New Books: February 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

January 2026:

Annet Adong, Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements in the Anthropocene: Incentives and Consequences in the Great Lake Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Special Focus on Northern Uganda, Springer, Jan. 2026

Benjamin Nangle & Giedrė Blažyte, The Construction of Hostility Towards Migrants: The Case of the Lithuanian-Belarusian Border Crisis of 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026 

Joseph Zajda & Patricia Kubow, eds., Globalisation and Education for Refugee and Displaced Children: Education and Policy Reforms in Non-Western Contexts, Springer, Feb. 2026

Maria Schiller & Peter Scholten, eds., Handbook on Migration and Public Policy, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

K. Bruce Newbold & Mary Crea-Arsenio, eds., A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

Murtaza Faruquee, Sarah Saqib, Afra Nur Akman & MD Shariful Alam, eds., Resilience Lessons from Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Framework for Capabilities Integration, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Nimo Bokore, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees, Springer, Jan. 2026

Open access:

Maria Framke, Between Empire and Nation: South Asian Humanitarianism in the Late Colonial Period, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2025

Morten Skovdal & Lena Skovgaard Andersen, eds., Continuity of Care for Forcibly Displaced Persons Living with Chronic Illness, Policy Press, Feb. 2026

Mark Rainey, Restless Justice: Asylum, Homelessness and Volunteering, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the UK. 

Claudio Minca & Yolanda Weima, eds., Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

New Books: February 2025

February 2025:

Erika Herrera Rosales, Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Shahd Abusalama, Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2025

José A. Brandariz, Giulia Fabini, Cristina Fernández-Bessa & Valeria Ferraris, eds., Border Criminologies from the Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality, Feb. 2025

Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman & Stuart Dunmore, eds., The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities, Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2025

Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton & Nicole Denier, The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City, Russell Sage Foundation, Feb. 2025

Sophia Balakian, Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, Stanford Univ. Press, Feb. 2025

January 2025:

Marija Grujić, Belonging in Unhomely Homelands: Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025 

Hiroshi Motomura, Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2025 

Gabriele Volpato, Desert Entanglements: The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025

Wills Kalisha & Tomasz Szkudlarek, eds., Educating the Next Generation: Reflections on Crises, Migration, and Education, Springer, Jan. 2025 

Maria Anita Stefanelli & Izabela Skórzynska, eds., Scars of War: Migration, Security and Sustainable Future, Emerald Publishing, Jan. 2025

Legal texts:

Marc Bossuyt, Right to Asylum: Between Demagogy and Hypocrisy, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2025

Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Open access:

Hanspeter Kriesi, Crisis Policymaking in the EU: The COVID-19 Crisis and the Refugee Crisis 2015-16 Compared, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

Marcus Otto & Tania Saeed, eds., Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education: Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings, Nov. 2024

Seyla Benhabib & Ayelet Shachar, eds., Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

Tamirace Fakhoury & Dawn Chatty, eds., Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics, I.B. Tauris, Jan. 2025

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: June 2020 - Pt. 1

Part 2 lists new legal texts and Open Access titles.

June 2020:

Robert F. Barsky, Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees' Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country, Routledge, June 2020

Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants, Princeton Univ. Press, June 2020

Silvia Pasquetti & Romola Sanyal, eds., Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, Manchester Univ. Press, June 2020

Hülya Kaya, The EU-Turkey Statement on Refugees: Assessing Its Impact on Fundamental Rights, Edward Elgar, June 2020

Jana K. Lipman, In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates, Univ. of California Press, June 2020

Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade & Page R. Laws, eds., Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape, Lexington Books, June 2020

Sonia Shah, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2020

Sourav Kumar Das & Nidhi Chowdhary, Refugee Crises and Third-World Economies: Policies and Perspectives, Emerald Publishing, June 2020

Colin Yeo, Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System, Bite Back Publishing, June 2020
- See also related book review.

May 2020:

Mary Crock, Kate Bones, Daniel Ghezelbash, Jemma Hollonds & Mary Anne Kenny, Children and Young People in Asylum and Refugee Processes: Towards Best Practice, Federation Press, May 2020 

Nasreen Chowdhory & Biswajit Mohanty, eds., Citizenship, Nationalism and Refugeehood of Rohingyas in Southern Asia, Springer, May 2020 

Derya Güngör & Dagmar Strohmeier, eds., Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience: Cultural and Acculturation Perspectives, Springer, May 2020

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health: The Next Wave of Migration, Springer, May 2020

Jia Lynn Yang, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965, W.W. Norton, May 2020

Khalid Arar, School Leadership for Refugees’ Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, May 2020

New Books: October 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in October. There are also references to books published in September as well as several new legal texts.

October 2019:

Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, Simon & Schuster, Oct. 2019

Gil Richard Musolf, ed., Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope, Emerald Books, Oct. 2019

Susanna M. Hoffman & Roberto E. Barrios, eds., Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2019

Cynthia Anderson, Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town, Public Affairs Books, Oct. 2019

Meryam Schouler-Ocak and Marianne C. Kastrup, eds., Intercultural Psychotherapy: For Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Minority Patients, Springer, Oct. 2019

Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli & David Jacobson, eds., Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2019

Clarke Rountree & Jouni Tilli, eds., National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods, Michigan State Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Şule Can, Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads, Routledge, Oct. 2019

Rania M. Rafik Khalil & Froilan T. Malit, Jr, eds., Recent Migrations and Refugees in the MENA Region, Transnational Press, Oct. 2019

Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Jill Casner-Lotto & Teresita B. Wisell, eds., Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All: How Community Colleges and Immigrants are Changing America, Rowman & Littlefield, Oct. 2019

September 2019:

Albert Ali Salah, Alex Pentland, Bruno Lepri & Emmanuel Letouzé, eds., Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study, Springer, Sept. 2019

Shane Joshua Barter & William Ascher, eds., Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration, Peter Lang, Sept. 2019

Nicos Trimikliniotis, Migration and the Refugee Dissensus in Europe: Borders, Security and Austerity, Routledge, Sept. 2019

William D. Lopez, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Sept. 2019

Guang Pan, A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945): History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern, Springer, Sept. 2019

Ugur Yildiz, Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Mobility of Non-European Refugees to Canada via Turkey, Routledge, Sept. 2019

Legal texts:

Dree K. Collopy, AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 8th ed., American Immigration Lawyers Association, Aug. 2019

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Leah Zamore, The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, Stanford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019

New Books: February 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in February. There are also references to books published in January and December as well as a new legal text title.

February 2019:

Laurie L. Charlés & Gameela Samarasinghe, eds., Family Systems and Global Humanitarian Mental Health: Approaches in the Field, Springer, Feb. 2019

Gordon DiGiacomo & Susan L. Kang, eds., The Institutions of Human Rights: Developments and Practices, Univ. of Toronto Press, Feb. 2019
- See esp. Chapter 6, "Protecting Refugee Rights: International Refugee Law and the UNHCR."

Cecilia Menjívar, Marie Ruiz & Immanuel Ness, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2019

Barbara K. Eisold, Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process: Encountering Well-Founded Fear, Routledge, Feb. 2019

Trine Øland, Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State, Routledge, Feb. 2019

January 2019:

Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe, Stanford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019

Pascale Allotey & Daniel Reidpath, eds., The Health of Refugees: Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019

Daphna Sharfman, Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik: The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948, Routledge, Jan. 2019

Gaja Maestri, Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation: The Contentious Politics of Roma and Migrant Housing, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2019

Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta & Katie Willis, eds., Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice, Policy Press, Jan. 2019

December 2018:

Susana de Sousa Ferreira, Human Security and Migration in Europe's Southern Borders, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2018

Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova & Denise Venturi, eds., LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, Springer, Dec. 2018

Alexander Krämer & Florian Fischer, eds., Refugee Migration and Health: Challenges for Germany and Europe, Springer, Dec. 2018

Elisabeth Wacker, Ulrich Becker & Katharina Crepaz, eds., Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU: Comparative and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges and Solutions, Springer, Dec. 2018

Legal texts:

Charlotte Lülf, Conflict Displacement and Legal Protection: Understanding Asylum, Human Rights and Refugee Law, Routledge, Feb. 2019

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