New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

December 2025:

Marco Perolini, Migration and Mobile Rights: Activism, Racial Justice, and Human Rights from Below, Bristol University Press, Dec. 2025

Peter Mancina, On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State, NYU Press, Dec. 2025 

Priyanca Mathur & Rubina Pradhan, eds., Post-Pandemic World Order: Issues and Challenges, Routledge, Dec. 2025

- Focuses on Asia. See Part II: State of International Migrants and Refugees. 

Reference books:

Sofia Dedotsi, Elena Cabiati & Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Migration: Theory, Practice, Education and Research, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Laura Cleton, Nahikari Irastorza, Agnieszka Weinar & Lyubov Zhyznomirska, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, 2nd ed., Routledge, Jan. 2026

Legal texts:

Alex Powell, Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration, Bristol University Press, Jan. 2026

Open access:

Chrisoula Lionis, Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement: Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Katherine Kunz, Contested Home: Asylum-seeking in Switzerland and the Politics of Belonging, Place, and Religion, transcript Verlag, June 2025 

Marcin Stonawski, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Katarzyna Górska, Agnieszka Olter-Castillo, Silvana Gomez & Jan Brzozowski, Coping and Adaptation in Times of Exodus: Venezuelan Migration Decisions and Strategies, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Ana Carden-Coyne, Chrisoula Lionis, Angeliki Roussou & Charles Green, Understanding Displacement Aesthetics: History, Art, and Museums, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Anne Ring Petersen, Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement: Contemporary Art and Refugee Experience in Denmark, transcript Verlag, Dec. 2025 

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: January 2021

New titles published in January 2021 and December 2020 are listed below, as well as a new open access text.

January 2021: 

Fiorenza Picozza, The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield, Jan. 2021

David Fernández-Rojo, EU Migration Agencies: The Operation and Cooperation of FRONTEX, EASO and EUROPOL, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2021

Elżbieta M. Goździak, Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2021

Swati Akshay Sachdeva & Yumnam Surjyajeevan, Identity in Question: The Study of Tibetan Refugees in the Indian Himalayas, Vernon Press, Jan. 2021

Jamie D. Aten & Jenny Hwang, eds., Refugee Mental Health, American Psychological Association, Jan. 2021

December 2020:

Simeon S. Magliveras, ed., Agency and Immigration Policy, Transnational Press London, Dec. 2020

Sabella O. Abidde, ed., The Challenges of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, Springer, Dec. 2020

Jarmila Ptáčková, Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects, Univ. of Washington Press, Dec. 2020

Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton & Ayesha Siddiqi , eds., The Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020

Samina Iqbal, A Practical Guide to Claims for Unlawful Detention and False Imprisonment in Immigration and Asylum Cases, Law Brief Publishing, Dec. 2020

- Focuses on the UK.

Open access:

Laura Affolter, Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020