabha, Jyothi Kanics & Daniel Senovilla Hernández, eds., Research Handbook on Child Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aug. 2018

Ali Asgary, ed., Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees, Springer, Aug. 2018

July 2018:

Andreas E. Feldmann, Xóchitl Bada, Stephanie Schütze, eds., New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2018