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: January 2025

January 2025:

Farhana Afrin Rahman, After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps, Cambridge Univ Press, Jan. 2025

Janet Mancini Billson, Refugee Pathways to Peace: Escaping the Chaos of War, Lexington Books, Jan. 2025

- Focuses on resettlement to Canada.

Debórah Dwork, Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis, W.W. Norton, Jan. 2025

Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo & Christoph Sperfeldt, eds., Statelessness in Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

December 2024:

Amelie Harbisch, Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible: Practices of the Subject, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Hafize Zehra Kavak, Understanding Humanitarian Diplomacy: Principles and Practice, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Legal texts:

Petrice R. Flowers, Refugee Policies in East Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

Patricia Rushton, Sovereignty, Migration and the Law: The Exclusion of Non-Citizens, Routledge, Dec. 2024

Open access:

Ragini Shah, Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2024

Jakub Bijak, ed., From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2024

Francesca Piana, Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War, Leiden University Press, Dec. 2024

New Books: October 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

September 2024:

Isabelle Desportes, Alice Corbet & Ayesha Siddiqi, eds., Depoliticising Humanitarian Action: Paradigms, Dilemmas, Resistance, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Bulbul Siddiqi, ed., Displacement and Refugee Issues in South Asia: Uncovering the Contested Realities, Lexington Books, Sept. 2024

Gabriele Abbondanza, The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia, Routledge, Sept. 2024

AKM Ahsan Ullah, ed., Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia, Springer, Sept. 2024 

- Note: This is a "living reference work" so it will continue to be updated.

Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston & Mark Falcous, eds., Handbook on Sport and Migration, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024 

Federico Alagna, Migrant Smuggling and the Criminalisation of Migration in the EU: Policies and Practices from Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2024

Mónica Reyes, Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Kunle Musbaudeen Oparinde & Rodwell Makombe, Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Identity, Emerald Publishing, Sept. 2024 

New Books: March 2023 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in March & February 2023, while part 2 lists new open access texts.

March 2023:

Antonia-Maria Sarantaki, Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe, Routledge, March 2023

Kara E. Dempsey & Orhon Myadar, eds., Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime, Routledge, March 2023 

Carlos Arcila Calderón  & Andreas Veglis, eds., Migrants and Refugees in Southern Europe beyond the News Stories: Photographs, Hate, and Journalists' Perceptions, Lexington Books, March 2023

Ilse van Liempt, Joris Schapendonk & Amalia Campos-Delgado, eds., Research Handbook on Irregular Migration, Edward Elgar, March 2023

Katharyne Mitchell & Polly Pallister-Wilkins, eds., The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism, Routledge, March 2023

Maya Pagni Barak, The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial, NYU Press, March 2023

- Focuses on the US.

Luis H. Zayas, Through Iceboxes and Kennels: How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2023

- Focuses on the US.

Melissa Gatter, Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency, American Univ. in Cairo Press, March 2023

February 2023:

Silvia Rodriguez Vega, Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children, NYU Press, Feb. 2023

- Focuses on the US.

Pardeep Singh, Bendangwapang Ao & Anamika Yadav, eds., Global Climate Change and Environmental Refugees: Nature, Framework and Legality, Springer, Feb. 2023

Yasmine Shamma, Suzan Ilcan, Vicki Squire & Helen Underhill, eds., Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away, Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2023

Mo Hamza, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh, Chamindi Malalgoda, Chathuranganee Jayakody & Anuradha Senanayake, eds., Rebuilding Communities After Displacement: Sustainable and Resilience Approaches, Springer, Feb. 2023

New Books: May 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

April 2021:

Ana Ndumu, ed., Borders and Belonging: Critical Examinations of Library Approaches toward Immigrants, Library Juice Press, April 2021

Ioana Vrăbiescu, Deporting Europeans: The Racialized Mobility of Romanians in France, Lexington Books, April 2021 

Chin-Peng Chu & Sang-Chul Park, eds., Immigration Policy and Crisis in the Regional Context: Asian and European Experiences, Springer, April 2021

Catherine Dauvergne, ed., Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, May 2021 

Tómas Joensen & Ian Taylor, eds., Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: Politics and Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Open access:

Veronica Federico & Simone Baglioni, eds., Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets: A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers, Springer, May 2021

Ephraim Pörtner, Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve, transcript Verlag, May 2021

- Note: The complete text will be made available as of 27 May 2021.

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe: Debating Solidarity Across Borders, Routledge, April 2021 

Jussi S. Jauhiainen & Miriam Tedeschi, Undocumented Migrants and Their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland, Springer, May 2021 

Legal text:

Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Philip G. Schrag, The End of Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, May 2021

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 1

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

April 2021:

Amanda C. Demmer, After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

James Souter, Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Gabriele Proglio, Camilla Hawthorne, Ida Danewid, P. Khalil Saucier, Giuseppe Grimaldi, Angelica Pesarini, Timothy Raeymaekers, Giulia Grechi & Vivian Gerrand, eds., The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Parthiban Muniandy, Ghost Lives of the Pendatang: Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Urban Malaysia, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

- "[A]n ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia."

Emma Carmel, Katharina Lenner & Regine Paul, eds., Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, April 2021

Alistair D. B. Cook & Lina Gong, eds., Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice, Springer, April 2021

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas, eds., Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, Routledge, April 2021 

Elżbieta Goździak, International Migration: A Quick Immersion, Tibidabo Publishing, April 2021

Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer & Paul Weindling, eds., Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2021

Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities, Routledge, April 2021

Romola Adeola, ed., National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: Beyond the Rhetoric, Springer, April 2021

Cristina Astier & Ander Errasti, eds., Refugees' Europe: Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2021

Becky Taylor, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe, Routledge, April 2021

Nicholas R. Micinski, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, April 2021

New Books: August 2020

August 2020:

Rachel Ida Buff & Alejandra Oliva (transl.), A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de Asilo: Palabras para Personas en Movimiento, Fordham Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Francesca Ippolito, Gianluca Borzoni &  Federico Casolari, eds., Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean: Prospects for Migration Issues, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aug. 2020

Emine Fidan Elcioglu, ed., Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border, UC Press, Aug. 2020

Vicki Squire, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, Univ. of California Press, Aug. 2020

Honey Oberoi Vahali, Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees, 2nd ed., Routledge, Aug. 2020

Yoshikazu Shiobara, et al., eds., Migration Policies in Asia, 5 vols., SAGE Publishing, Aug. 2020

Leah Hamilton, Luisa Veronis & Margaret Walton-Roberts, eds., A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada,  McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Aug. 2020

Anindita Ghoshal, Refugees, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India, Routledge, Routledge, Aug. 2020

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Sigrun Marie Moss & Özden Melis Uluğ, eds., Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities, Springer, Aug. 2020

Paolo Boccagni, Luis Eduardo PéRez Murcia & Milena Belloni, Thinking Home on the Move: A Conversation Across Disciplines, Emerald Publishing, Aug. 2020

July 2020: 

Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, ed., Causes and Consequences of Migrant Criminalization, Springer, July 2020

Masako Yonekawa & Akiko Sugiki, eds., Repatriation, Insecurity, and Peace: A Case Study of Rwandan Refugees, Springer, July 2020

Ana Vila-Freyer & Mehmet Gökay Özerim, eds., Young Migrants: Vulnerabilities, Boundaries, Protection and Integration, Transnational Press, July 2020

Legal texts:

Stian Øby Johansen, The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2020
- See esp. Chapter 5, "Case study: UNHCR-administered refugee camps."

Romit Bhandari, Human Rights and the Revision of Refugee Law, Routledge, Aug. 2020

James C. Simeon, ed., Terrorism and Asylum, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020

Giovanni Sciaccaluga, International Law and the Protection of 'Climate Refugees', Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020

Open access:

Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis & Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2020

Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk & Jane O. Newman, eds., Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing, transcript De Gruyter , Aug. 2020

New Books: December 2019 - Pt. 1

See below for new books due out in December. In Part 2 of this post, you will find references to books published in October and November 2019, as well as several new Open Access texts.

December 2019:

Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles & Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, 6th ed., Guilford Press, Dec. 2019

Katja Franko, The Crimmigrant Other: Migration and Penal Power, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Veronica Fynn Bruey & Steven W. Bender, eds., Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys across the Globe, Lexington Books, Dec. 2019

Maura Sellars, Educating Students with Refugee and Asylum Seeker Experiences: A Commitment to Humanity, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Dec. 2019

Owen Grafham, ed., Energy Access and Forced Migration, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Maya Goodfellow, Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, Verso Books, Dec. 2019

Lucy Mayblin, Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence, Routledge, Dec. 2019

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, The New Press, Dec. 2019

Marella Hoffman, Practicing Oral History among Refugees and Host Communities, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Anna Lise Purkey, Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge & Agnes Woolley, eds., Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities, Edinburgh Univ. Press, Dec. 2019

Robin Cohen & Nicholas Van Hear, Refugia: Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Jane Anna Gordon, Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement, Routledge, Dec. 2019

Laurel Leff, Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe, Yale Univ. Press, Dec. 2019

New Books: September 2018

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

September 2018:

Uditi Sen, Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2018

Seyla Benhabib, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, Princeton University Press, Sept. 2018

ChorSwang Ngin, Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia, Rowman & Littlefield, Sept. 2018

Mary Crock & Lenni B. Benson, eds., Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2018

Enakshi Sengupta & Patrick Blessinger, eds., Refugee Education: Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society, Emerald Insight, Sept. 2018

Giovanna Dell’Orto & Irmgard Wetzstein, eds., Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in Europe, Routledge, Sept. 2018

Tiziana Caponio, Peter Scholten & Ricard Zapata-Barrero, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities, Routledge, Sept. 2018

Melvin Delgado, Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Oxford University Press, Sept. 2018

Peter H. Koehn, Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries, Routledge, Sept. 2018

August 2018:

Adèle Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, eds., Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2018

Jacqueline Bhabha, Jyothi Kanics & Daniel Senovilla Hernández, eds., Research Handbook on Child Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aug. 2018

Ali Asgary, ed., Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees, Springer, Aug. 2018

July 2018:

Andreas E. Feldmann, Xóchitl Bada, Stephanie Schütze, eds., New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2018