New Books: March 2026 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

February 2026:

Judit Szente, Education of Young Children Caught in Disasters: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Interventions, Springer, Feb. 2026

Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, Anna Gotlib, Ryoa Chung & Deborah Zion, eds., Forced Migration and Health Justice, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2026

Bayes Ahmed & Bishawjit Mallick, eds., Handbook on Climate Mobility, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2026 

Gabrielle Daoust & Synne L. Dyvik, Humanitarianism in the Home: Hosting-at-home and the Politics of Hospitality, Routledge, Feb. 2026

Mălina Ciocea, ed., Ukrainian Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe: Public Debates, Strategic Narratives and Practices, Springer, 2026 

Legal texts:

Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, eds., Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, Jan. 2026

- Focuses on the US.

*Emilie McDonnell, Protecting the Right to Leave in an Era of Externalised Migration Control, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2026 

Spyridoula Katsoni, Shared Responsibility for Multiple International Persons' Contribution to a Refoulement, Springer, Feb. 2026 

Open access:

Carolin Funke & Dennis Dijkzeul, Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises: Robust Human Rights Norms?, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2025

Grażyna Baranowska & Milica Kolaković-Bojović, eds., Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Michelle Obeid, Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London, Berghahn Books, Dec. 2025

Maja Hertoghs, Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus: An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power, Berghahn Books, March 2026

*UPDATED

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: July 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal text:

Richard A. Boswell, Essentials of Immigration Law, 6th ed., American Immigration Lawyers' Assoc., May 2024

Open access:

Doğuş Şimşek, 'Am I Less British?': Racism, Belonging, and the Children of Refugees and Immigrants in North London, UCL Press, Feb. 2024

Jesse Spohnholz & Mirjam van Veen, Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620: A Reformation of Refugees, Univ. of Rochester Press, Feb. 2024

David de Boer, The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2023

Rebecca Bryant, Amal Abdulla, Maissam Nimer & Ayşen Üstübici, Lives in Limbo: Syrian Youth in Turkey, Berghahn Books, July 2024

Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Anastasia Christou, Silke Meyer, Marie Johanna Karner & Anton Jakob Escher, eds., Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community, Routledge, Nov. 2023

- Note: Four chapters are open access.

Lara Momesso & Polina Ivanova, eds., Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2024 

Carolina Pinto Baleisan, ed., Saberes en movimiento: Contribuciones desde la academia y la sociedad civil a los estudios sobre migraciones en Chile, Ariadna Ediciones, Feb. 2024

New Books: June 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal text:

Richard A. Boswell, Essentials of Immigration Law, 6th ed. (American Immigration Lawyers' Assoc., May 2024) 

Open access:

Rebecca Yeo, Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance, Routledge, June 2024 

Giulia Raimondo, The European Integrated Border Management: Frontex, Human Rights, and International Responsibility, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2024

Anna Triandafyllidou, Amin Moghadam, Melissa Kelly & Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, eds., Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances, Springer, June 2024

Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Safe Access to Asylum in Europe: Normative Assessment of Safe Pathways to Protection in the Legal Context of the European Union, Nomos, May 2024

New Books: May 2022

May 2022:

Francesca Rosignoli, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees, Routledge, May 2022 

Do Kyun David Kim, Gary L. Kreps, eds., Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees: Cases, Theories, and Strategies, Routledge, May 2022 

Marta Padovan-Özdemir & Trine Øland, Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees: Troubled by Difference, Docility and Dignity, Routledge, May 2022 

Victoria Hudson & Lucian N. Leustean, eds., Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Amsterdam Univ. Press, May 2022

Jonathan Darling, Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum, Pluto Press, May 2022

- Focuses on the UK.

Helen T. Boursier, Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum, Lexington Books, May 2022 

- Focuses on the US.

April 2022:

Ernesto U. Savona, Rob T. Guerette & Alberto Aziani, eds., The Evolution of Illicit Flows: Displacement and Convergence among Transnational Crime, Springer, April 2022

Legal texts:

Martijn Stronks, Grasping Legal Time: Temporality and European Migration Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022

Sheona York, The Impact of UK Immigration Law: Declining Standards of Public Administration, Legal Probity and Democratic Accountability, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2022

Colin Yeo, Refugee Law, Bristol Univ. Press, April 2022

- Note: The first three chapters can be read for free. More details about the book provided in this blog post.

Open access:

Susanne U. Schultz, "Failed" Migratory Adventures? Malian Men Facing Conditions Post Deportation in Southern Mali, transcript Verlag, April 2022

Lucía Ramírez Bolívar & Jessica Corredor Villamil , eds., Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South, Dejusticia, April 2022 

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, A Network Society Communicative Model for Optimising the Refugee Status Determination System, Editora da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2022

New Book Titles: October 2020 - Pt. 2

Part 1 of this post is available here.

September 2020:

Joanne Laycock & Francesca Piana, eds., Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

Robert S. Meyers, Conducting Psychological Assessments for U.S. Immigration Cases, Springer, Sept. 2020

Mogens Chrom Jacobsen, Emnet Berhanu Gebre & Drago Župarić-Iljić, eds., Cosmopolitanism, Migration and Universal Human Rights, Springer, Sept. 2020

Darren Palmer, Garry Coventry, Glenn Dawes & Stephen Moston, Crime, Criminalization and Refugees: The Case of Sudanese Australian, Springer, Sept. 2020

Kelly McKowen & John Borneman, eds., Digesting Difference: Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Angelika Groterath, Viviana Langher & Georgia Marinelli , eds., Flight and Migration from Africa to Europe: Contributions of Psychology and Social Work, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2020

Yvan Yenda Ilunga, Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Pablo Bose, Refugees in New Destinations and Small Cities: Resettlement in Vermont, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Open access:

Antonio De Lauri, ed., Humanitarianism: Keywords, Brill, Sept. 2020

Doug Specht, ed., Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping, Univ. of London Press, Sept. 2020

Laura Zanfrini, ed., Migrants and Religion: Paths, Issues, and Lenses - A Multidisciplinary and Multi-Sited Study on the Role of Religious Belongings in Migratory and Integration Processes, Brill, Sept. 2020

New Books: March 2020 - Pt. 2 (Legal texts)

Legal texts:

Alexander Sungurov, Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, María Cruz Llamazares Calzadilla & Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, eds.,  Current Issues on Human Rights, Dykinson, 2020

Gilad Ben-Nun, The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians: The History of International Humanitarian Law, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2020

Justine N Stefanelli, Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU: From Principles to Practice, Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States, UBC Press, Feb. 2020

Mark Klaassen, Stephanie Rap, Peter Rodrigues & Ton Liefaard, eds., Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law, Intersentia, Jan. 2020

New Books: More Dec. 2019

See below for additional titles published in Dec. 2019.

December 2019:

Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig & Daragh Murray, eds., Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability, Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2019

Michael Fingerle & Rüdiger Wink, eds., Forced Migration and Resilience: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Results, Springer, Dec. 2019

Joël Glasman, Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Masako Yonekawa, Post-Genocide Rwandan Refugees - Why They Refuse to Return ‘Home’: Myths and Realities, Springer, Dec. 2019

Juline Beaujouan & Amjed Rasheed, eds., Syrian Crisis, Syrian Refugees: Voices from Jordan and Lebanon, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2019

Legal texts:

Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, Carolina Academic Press, Dec. 2019

Pauline Maillet, Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-Citizens from Rights through Extra-Territoriality at Home, Brill, Dec. 2019

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: January 2019 - Pt. 2 (Legal Texts)

New legal texts:

Stellina Jolly & Nafees Ahmad, Climate Refugees in South Asia: Protection under International Legal Standards and State Practices in South Asia, Springer, Dec. 2018

Sergio Carrera, Arie Pieter Leonhard den Hertog, Marion Panizzon & Dora Kostakopoulou, eds., EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018

Gabriel Cardona-Fox, Exile within Borders: A Global Look at Commitment to the International Regime to Protect Internally Displaced Persons, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018

Stephen H. Legomsky & David B. Thronson, Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, 7th ed., Foundation Press, 2019

Jessica Schultz, The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty Basis and Scope of Application under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018

Vladislava Stoyanova & Eleni Karageorgiou, eds., The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe during and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2018