New Books: August 2026 - Pt. 1

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

August 2026:

Kelsey P. Norman &  Nicholas R. Micinski, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2026

John Kluge Jr. & Christine Mahoney, Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone, Columbia University Press, Aug. 2026

Chrysi Kyratsou, Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece: Refugees Musicking, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Ergün Özgür Liy, ed., Highly Qualified Immigrants and Refugees: Agency, Challenges and Opportunities across Europe – Türkiye, transcript Publishing, Aug. 2026

Giuseppe Motta, Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State, Routledge, Aug. 2026

Dalton T. Sirmans, The Refugee Advantage: Building Enterprise in the Face of Adversity, Bloomsbury, Aug. 2026

Bruce Bennett & Katarzyna Marciniak, Refugee Cinema, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Olga Oleinikova & Xin Janet Ge, Refugees at University: Access, Belonging, and What Comes After, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026

- Focuses on Australia.

Silvia Pasquetti, Refugees Together and Citizens Apart: Control, Emotions, and Politics at the Palestinian Margins. Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Manya Oriel Kagan, Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda: Rethinking Integration Policies, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

Nicholas De Genova & Daniel I. Morales, eds., Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Struggles and the Law, Duke Univ. Press, Aug. 2026

Chad Hoggan & Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert, Transitions, Learning, and Material Culture: Ukrainian War Refugees and the Objects They Carried, Routledge, Aug. 2026 

New Books: July 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in July 2026, while Part 2 lists additional June 2026 titles and open access books.

July 2026:

Charity Lee, Yating Chen & Kumaran Rajandran, Analysing Forced Migration: A Discourse-informed Approach, Springer, July 2026

John Kluge Jr. & Christine Mahoney, Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone, Columbia Univ. Press, July 2026 

Jared Keyel, Care Over Cruelty: American Wars, Displacement, and Refugee Resettlement, De Gruyter, July 2026

Danielle E. Sachdeva, ed., Immigration-Themed Youth Literature: Perspectives for K–12 Educators, Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, July 2026

Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Inside the Bureaucracy of Immigration Detention: Disgust, Contempt, and Humiliation, Routledge, July 2026

Md. Shihab Uddin & Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Media, Diplomacy and Forced Migration, Springer, July 2026

Enrica Rigo, Migration, Asylum and Exploitation: A Feminist Legal Perspective, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2026

Brian Drohan & Margot Tudor, eds., Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, Cornell Univ. Press, July 2026

- Note: Chapter 8, "Paths to Peace: UNRRA and the US Military in China, 1945–47," is open access.

Natasha Kay Mortley & Andrea N. Baldwin, eds., Reconceptualising Caribbean Migration: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives, Springer, July 2026 

Chrysi Kyratsou, Refugees Musicking: Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece, Routledge, July 2026 

Salvador Santino Regilme, eds., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights, De Gruyter, July 2026

Ernest Nnadigwe, Trauma, Masculinity and Family and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Understanding of African Men from Refugee Backgrounds in Western Australia, Springer, July 2026 

Ludek Stavinoha, Unruly Subjects: Migration, Solidarity and Resistance in Greece, Manchester Univ. Press, July 2026

New Books: November 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

October 2025:

Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud & Deema Refai, Arab Refugee Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities in Jordan and Lebanon, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025 

Muhammed Serhat Semercioğlu & Ahmet Oğuz Akçay, eds., Foundational Education of Primary-Level Refugee Students: Advancing Fundamental Subject Knowledge, Springer, Oct. 2025

Bronte Alexander, Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil's Northern Frontier, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja & Johanna Gördemann, eds., Handbook of Migration Ethics, Springer, Oct. 2025

Paula Banerjee, Nasreen Chowdhory & Priya Singh, eds., The Postcolonial Compendium: Keywords in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2025 

Mohammad Zaman, Robert Anderson & Kawser Ahmed, eds., Rohingya Stories: History and Geopolitics in a Multipolar World, Springer, Oct. 2025

Nasir Uddin, ed., Scattered Lives of ‘Stateless’ People: The Rohingyas in SAARC & ASEAN Countries, Springer, Oct. 2025

Legal texts:

Jenny Poon, Counteracting Containment Policies in the EU: Safeguarding the Non-Refoulement Principle, Springer, Oct. 2025

Niovi Vavoula, Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Valsamis Mitsilegas, eds., Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU, Routledge, Sept. 2025

- A preprint version of the introduction is available via SSRN.

Open access:

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2023/2024, transcript Verlag, 2025 

- The theme of this edition is "Gender*Queer." Contributed chapters are in either German or English.

Ryuji Hattori & Tual Sawn Khai, Japan’s Humanitarian Aid Toward Myanmar After the 2021 Coup: Exploring Four Channels Amid the Weaponization of Assistance, Springer, Sept. 2025

Janine Dahinden & Andreas Pott, eds., Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives, Springer, Nov. 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: December 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in December 2024, while Part 2 lists additional November 2024 titles as well as new open access texts.

December 2024:

Samuel J. Spiegel, Blessing Mucherera, Sidra Idrees, Francesco Moze, Kanak Rajadhyaksha Boel McAteer, Thabani Mutambasere, Georgia Cole, Jean-Benoit Falisse & Savan Qadir, Displacement, Borders, and Unsettling Narratives: Critical Directions for Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Adam Lichtenheld, Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko & Maggy Lee, eds., Handbook on Border Criminology, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2024

Marco d’Errico, Donato Romano & Paul Winters, eds., How Close is Close? Assessing Uganda’s Progressive Refugee Policy in the Era of COVID-19, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Mohamed Elmi, Wendy Cukier, Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi & Guang Ying Mo, eds., Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024

Núria Carrete-Marín & Francesc Buscà, Physical Activity and Sport as Social Inclusion Tool for Refugees: A Pedagogical Approach, Springer, Dec. 2024

Lena El-Malak, Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees, I.B. Tauris, Dec. 2024

Mary Bosworth, Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control, Princeton Univ. Press, Dec. 2024 

William Plowright, The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis, Cornell Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

New Books: November 2024 - Pt. 1

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

November 2024:

Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Assessing the Common European Asylum System: Discretionary Implementation and Street-Level Bureaucracy, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2024

Emanuel Deutschmann, Lucas G. Drouhot, Carolina V. Zuccotti & Emilio Zagheni, eds., Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies, Routledge, Nov. 2024

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

Laura Kromják & Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović, eds., Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Communities, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Maria-Artemis Kolliniati, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Asylum Centers in Greece and Philosophical Values, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Lina Caswell Muñoz & Sarah Diaz , eds., Kids in Cages: Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention, Univ. of Arizona Press, Nov. 2024

- Focuses on the US.

Nadeera Ranabahu, Huibert P. de Vries & Robert T. Hamilton, eds., Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Maria Sophia Aguirre & Antonio Argandoña, eds., The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move, Routledge, Nov. 2024

Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ranabir Samaddar, eds., Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas, SUNY Press, Nov. 2024

October 2024:

William L. Allen & Carlos Vargas-Silva, eds., Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Oct. 2024

- Note: Chapters 1, 6, 9 and 13 are free to access.

Mojib Rahman Atal, Institutional Violence against Afghan Refugees: An Analysis of Violence in Institutions in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden from a Comparative Perspective, Springer, Oct. 2024

Rui Alexandre Novais & Carlos Arcila Calderón, eds., Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2024 

Mohamad Zreik, The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Lebanon's Economic Landscape: The Impact of Forced Migration on GDP, Unemployment, Inflation and Trade, Springer, Oct. 2024

New Books: July 2024 - Pt. 1

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

July 2024:

Billy Holzberg, Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control, Manchester Univ. Press, July 2024

- Focuses on Germany.

A. Nuno Martins, Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, Liliane Hobeica, Jorge León & Adib Hobeica, eds., Beyond Houses: Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises, Springer, July 2024 

Erica Allen-Kim, Building Little Saigon: Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs, Univ. of Texas Press, July 2024

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

Ludger Pries & Rafael Bohlen, Forced Migration: An Integrative Perspective for the 21st Century, Edward Elgar, July 2024

Ludger Pries, Stephanie Schütze, Ximena Alba Villalever & Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci, Forced Migration in Transit: Migrant Experiences of Organized Violence in Mexico and Turkey, Routledge, July 2024

Lisa Unangst, Immigrants and Refugees at German Universities: Diversity, Internationalization and Anticolonial Considerations, Routledge, July 2024

Michelle Peterie, ed., Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration, Routledge, July 2024

Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos, Karla Valenzuela-Moreno & Liliana Meza González, eds., Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico: Governance, Civil Society, and Public Opinion, Routledge, July 2024

Jalal Al Husseini, Norig Neveu & Valentina Napolitano, eds., Migrations in Jordan: Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies, I.B. Tauris, July 2024

Eva-Maria Walther, Refugee Support and Moral Practice in Slovakia: An Ethnographic Study, Anthem Press, July 2024

June 2024:

P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods, African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism, Lexington Books, June 2024 

Stefano Bianchini, Federica Bandini & Daniela Bolzani, eds., Social Entrepreneurship and Migrants' Inclusion: Insights from the Adriatic-Ionian Region, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2024

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:

Katherine Luongo, African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking: Border-Crossing Beliefs, Routledge, April 2023

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

Chin Ruamps, The Humanitarian Exit Dilemma: The Moral Cost of Withdrawing Aid, Routledge, April 2023

Sara Salman, The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need, NYU Press, 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 

New Books: October 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in October. There are also additional references to books published in July, August, and September.

October 2018:

Robert E. Bartholomew & Anja Reumschuessel, American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants, Penguin Random House, Oct. 2018

Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez & Chigumi Kawaguchi, eds., Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (Routledge, Oct. 2018)

Peter L. Patrick, Monika S. Schmid & Karin Zwaan, eds., Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin: Current Perspectives and New Directions, Springer, Oct. 2018 

Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, Univ. of California Press, Oct. 2018 

Tamara Caraus & Elena Paris, eds., Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance: A Radical Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Routledge, Oct. 2018

Sibylle Heilbrunn, Jörg Freiling & Aki Harima, eds., Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Case-based Topography, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2018 

Margit Feischmidt, Ludger Pries & Celine Cantat, eds., Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2018 

Olga Maya Demetriou, Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject: Reconsidering Minor Losses, SUNY Press, Oct. 2018
- Focuses on Cyprus.

Jacqueline Stevenson & Sally Baker, Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2018

Enakshi Sengupta & Patrick Blessinger , eds., Strategies, Policies and Directions for Refugee Education, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2018

September 2018:

Nathan Riley Carpenter & Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds., Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity, Indiana Univ. Press, Sept. 2018

Pope Francis, A Stranger and You Welcomed Me: A Call to Mercy and Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, Orbis Books, Sept. 2018

August 2018:

Jan Raska, Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada, 1945-1989, Univ. of Manitoba Press, Aug. 2018

Ibrahim Sirkeci, Emília Lana de Freitas Castro & Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, eds., Migration Policy in Crisis, Transnational Press London, Aug. 2018

July 2018:

Mateja Celestina, Living Displacement: The Loss and Making of Place in Colombia, Manchester Univ. Press, July 2018