Showing posts with label asylum seekers. Show all posts
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01 September 2026

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


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

03 August 2026

New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

July 2026:

Purna Banerjee & Priya Singh, eds., Fractured Spaces: Intersectional Approaches to Migration and Displacement, Springer, July 2026 

 John Washington, Paperback, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, Haymarket Books, July 2026 
- Focuses on the US.

Jun Sung Hong, Jennifer M. Bondy & Anthony A. Peguero, eds., Violence and Trauma Without Borders: Perspectives of Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026
- Focuses on the US.

Legal texts:


Thomas Mulder, Solidarity in International Disaster Response Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2026

Open access:

Edanur Yazici, The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice, Policy Press, July 2026


Nóra Béres, ed., International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law: From the Perspective of Human Rights Law, Central European Academic Publishing, July 2026


Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata, Jade Siu & Olivier Sterck, The Refugee Trap: The Economics of Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2026

01 January 2026

New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in January 2026, while Part 2 lists additional December 2025 titles, as well as new reference, legal and open access texts.

January 2026:

Ofer Gazit, Hamutal Sadan & Sarah Hankins, eds., Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making, Routledge, Jan. 2026 


Duncan McLean, Françoise Duroch & Amy Mavor, eds., Humanitarian Myths and Hubris: A Critical Self-Portrait from Médecins Sans Frontières, Routledge, Jan. 2026


Daniel Rauhut & Marika Gruber, eds., Refugee Housing in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Dimensional Governance, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026


Georgina Colby & Jane Freedman, eds., Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony, Liverpool Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Kerstin von Brömssen & Live Stretmo, eds., Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations: Multidisciplinary Understandings and Key Concepts, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026


Rebecca Buxton & Samuel Ritholtz, The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge, Univ. of California Press, Jan. 2026

New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

December 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:



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


01 July 2025

New Books: July 2025 - Pt. 1

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

July 2025:


Thomas A. Krainz, A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West, July 2025, Univ. of Nebraska Press, July 2025

S. Irudaya Rajan, ed., Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025 

Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter & Thabani Mutambasere, Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025



June 2025:


Didier Fassin & Anne-Claire Defossez, Exile: Chronicle of the Border, Polity Books, June 2025


Dale Dominey-Howes, Ashleigh Rushton, William Leonard, Marcilyn Cianfarani, Lisa Overton & Haorui Wu, eds., Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises, Springer, June 2025

New Books: July 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

Legal texts:

Vincent Chetail, ed., Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025

Open access:


Johanna Leinonen, Miika Tervonen, Hans Otto Frøland, Christhard Hoffmann, Seija Jalagin, Heidi Vad Jønsson & Malin Thor Tureby, eds., Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories, Helsinki Univ. Press, June 2025

Nasir Uddin, ed., Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2025

Paolo Boccagni, Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance, Univ. of California Press, June 2025


01 October 2024

New Books: October 2024 - Pt. 1

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

October 2024:

Christina Clark-Kazak, Aging In and Out of Place: Lived Experiences of Forced Migration Across the Life Course, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2024

Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli & Bukola Salami, eds., De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice, De Gruyter, Oct. 2024

Min Wha Han, Eun-Jeong Han & JongHwa Lee, eds., Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora Within Homeland, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Clarena Larrotta & Merih Ugurel-Kamisli, eds., English Literacy Educators Working with Refugee Families: An Intercultural Approach to Adult Education, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Brianna Nofil, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

Carol Cleaveland & Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum, NYU Press, Oct. 2024
- Focuses on the US.

- Focuses on Canada.

Legal texts:

Marie Aronsson-Storrier & Susan C. Breau, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Open access:

Charlotte Röhner, Jessica Schwittek & Antoanneta Potsi, eds., Transmigration und Place-making junger Geflüchteter = Transmigration and place-making of young refugees, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2024
- Chapters are in English or German.

Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2024
- Focuses on refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya.

03 April 2023

New Books: April 2023 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in April and March 2023, while part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

April 2023:


Hari Mohan Mathur, ed., Good Practices in Resettlement: An Approach to Improving Development Outcomes, Lexington Books, April 2023



Bridget Marie Haas, Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System, Univ. of California Press, April 2023

March 2023:

Amit Ranjan, Rajesh Kharat & Pallavi Deka, eds., Environment, Climate Change and Migration in South Asia, Routledge, March 2023

Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Anna Papoutsi, Nando Sigona & Paladia Ziss, eds., Migration, Displacement and Diversity: The IRiS Anthology, Oxford Publishing Services, March 2023

Anna Rowlands & Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2023

Ayhan Kaya & Alexander K. Nagel, eds., Politics of Subsidiarity in Refugee Reception, Routledge, March 2023 

Mustafa Atilla Arıcıoğlu, Özdal Koyuncuoğlu & Abdullah Oktay Dündar, eds., Refugee and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: An Economic and Social Perspective from Türkiye, Springer, March 2023

Mattias De Backer, Peter Hopkins, Ilse van Liempt, Robin Finlay, Elisabeth Kirndörfer, Mieke Kox, Matthew C. Benwell & Kathrin Hörschelmann, eds., Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space, Bristol Univ. Press, March 2023

Frank D. Bean & Susan K Brown, eds., Selected Topics in Migration Studies, Springer, March 2023

Valeria Bello & Sarah Léonard, eds., The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration in the European Union, Routledge, March 2023

Jan Plamper, We Are All Migrants: A History of Multicultural Germany, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2023 

01 September 2022

New Books: September 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

August 2022:

Y-Dang Troeung, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, Temple Univ. Press, Aug. 2022 

Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki & Alison Summers, Seeking Asylum and Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Professionals, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2022

- Focuses on the US.

Andrew S. Rosenberg, Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration, Princeton Univ. Press, Aug. 2022

Legal text:

Jennifer L. Whelan, Reconceptualising Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers and the Law, Routledge, Sept. 2022
- Focuses on Australia.

Open access:

James Foley & Umut Korkut, Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders, Amsterdam Univ. Press, Aug. 2022 

Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn & Kirsten Lamb, eds., Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness, Routledge, Sept. 2022

Gioconda Herrera & Carmen Gómez, eds., Migration in South America: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, Aug. 2022

05 December 2019

New Books: December 2019 - Pt. 2

This is part 2 of the "New Books: December 2019" post.

November 2019:

Helen T. Boursier, Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage, and Love, Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2019

Lucian N. Leustean, ed., Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World, Routledge, Nov. 2019

Zoë O’Reilly, The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2019

Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanović & Andrea Spehar, Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2019

David Miller & Christine Straehle, eds., The Political Philosophy of Refuge, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2019

Karina Horsti, ed., The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2019

Bob Cowin, Refugee Countdown: A Canadian-American Partnership to Resettle a Syrian Family, Friesen Press, Nov. 2019

Christine Inglis, Wei Li & Binod Khadria, eds., The SAGE Handbook of International Migration, SAGE Publishing, Nov. 2019

Helen Forbes-Mewett, Vulnerability in a Mobile World, Emerald Publishing, Nov. 2019

October 2019:

Ufuk Bingöl, ed., Immigration Policy Studies: Theoretical and Empirical Migration Researches, Peter Lang, Oct. 2019

Robin Cohen, Migration: The Movement of Humankind from Prehistory to the Present, Andre Deutsch Ltd, Oct. 2019

Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn &  Radhika Gajjala, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration, SAGE Publishing, Oct. 2019

Open Access:

Marie Juul Petersen & Steffen Bo Jensen, eds., Faith in the System? Religion in the (Danish) Asylum System, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2019

Anne C. Schenderlein, Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2019

Gaye Yılmaz, İsmail Doğa Karatepe & Tolga Tören, eds., Integration through Exploitation: Syrians in Turkey, Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2019

Ray Jureidini & Said Fares Hassan, eds., Migration and Islamic Ethics: Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship, Brill, Nov. 2019



01 September 2018

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



01 August 2018

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


01 June 2018

New Books: June 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in June. There are also additional references to books published in May, new legal texts, and an open access book!

June 2018:

Michael M. Cernea & Julie K. Maldonado, eds., Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, Solutions, Routledge, June 2018

Paul Jackson & Danielle Beswick, Conflict, Security and Development: An Introduction, 3rd ed., Routledge, June 2018

Ayesha Ahmad & James Smith, eds., Humanitarian Action and Ethics, Zed Books, June 2018

Bram J. Jansen, Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City, Zed Books, June 2018

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, ed., Migrants, Refugees, and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, Routledge, June 2018

Brenden W. Rensink, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, Texas A&M University Press, June 2018

Ala Sirriyeh, The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy, Policy Press, June 2018

Bimal Ghosh, Refugee and Mixed Migration Flows: Managing a Looming Humanitarian and Economic Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2018

Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh & Annamari Vitikainen, eds., Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility, Routledge, June 2018

Eileen Truax, We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond, Verso Books, June 2018

May 2018:

Timofey Agarin and Nevena Nancheva, eds., A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe, ibidem Press, May 2018

David Townes, ed., Health in Humanitarian Emergencies: Principles and Practice for Public Health and Healthcare Practitioners, Cambridge University Press, May 2018

Pauline Gardiner Barber & Winnie Lem, eds., Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018

Loshini Naidoo, Jane Wilkinson, Misty Adoniou & Kiprono Langat, Refugee Background Students Transitioning into Higher Education: Navigating Complex Spaces, Springer, May 2018

Legal Texts:

Rashida Manjoo & Jackie Jones, eds., The Legal Protection of Women From Violence: Normative Gaps in International Law, Routledge, April 2018

David James Cantor, Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict: International Law and Its Application in Colombia, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018

Sonja C. Grover, Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right: Selected Case Law on State Resistance, Springer, May 2018

Irwin P. Stotzky, Send Them Back, Carolina Academic Press, June 2018
- Focuses on litigation to support Haitian refugees in the U.S.

Simon Behrman, Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance, Routledge, June 2018

Open Access:

Julia Dahlvik, Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria, Springer, May 2018