New Books: July 2025 - Pt. 1

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

July 2025:

Paolo Novak, Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025

Thomas A. Krainz, A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West, July 2025, Univ. of Nebraska Press, July 2025

S. Irudaya Rajan, ed., Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025 

Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter & Thabani Mutambasere, Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025

Susanne Berliner, Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany, Routledge, July 2025

William Mude & Sally Baker, Possibilities of Educational Pathways to Refugee Resettlement: A Personal Journey from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Australia, Lived Places Publishing, July 2025

June 2025:

Livio Amigoni, Ethnography on the Underground Migratory Routes from Sudan to the North: Sombok Is an Idea and Ideas Never Die, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2025

Didier Fassin & Anne-Claire Defossez, Exile: Chronicle of the Border, Polity Books, June 2025

Frank Stahnisch, Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989, McGill-Queen's University Press, June 2025

Dale Dominey-Howes, Ashleigh Rushton, William Leonard, Marcilyn Cianfarani, Lisa Overton & Haorui Wu, eds., Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises, Springer, June 2025

New Books: May 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

April 2025:

Umut Ozkaleli, De-essentializing Refugees: Perceptions, Experiences, and Becoming of Syrians in Türkiye, Springer, April 2025

Alfred Babo & Sayed Hassan Akhlaq, eds., Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Reflections on the Paradox of Inclusion and Exclusion, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2025 

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Alexander Kustov, In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular, Columbia Univ. Press, April 2025

Friedemann Yi-Neumann, A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception: Crafting Refuge, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2025 

- Focuses on Germany.

Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober & Robert A. McLeman, Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2025 

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna Tufa & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

Open access:

Khadija Abbasi, Reza Hussaini, Atefeh Kazemi & Abdullah Mohammadi, Displacement of the Hazara People of Afghanistan: Complex Histories, Lived Places Publishing, April 2025

Alice Panepinto, Bana Abu Zuluf, Ahmad Amara, Brendan Ciarán Browne, Munir Nuseibah & Triestino Mariniello, eds., Ending Impunity for International Law Violations: Palestinian Bedouins and the Risk of Forced Displacement, Hart Publishing, March 2025

Masayuki Tadokoro, The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders, Springer, Feb. 2025

Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda & Sujata Ramachandran, eds., New Directions in South-South Migration, Springer, April 2025

New Books: April 2025

April 2025:

Nadia El-Shaarawi, Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War, Univ. of California Press, April 2025 

Zeynep Kilicoglu, Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures, Routledge, April 2025

Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge & Evan Smith, eds., Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949, Brill, April 2025

Basma El Zein & Ahmed Al Jarwan, eds., Fostering Refugee Resilience: Global Perspectives on Integration, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Emerald Publishing, April 2025

Rachel Humphris, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, Stanford Univ. Press, April 2025

Michael Omondi Owiso, Fekadu Adugna & Abdi Mohamud Hersi, eds., Migration and Displacement in the IGAD Region: Human Mobility in the Context of COVID-19, Springer, April 2025

* Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko & Anindita Ghoshal, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Daniel Briggs, Sheltering Strangers: Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees, Policy Press, April 2025

March 2025:

Sara Mazzei, Arab-Islamic Education Systems in the Experience of Migrants and Refugees in Europe: An Historical and Cultural Analysis Focused on Morocco, Syria, Italy, Germany and Sweden, Springer, March 2025 

Julie Matthews & Quentin Maire, eds., A Modern Guide to Refugee Education: Comparative Perspectives and Innovative Practices, Edward Elgar, March 2025 

Matthew Davis, Third Sector Organisations, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Support During Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025 

Jennifer Moore, Women’s Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2025 

Open access:

Rachel Benchekroun, Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-migration in the UK, UCL Press, March 2025

*UPDATED

New Books: April 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal text:

Tetsu Sakurai & Mauro Zamboni, eds., Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist?, Routledge, March 2023

Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins, Crimmigration under International Protection: Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality, Routledge, March 2023

Open access:

Elżbieta M. Goździak & Izabella Main, eds., Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements, Springer, March 2023

Cristiane Feldmann Dutra, Daniel Braga Nascimento & Sandra Regina Martini, eds., Os Desafios dos Direitos Humanos Durante e na pós Pandemia no Mundo Globalizado (Human Rights Challenges during and after the Pandemic), Editora Fi, 2023

- Includes four English- and three Portuguese-language chapters that focus on migrants and refugees.

Sergio Carrera & Meltem Ineli-Ciger, eds., EU Responses to the Large-scale Refugee Displacement from Ukraine: An Analysis on the Temporary Protection Directive and Its Implications for the Future EU Asylum Policy, European Univ. Institute, 2023

Marja Tiilikainen, Johanna Hiitola, Abdirashid A. Ismail & Jaana Palander, eds., Forced Migration and Separated Families: Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies, Springer, March 2023

Paolo Boccagni & Sara Bonfanti, eds., Migration and Domestic Space: Ethnographies of Home in the Making, Springer, 2023

Sriprapha Petcharamesree & Mark P. Capaldi, eds., Migration in Southeast Asia: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, March 2023

Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, N. Ela Gökalp-Aras, Ayhan Kaya & Susan Beth Rottmann, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration, Springer, March 2023

New Books: February 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

January 2022:

Gustavo Barbosa, The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon, Syracuse Univ. Press, Jan. 2022

Stefania Panebianco, ed., Border Crises and Human Mobility in the Mediterranean Global South: Challenges to Expanding Borders, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2022 

Maria do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Rebecca Gutwald, Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo & Janestic Twikirize, eds., The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development: Global Perspectives, Springer, Jan. 2022 

- Note: A number of chapters focus on migrants and/or refugees.

Diotima Chattoraj, Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants: The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War, Springer, Jan. 2022 

- Note: An earlier edition of this book was retracted.

Eva Kassoti & Narin Idriz, eds., The Informalisation of the EU's External Action in the Field of Migration and Asylum, Springer, Jan. 2022

Tony Johnstone Young, Sara Ganassin, Stefanie Schneider, Alina Schartner & Steve Walsh, Intercultural Challenges for the Reintegration of Displaced Professionals: A Response to the Language Learning Needs of Refugees in Europe, Routledge, Jan. 2022

Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay, ed., Internal Migration within South Asia: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Springer, Jan. 2022

Legal text:

James C. Simeon, ed., Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Open access:

Nicholas R. Micinski, Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union, Univ. of Michigan Press, Jan. 2022

Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis & Martin Bak Jørgensen, eds., Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for (Big) Data?, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2021

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, ed., Revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention: Exploring Global Perspectives, Observer Research Foundation & Global Policy Journal, 2022

New Books: January 2022

January 2022:

James J. Phillips, Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration, Lexington Books, Jan. 2022

Gül İnanç & Themba Lewis, eds., Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, Jan. 2022

Russell King & Katie Kuschminder, eds., Handbook of Return Migration, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2022

Mirjam Twigt, Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2022

Kazunari Sakai & Noemi Lanna, eds., Migration Governance in Asia: A Multi-level Analysis, Routledge, Jan. 2022

Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook & Prem Kumar Rajaram, eds., Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2022

Vanja Kovacic, Reconstructing Lives: Victims of War in the Middle East and Médecins Sans Frontières, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2022

Jordi Tejel & Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, eds., Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946, Edinburgh Univ. Press, Jan. 2022

Kudret Bülbül, Md. Nazmul Islam & Md. Sajid Khan, eds., Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2022

Hugo Slim, Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century, Hurst Publishers, Jan. 2022

Saniye Dedeoglu, Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey: Work, Precarity, Survival, I.B. Tauris, Jan. 2022

December 2021:

Subhasri Ghosh, ed., The 1947 Partition in The East: Trends and Trajectories, Routledge, Dec. 2021

James Souter, Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement, Dec. 2021

Delphine Mercier, Víctor Zúñiga, Kamel Doraï, Mustapha El Miri & Michel Peraldi, eds., Experiencing Ruptures in Migration: The Ordinary and Unexpected Journeys of Global Migrants, Transnational Press London, Dec. 2021

Theodoros Fouskas, ed., Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: An International Handbook on Migration and Refugee Studies, Management Policies and Governance, European Public Law Organization, Dec. 2021

Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Somayeh Chitchian & Maja Momić, Inhabiting Displacement: Architecture and Authorship, Birkhäuser, Dec. 2021

Suvendrini Perera & Joseph Pugliese, eds., Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence, Routledge, Dec. 2021

- Part III focuses on refugees.

Davide Rodogno, Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2021

Pinar Gözen Ercan, ed., The Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On: Rhetoric and Implementation, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2021

Open access:

Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh & Hilde Heynen, eds., Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, Leuven Univ. Press, Dec. 2021

Anna Triandafyllidou. ed., Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception, Springer, Dec. 2021

Soner Barthoma & Andreas Onver Cetrez, eds., RESPONDing to Migration: A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021 

Mark Gibney, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Markus Krajewski & Wouter Vandenhole, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, Routledge, Dec. 2021