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: August 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in August 2025 as well as additional July 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

August 2025:

Stephen Mamula & Eva Sutton, Cambodian Journeys: Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2025

Yumi Moon, ed., Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, Humanitarianism from Below: Faith, Welfare, and the Role of Casas de Migrantes in Mexico, NYU Press, Aug. 2025

Ailbhe Kenny, Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Estelle Boyle, Networks of Belonging: Refugee and Migrant Inclusion in Australia, and Digital Communication, Routledge, Aug. 2025 

Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto & Diego Chaves-González, On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Laura C. Forster, The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025 

Virginia De Micco, Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, The Refugee Abyss, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Marie Jelínková, Agnieszka Bielewska & Karin Amit, eds., Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, Aug. 2025

- Note: Two chapters in this volume will be open access as of 11 Aug. 2025.

July 2025:

Eseta Tualaulelei, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley & Alison Bedford, Children’s Picture Books about Refugees and Campbell’s Monomyth, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Robert Koulish & Ernesto Calvo, Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals: How Scoring Algorithms Transformed Anti-Immigrant Sentiments into Policy, Springer, July 2025

Rick Dolphijn & Nicholas Polson, eds., Food, Migration and Belonging: A Glossary for Doing Fieldwork in Contemporary Europe, Springer, July 2025 

Elizabeth Coombes, Emma Maclean & Samuel Gracida, eds., Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Trauma, Transformations and Cultural Connections, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, July 2025

New Books: June 2025

June 2025:

Dominic Davies & Candida Rifkind, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, Wilfrid Laurier University, June 2025

Clara Egger, ed., Hierarchies and Exclusion in Humanitarianism, Manchester Univ. Press, June 2025

Nancy Hiemstra & Deirdre Conlon, Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants in America, Pluto Press, June 2025

Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda, Duke Univ. Press, June 2025

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Paquet & Ethel Tungohan, eds., Knowledge, Power, and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2025

Barbara Gornik, Zorana Medaric & Mateja Sedmak, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2025

Jessica Stroja, ed., Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement, Routledge, June 2025

Izabela Grabowska, Ivanna Kyliushyk & Emil Chról, Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances, Routledge, June 2025

Romain Fathi, Melanie Oppenheimer & Paul-André Rosental, eds., Voluntary Organisations, the Red Cross, and the Features of Humanitarian Reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars, Routledge, June 2025

May 2025:

Johannes Becker, Mathias Bös & Sevil Çakır, eds., Fragility of Global Migration: Exploring a Constitutive Aspect of Migratory Forms, Springer, May 2025

Daniela Gleizer, Emmanuel Kahan, Yael Siman, eds., The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory, Springer, May 2025

Ivan Light, Leo-Paul Dana & Didier Chabaud, eds., Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurs: History, Cases, and Frontiers, Springer, May 2025

Luca Follis, Karolina Follis & Nicola Burns, eds., Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems: Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare, Edward Elgar, May 2025 

Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu & Daniel Ahadi, Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, Routledge, May 2025

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem & Benjamin Michallet, Réfugiés: Ce qu'on ne nous dit pas, Stock, May 2025

Open access:

Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus & Julie Young, eds., Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences, Athabasca University Press, April 2025

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino & Andrea Vaccaro, Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson & Marcus Herz, Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change, Routledge, May 2025

Leila Benhadjoudja, Christina Clark-Kazak & Stéphanie Garneau, eds., Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”: The Making of Crises and Their Effects, Univ. of Ottawa Press, May 2025

Balazs Venkovits, Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada, Sciendo, May 2025

New Books: April 2025

April 2025:

Nadia El-Shaarawi, Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War, Univ. of California Press, April 2025 

Zeynep Kilicoglu, Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures, Routledge, April 2025

Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge & Evan Smith, eds., Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949, Brill, April 2025

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Rachel Humphris, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, Stanford Univ. Press, April 2025

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

* Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko & Anindita Ghoshal, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Daniel Briggs, Sheltering Strangers: Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees, Policy Press, April 2025

March 2025:

Sara Mazzei, Arab-Islamic Education Systems in the Experience of Migrants and Refugees in Europe: An Historical and Cultural Analysis Focused on Morocco, Syria, Italy, Germany and Sweden, Springer, March 2025 

Julie Matthews & Quentin Maire, eds., A Modern Guide to Refugee Education: Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices, Edward Elgar, March 2025 

Matthew Davis, Third Sector Organisations, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Support During Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025 

Jennifer Moore, Women’s Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2025 

Open access:

Rachel Benchekroun, Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-migration in the UK, UCL Press, March 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: December 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

November 2024:

Susan Banki, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists, Cornell Univ. Press, Nov. 2024

Hildegunn Fandrem & James O’Higgins Norman, eds., International Perspectives on Migration, Bullying, and School: Implications for Schools, Refugees, and Migrants, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Philip Brown, Santokh Gill & Jamie P. Halsall, Refugees and Housing: Policy, Practice and Lived Experience, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2024 

Menşure Alkiş Küçükaydin, Hakan Ulum & Ömer Gökhan Ulum, eds., Silencing Refugees’ Voices in Educational Practices: Perspectives on School Textbooks, Nov. 2024

Volha Charnysh, Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2024

Open access:

Ben Laws, Asylum and Nonreligion: Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Stefan Arnold & Bettina Heiderhoff, eds., Children in Migration and International Family Law: The Child’s Best Interests Principle at the Interface of Migration Law and Family Law, Springer, Dec. 2024

Eleanor Paynter, Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2024 

Anne White, Polish Cities of Migration: The Migration Transition in Kalisz, Piła and Płock, UCL Press, Nov. 2024

Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach & Max Walden, eds., Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2024

S Irudaya Rajan, ed., South Asia Migration Report 2024: Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Vanessa Agnew, ed., What We Brought with Us: Things of Exile and Migration, transcript Verlag, Oct. 2024

New Books: September 2024 - Pt. 1

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

September 2024:

Ellen Desmet, Milena Belloni, Dirk Vanheule, Jinske Verhellen & Ayse Güdük, eds., Family Reunification in Europe: Exposing Inequalities, Routledge, Sept. 2024

- Note: Chapter 16 is open access.

Tom Scott-Smith, Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter, Stanford Univ. Press, Sept 2024

Dipak Basu & Victoria W. Miroshnik, India, Citizenship, and Refugee Crisis: Political History of Hatred and Sorrow, Lexington Books, Sept. 2024

August 2024:

Valerie Hänsch, The Attempt to Stay: Dam Building, Displacement, and Resistance in the Nile Valley, Sudan, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2024

 Raúl Delgado Wise, Branka Likic-Brboric, Ronaldo Munck & Carl-Ulrik Schierup, eds., Handbook on Migration and Development: A Counter-hegemonic Perspective (Edward Elgar, Aug. 2024) 

Polly Zavadivker, A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2024

Andrea Hammel & Stephanie Homer, eds., The Second and Third Generation: The Legacy of Forced Migration from Nazi Europe, Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 23 (Brill, Aug. 2024) 

Ewa Łaźniewska, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, Tomasz Górecki, Khrystyna Prytula & Klaudia Plac, War Refugees and the Labour Market: Crisis-Driven Mobility in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland, Routledge, Aug. 2024 

Legal texts:

Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade, eds., Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Katia Bianchini, Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2024

New Books: August 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Angela Di Stasi, Ida Caracciolo, Giovanni Cellamare & Pietro Gargiulo, eds., International Migration and the Law: Legal Approaches to a Global Challenge, Routledge, Aug. 2024

- Note: This volume is open access.

Denard Veshi, Refugees and the Law in Challenging Times: A Law and Economics Approach, Springer, July 2024

Open access:

Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, eds., Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South, Berghahn Books, Aug 2024

Mohammad Musfequs Salehin, Gendered Vulnerabilities and Violence in Forced Migration: The Rohingya from Myanmar, Springer, July 2024

Sophie Andreetta & Lisa Marie Borrelli, eds., Governing Migration Through Paperwork: Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation, Berghahn Books, Aug 2024

Dorota Moroń, Małgorzata Madej & Judit Csoba, eds., Humanitarian Aid and Empowerment of Ukrainian Refugees: The Case of Visegrad Group Countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, Routledge, Aug. 2024

Nicholas Maple, Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa, Univ. of London Press, July 2024

Katia Iacono, Barbara Heinisch & Sonja Pöllabauer, eds., Zwischenstationen: Kommunikation mit geflüchteten Menschen = Inbetween: Communicating with Refugees, Frank & Timme, July 2024

- Chapters are written in either English or German.

New Books: April 2020 - Pt. 2

March 2020:

Giuliana Laschi, Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes, eds., Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992), Routledge, March 2020

Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico & Douglas H. Ubelaker, eds., Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, 2 vols., Wiley, March 2020

Izabella Majcher, Michael Flynn & Mariette Grange, Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the 'Crisis', Springer, March 2020

Gillian Brock, Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2020

Olga Oleinikova, Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes: Achiever or Survivor?, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2020

Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer & James Crossland, eds., The Red Cross Movement: Myths, Practices and Turning Points, Manchester University Press, March 2020

Elodie Rémy, Réfugiés: L'Hébergement chez des Particuliers - Des Liens Qui Rendent Libres,  L'Harmattan, March 2020

Pamela Ballinger, The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy, Cornell University Press, March 2020

Open Access:

Charles Oberg, ed., Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children, MDPI, March 2020

Julian Agyeman & Sydney Giacalone, eds., The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America, MIT Press, March 2020

Sabrina Ellebrecht, Mediated Bordering: EUROSUR, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border, De Gruyter, March 2020