New Books: February 2026 - Pt. 1

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

February 2026:

Aina Backman, Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden: Being an Outsider Inside the Fence, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech, eds., The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Matthew Hilton, Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Mahmood Monshipouri, Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, and Human Rights in the Middle East, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Dolapo Fakuade & Erman Akilli, Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2026

Paolo Boccagni & Thomas Lacroix, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place, Bristol Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Sophia Pandya, The Hizmet Movement in Exile: Refugees of Turkey's Purge, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2026

Sohail Jannesari, The Migrant Art of Coping, Pluto Books, Feb. 2026

Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen & Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction, Wiley Blackwell, Feb. 2026

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Carolina Valdivia, Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability,
Univ. of California Press, Feb. 2026

Legal texts:

Kirsten McConnachie & Sarah Singer, eds., Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection: International Jurisprudence on the Rights of Refugees, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo, & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 4th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Feb. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

New Books: August 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in August 2021 and new legal and open access texts, while part 2 lists new books published in July 2021 

August 2021:

Scott Imig, Maura Sellars, John Fischetti, Creating Spaces of Wellbeing and Belonging for Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Students: Skills and Strategies for School Leaders, Routledge, Aug. 2021

Susanne Korbel & Philipp Strobl, eds., Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Meditations Through Migrations, Routledge, Aug. 2021

Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Sarah Nell-Müller & Roland Happ, eds., Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education: Opening Universities for Refugees, Springer, Aug. 2021

Leanne Weber & Claudia Tazreiter, eds., Handbook of Migration and Global Justice, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2021

Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza & Gabriela Mezzanotti, eds., Latin America and Refugee Protection: Regimes, Logics and Challenges, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2021

Lydia Morris, The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration: Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain, ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2021

Samantha Seeley, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & Univ. of North Carolina Press, Aug. 2021

Vinh Nguyen & Thy Phu, eds., Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, Univ. of Toronto Press, Aug. 2021

Montse Feu & Amanda Venta, eds., Serving Refugee Children: Listening to Stories of Detention in the USA, Peter Lang, Aug. 2021

Joanna Lewis, Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict, Hurst Publishers, Aug. 2021

Legal text:

David Moya & Georgios Milios, eds., Aliens Before the European Court of Human Rights: Ensuring Minimum Standards of Human Rights Protection, Brill, June 2021

Open access:

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée & Kristian Bjørkdahl, eds., Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, July 2021