New Books: November 2025 - Pt. 1

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

November 2025:

Josip Obradović & Sampson Lee Blair, eds., Families and Migration: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration, Emerald Publishing, Nov. 2025

Marketa Bacakova, Wayne Veck & Julie Wharton, eds., Forced Migration, Disability and Education: Inclusion and Exclusion at the Intersection of Displacement and Disablement, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Karen Jacobsen, Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings, Yale Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Tual Sawn Khai, Irregular Migration in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Barriers to Regularization and Healthcare, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše &Tea Škokić, eds., Keywords of the Balkan Route: The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery, Berghahn Books, Nov. 2025

Adèle Garnier, Sarah Dubuc & Christina R. Clark-Kazak, eds., and Lyse Hébert, transl., La migration forcée au Canada, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

Rachel Hoare, Psychological Support for Refugee Adolescents: An Expressive Arts Approach to Wellbeing and Trauma Recovery, Routledge, Nov. 2025

Eva Plach, Relief on the Hoof: The Seagoing Cowboys, the Heifer Project, and UNRRA in Poland, Northern Illinois University Press, Nov. 2025

Joseph Musasizi, Dharma Arunachalam & Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rethinking Refugee-Host Relations: Cultural Proximity and Historical Links, Routledge, Nov. 2025 

New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 1

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

October 2025:

Marla A. Ramírez, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Andriani Fili, Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Eram Alam, The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Gentille Dusenge, A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life: More to Life than a Refugee Camp, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

Mirna Carranza, The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

Sarah Scott Ford, Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region: Legal Sociology and Human Rights, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Marco Palillo, Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe, Routledge, Oct. 2025

Leila Hudson, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced, Syracuse Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Loretta E. Bass, ed., Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration Around the World, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2025

- Note: One chapter is open access.

Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, ed., Research with Refugee Children and Families: Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights, UBC Press, Oct. 2025 

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: December 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

November 2023:

Bernhard Streitwieser, Katharine Summers & Jessica Crist, eds., Accessing Quality Education: Local and Global Perspectives from Refugees, Lexington Books, Nov. 2023

Rajith W. D. Lakshman & S. Irudaya Rajan, eds., Forced Migration and Urban Transformation in South Asia: Displacement, Resettlement, and Poverty, Springer, Nov. 2023

Merit Hietanen, The Humanitarian Parent: Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector, Routledge, Nov. 2023

William Arrocha & Elena Xeni, eds., Migrations and Diasporas: Struggling Between Inclusion and Exclusion, Emerald, Nov. 2023

Ebenezer Durojaye, Robert Doya Nanima, Abiola Idowu-Ojo & Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, eds., Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa: Our Lives Matter, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2023

Muhammad H. Zaman, We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Nov. 2023

Open access:

Maria-Theres Schuler, Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp, Brill, Nov. 2023

Vinh Nguyen, Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2023 

Sweta Shah, Lucy Bassett, eds., Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: Innovations and Lessons from the Global South, Routledge, Nov. 2023

New Books: May 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in May 2021, while part 2 lists new books published in April 2021 as well as new legal and open access texts.

May 2021:

Alison Peck, The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction, Univ. of California Press, May 2021 

Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan, Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis, McFarland, May 2021 

Rebecca Hamlin, Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move, Stanford Univ. Press, May 2021

Christine Monaghan, Educating for Durable Solutions: Histories of Schooling in Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps, Bloomsbury, May 2021

Martha Montero-Sieburth, Rosa Mas Giralt, Noemi Garcia-Arjona & Joaquín Eguren, eds., Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships, Routledge, May 2021

Jeannette Money & Sarah P. Lockhart, eds., Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century, Routledge, May 2021

Don Vu, Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Supporting Our Immigrant and Refugee Children Through the Power of Reading, Scholastic, May 2021

Natasha Carver, Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom, Rutgers University Press, May 2021

Giorgio Grappi, ed., Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension, Routledge, May 2021

Laure Humbert, Reinventing French Aid: The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945–1952, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2021 

Gil Loescher, Refugees: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021

Sibylla Brodzinsky & Max Schoening, eds., Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence, Haymarket Books, May 2021 

Alexander Betts, The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021