New Books: December 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

November 2025:

Martin Gottwald, Beyond Principles? A Critical Look at UNHCR’s Organisational Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2025

*Valerie Francisco-Menchavez & Leah Williams Veazey, eds., Communities of Care in Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2025

*Alpaslan Özerdem, Handbook on Humanitarian Crises, Edward Elgar, Nov. 2025

Legal texts:

Natale Serón Arizmendi, Unaccompanied Migrant Children and International Law: The Role of Strategic Litigation in Advancing Human Rights, Routledge, Dec. 2025

Open access:

Ataus Samad, Aparna Hebbani & Nichole Georgeou, eds., Beyond the Cities: The Dynamics of Migrant Settlement in Regional Australia, Springer, Nov. 2025

Lauren Sakae Nishimura, Climate Change, Human Rights, and Adaptive Mobility, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Ana Beduschi, Massimo Marelli & Aaron Martin, eds., Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Heidi Østbø Haugen & Bingyu Wang, eds., Handbook on Migration to China, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025

*Doina Anca Cretu & Michal Frankl, eds., Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: Local, National and International Perspectives, Manchester Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Piotr Długosz & Dominika Izdebska-Długosz, eds., Women War Refugees from Ukraine: Two Years Since the Invasion, Peter Lang, Nov. 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: November 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

October 2023:

Alice Neikirk, The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance, Univ. of Alberta Press, Oct. 2023 

Morgan Etzel, The German Migration Integration Regime: Syrian Refugees, Bureaucracy, and Inclusion, Bristol University Press, Oct. 2023

Ana Vila-Freyer & Ibrahim Sirkeci, eds., Global Atlas of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Transnational Press London, Oct. 2023

Volkan Deli, Iraqi Refugees in the United States: Self-Sufficiency and Responsibilization in the Vicious Cycle of Integration, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2023

Open access:

Dirk-Jan Koch, Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences, Routledge, Sept. 2023

Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman & Eva Eliasson, eds., Migration, Education and Employment: Pathways to Successful Integration, Springer, Oct. 2023

Ricard Zapata-Barrero & Ibrahim Awad, eds., Migrations in the Mediterranean: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, Oct. 2023

Giulia Scalettaris, The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis: The Making of the International Refugee Regime, Berghahn Books, Nov. 2023 

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: November 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

October 2021:

Yeshwant Naik, Domestic Violence Against Male Same-Sex Partners in the EU with Special Reference to Refugee and Migrant Gay Men in Germany, Springer, Oct. 2021

Silvana Lakeman, Environmental and Disaster Displacement Policy: Organisational Cooperation between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2021

Hans-Joachim Preuß, Christoph Beier & Dirk Messner, eds., Forced Displacement and Migration: Approaches and Programmes of International Cooperation, Springer, Oct. 2021

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

Lauren Carruth, Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region, Cornell Univ. Press, Oct. 2021

Mustapha El Alaoui-Faris, Antonio Federico & Wolfgang Grisold, eds., Neurology in Migrants and Refugees, Springer, Oct. 2021

Nicolas Fromm, Annette Jünemann & Hamza Safouane, eds., Power in Vulnerability: A Multi-Dimensional Review of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities, Springer, Oct. 2021

Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall, Beacon Press, Oct. 2021

New Books: February 2021

New titles published in January & February 2021 are listed below, along with a new legal text.

February 2021:

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021 

Andrew Geddes, Governing Migration Beyond the State: Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia in a Global Context, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Ma Vang, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Julius Fein, Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021 

Ralf Roßkopf & Katharina Heilmann, eds., International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine & Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, eds., Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management, Routledge, Feb. 2021

Elisabeth Yarbakhsh, Iranian Hospitality, Afghan Marginality: Spaces of Refuge and Belonging in the City of Shiraz, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021

Ken R. Crane, Iraqi Refugees in the United States: The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror, NYU Press, Feb. 2021

Lynne Jones, The Migrant Diaries, Fordham Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Geoffrey Cameron, Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Marcus Herz & Philip Lalander, Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child, Routledge, Feb. 2021

January 2021:

Larry Hollingworth, Aid Memoir, Fordham Univ. Press, Jan. 2021 

- Account of the author's time "as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s."

Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2021

Joe Cropp, The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars, Routledge, Jan. 2021

Legal texts:

Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2021

- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."

New Books: August 2020

August 2020:

Rachel Ida Buff & Alejandra Oliva (transl.), A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de Asilo: Palabras para Personas en Movimiento, Fordham Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Francesca Ippolito, Gianluca Borzoni &  Federico Casolari, eds., Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean: Prospects for Migration Issues, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aug. 2020

Emine Fidan Elcioglu, ed., Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border, UC Press, Aug. 2020

Vicki Squire, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, Univ. of California Press, Aug. 2020

Honey Oberoi Vahali, Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees, 2nd ed., Routledge, Aug. 2020

Yoshikazu Shiobara, et al., eds., Migration Policies in Asia, 5 vols., SAGE Publishing, Aug. 2020

Leah Hamilton, Luisa Veronis & Margaret Walton-Roberts, eds., A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada,  McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Anindita Ghoshal, Refugees, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India, Routledge, Routledge, Aug. 2020

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Sigrun Marie Moss & Özden Melis Uluğ, eds., Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities, Springer, Aug. 2020

Paolo Boccagni, Luis Eduardo PéRez Murcia & Milena Belloni, Thinking Home on the Move: A Conversation Across Disciplines, Emerald Publishing, Aug. 2020

July 2020: 

Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, ed., Causes and Consequences of Migrant Criminalization, Springer, July 2020

Masako Yonekawa & Akiko Sugiki, eds., Repatriation, Insecurity, and Peace: A Case Study of Rwandan Refugees, Springer, July 2020

Ana Vila-Freyer & Mehmet Gökay Özerim, eds., Young Migrants: Vulnerabilities, Boundaries, Protection and Integration, Transnational Press, July 2020

Legal texts:

Stian Øby Johansen, The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2020
- See esp. Chapter 5, "Case study: UNHCR-administered refugee camps."

Romit Bhandari, Human Rights and the Revision of Refugee Law, Routledge, Aug. 2020

James C. Simeon, ed., Terrorism and Asylum, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020

Giovanni Sciaccaluga, International Law and the Protection of 'Climate Refugees', Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020

Open access:

Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis & Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2020

Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk & Jane O. Newman, eds., Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing, transcript De Gruyter , Aug. 2020

New Books: August 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in August. There are also a few references to books published in June and July as well as a legal text.

August 2019:

Khaled Hassine, Handling Climate Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2019

Hamza Safouane, Stories of Border Crossers: A Critical Inquiry into Forced Migrants’ Journey Narratives to the European Union, Springer, Aug. 2019

Nina Maadad, Syrian Refugee Children in Australia and Sweden: Education and Survival among the Displaced, Dispossessed and Disrupted, Routledge, August 2019

Peter, Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent, Basic Books, August 2019

July 2019:

Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel & Sam Tyano, eds., An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health, Springer, July 2019

Robin Andersen & Adrian Bergmann, Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence, Routledge, July 2019

Sinja Hantscher, The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019

June 2019:

Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara & Tineke Strik, eds., Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered, Edward Elgar, June 2019
- Note: Chapter 1 is freely available.

Legal text:

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, August 2019