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: June 2021

June 2021:

Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock & Bassam Abu Hamad, eds., Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities, Routledge, June 2021

Anne Sophie Krossa, Analysing Society in a Global Context: Empirical Studies on Sociation Processes of Volunteers and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2021

Alexandra Cosima Budabin & Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Elisa Pascucci, eds., Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders, Routledge, June 2021

Daniel Bertrand Monk & Andrew Herscher, The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Marry-Anne Karlsen, Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway, Routledge, June 2021 

Erling Lorentzen Sogge, The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon: A Political History of the 'Ayn al-Hilwe Camp, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Giles Merritt, People Power: Why We Need More Migrants, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Hasret Çomak, Burak Şakir Şeker, Mehlika Özlem Ultan, Yaprak Civelek & Çağla Arslan Bozkuş, eds., Refugee Crisis in International Policy, vol. 1: Legal and Social Statuses of Refugees, Transnational Press London, June 2021 

Andrejs Plakans, The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West after World War II, Brill, June 2021

May 2021:

Jason A. Dzubow, Asylumist: How to Seek Asylum in the United States and Keep Your Sanity, Palmyra Books, May 2021

Vinzenz Kratzer, Governmental Migration Research in Germany: Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, transcript Verlag, May 2021

Mo Yee Lee, ed., Immigrant and Refugee Youth and Families: Research and Practice, Routledge, May 2021

Legal texts:

Laura Hughes-Gerber, Diplomatic Asylum: Exploring a Legal Basis for the Practice Under General International Law, Springer, May 2021

Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster & McAdam, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2021

- Note: See also this related blog post with links to preprints of books chapters.

Open access:

Lore Van Praag, Loubna Ou-Salah, Elodie Hut & Caroline Zickgraf, Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes, Springer, May 2021

Alice Massari, Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, Springer, May 2021

New Books: August 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in August. There are also a few references to books published in June and July as well as a legal text.

August 2019:

Khaled Hassine, Handling Climate Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2019

Hamza Safouane, Stories of Border Crossers: A Critical Inquiry into Forced Migrants’ Journey Narratives to the European Union, Springer, Aug. 2019

Nina Maadad, Syrian Refugee Children in Australia and Sweden: Education and Survival among the Displaced, Dispossessed and Disrupted, Routledge, August 2019

Peter, Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent, Basic Books, August 2019

July 2019:

Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel & Sam Tyano, eds., An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health, Springer, July 2019

Robin Andersen & Adrian Bergmann, Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence, Routledge, July 2019

Sinja Hantscher, The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019

June 2019:

Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara & Tineke Strik, eds., Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered, Edward Elgar, June 2019
- Note: Chapter 1 is freely available.

Legal text:

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, August 2019

New Books: December 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in December. There are also a number of additional references to books published in November and a new legal text.

December 2018:

Andrew Nelson, Alexander Rödlach & Roos Willems, eds., The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

Johannes Paulmann, ed., Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2018

Anwesha Ghosh, Identity and Marginality in India: Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Michel Agier, The Jungle: Calais's Camps and Migrants, Polity Books, Dec. 2018

Nexhmedin Morina & Angela Nickerson, eds., Mental Health of Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations: Theory, Research and Clinical Practice, Srpinger, Dec. 2018

Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz & Barbara Frey, eds., Mexico's Human Rights Crisis, University of Pennsylvania Press, Dec. 2018

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2018

Gerasimos Tsourapas, The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2018

Zeynep Şahin Mencütek, Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Derese G. Kassa, Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

Marco Catarci, Miguel Prata Gomes & Sávio Siqueira, eds., Refugees, Interculturalism and Education, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Stephen M. Croucher, Joao R. Caetano & Elsa A. Campbell, eds., The Routledge Companion to Migration, Communication, and Politics, Routledge, Dec. 2018

Hille Haker & Molly Greening, eds., Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives, Lexington Books, Dec. 2018

November 2018:

Laura Zanfrini, The Challenge of Migration in a Janus-Faced Europe, Palgrave Pivot, Nov. 2018

Idil Atak & James C. Simeon, eds., The Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences, McGill-Queen's University Press, Nov. 2018

Sebastián Villa, Gloria Urrea, Jaime Andrés Castañeda & Erik R. Larsen, eds., Decision-making in Humanitarian Operations: Strategy, Behavior and Dynamics, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Dilek Karal, Ethico-political Governmentality of Immigration and Asylum: The Case of Ethiopia, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Martin Bulmer & John Solomos, eds., Migration and Race in Europe, Routledge, Nov. 2018

Andrea Paras, Moral Obligations and Sovereignty in International Relations: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism, Routledge, Nov. 2018

Antonis Vradis, Evie Papada, Joe Painter & Anna Papoutsi, New Borders: Migration, Hotspots and the European Superstate, Pluto Press, Nov. 2018

Yannis Hamilakis, ed., The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration, Equinox Publishing, Nov. 2018

Mark Duffield, Post-Humanitarianism Governing Precarity in the Digital World, Polity Books, Nov. 2018

Brittany Lehman, Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2018

Ruth Amir, Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention, Lexington Books, Nov. 2018

Legal Text:

Isabel M. Borges, Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law: From Legal Protection Gaps to Protection Solutions, Routledge, Dec. 2018

New Books: March 2018

March 2018:

Sally Adnams Jones, Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma After Natural Disasters, War and Other Crises, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, March 2018

Jenna M. Loyd & Alison Mountz, Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States, University of California Press, March 2018

Eric T. Jennings, Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean, Harvard University Press, March 2018

Timofey Agarin & Nevena Nancheva, eds., A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe, Ibidem Press, March 2018

Robert McLeman & François Gemenne, eds., Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration, Routledge, March 2018

Donatella della Porta, ed., Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Contentious Moves, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2018

Michelle Pace & Somdeep Sen, eds., Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe: Integrating the Young and Exiled, Routledge, March 2018
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February 2018:

Anna Triandafyllidou, ed., Handbook of Migration and Globalisation, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2018

January 2018:

Karla McKanders, "Morocco at the Crossroads: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Refugee Status," Chapter 8 in Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary?, Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2018
- An abstract for this chapter is available via SSRN.

Legal Texts:

Elena Katselli Proukaki, ed., Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement: Individual Rights under International Law, Routledge, March 2018

Jill I. Goldenziel, "When Law Migrates: Refugees in Comparative International Law," Chapter in Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2018

Eve Lester, Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia, Cambridge University Press, March 2018