New Books: January 2026 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in January 2026, while Part 2 lists additional December 2025 titles, as well as new reference, legal and open access texts.

January 2026:

Ofer Gazit, Hamutal Sadan & Sarah Hankins, eds., Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making, Routledge, Jan. 2026 

Aysuhan Tuba Saral & Margarita Pavlova, Education for Refugees and Sustainable Green Urban Development: Building Skills through Non-formal Learning, Springer, Jan. 2026

Duncan McLean, Françoise Duroch & Amy Mavor, eds., Humanitarian Myths and Hubris: A Critical Self-Portrait from Médecins Sans Frontières, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Irène Herrmann, Humanitarianism and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1859 to 1989, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Daniel Rauhut & Marika Gruber, eds., Refugee Housing in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Dimensional Governance, Edward Elgar, Jan. 2026

Angela Dew, Refugee Journeys to Australia: Safety, Security, and Support for People with Disabilities from Syria and Iraq, Bloomsbury Academic, Jan. 2026

Georgina Colby & Jane Freedman, eds., Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony, Liverpool Univ. Press, Jan. 2026

Kerstin von Brömssen & Live Stretmo, eds., Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations: Multidisciplinary Understandings and Key Concepts, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2026

Ainoa Cabada, The UN Charter, the Refugee Convention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: Towards a Preventative Protection Regime, Routledge, Jan. 2026

Rebecca Buxton & Samuel Ritholtz, The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge, Univ. of California Press, Jan. 2026

New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Ruth Rubio Marín, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Benedita Menezes Queiroz & Fulvia Staiano, eds., Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025

Lena Riemer, The Prohibition of Collective Expulsion: Protecting against Arbitrary Expulsion in Human Rights Treaty Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Elizabeth Mavropoulou, Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

 Júlia Zomignani Barboza, Undesirable but Unreturnable Migrants: The Challenges of Dealing with Criminal Migrants in Need of Protection - A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Belgium and Canada, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Reference book:

Yen Le Espiritu, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, 1st ed., SAGE Publications, Sept. 2025

Open access:

Iva Dodevska, Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy, Springer, Aug. 2025

Susan Bibler Coutin, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, Univ. of California, Press, Aug. 2025

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

Julija Sardelić, Refugee Protection Crises and Transit Europe: Immediate Responses, Selective Memory, and the Self-Serving Politics of Diversity, Springer, Aug. 2025

Regina Polak, Aybiçe Tosun & Ansgar Jödicke, eds., Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Brill/Schoningh, Aug. 2025

Anas Ansar, Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia, De Gruyter, Aug. 2025

Harald Bauder & Mary Boatemaa Setrana, eds., Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection, 2 vols., Springer, Aug. 2025

- Vol. 1: Frontiers of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

- Vol. 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality

New Books: August 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Juan Ruiz Ramos, The Freedom of Movement of Asylum Seekers within the State: Scope and Safeguards under International Law, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2025

Maja Grundler, Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Elspeth Guild, Valsamis Mitsilegas & Niovi Vavoula, Lawless Borders: The Rule of Law Deficit in European Immigration Control, Aug. 2025

Dáire McCormack-George, Regulating Migrant Integration in Europe: The Case of Skills, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2025

Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore, Richard A. Boswell & Lindsay M. Harris, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, 6th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Aug. 2025

Open access:

Brian Callan, Pearson Nkhoma & Naomi Thompson, eds., Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025

Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher & Alison Phipps, eds., A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, Multilingual Matters, Aug. 2025

Sergio Carrera and Davide Colombi, Irregularising Human Mobility: EU Migration Policies and the European Commission’s Role, Springer, Dec. 2024

New Books: November 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Open access:

Luc Leboeuf, Cathrine Brun, Hilde Lidén, Sabrina Marchetti, Delphine Nakache & Sylvie Sarolea, eds., Between Protection and Harm: Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies, Springer, Oct. 2024

Natalie Brinham, Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Lorenzo Guadagno & Lisette R. Robles, eds., Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Matthew Zagor, ed., From Borders to Pathways: Innovations and Regressions in the Movement of People into Europe, ANU Press, Sept. 2024

Sergio Carrera Nunez, Eleni Karageorgiou, Gamze Ovacik & Nikolas Feith Tan, eds., Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees, Springer, Dec. 2024

Chiara Berneri, Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe, Hart Publishing, Oct. 2024

David de Boer & Geert H. Janssen, eds., Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe, Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2024

New Books: September 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Open access:

Stellina Jolly, Nafees Ahmad & Matthew Scott, eds., Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Approaches, Springer, Aug. 2024 

Christina R. Clark-Kazak, Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement, McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2024

Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards, Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2024

Nick Gill, Nicole Hoellerer, Jessica Hambly & Daniel Fisher, Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe, Aug. 2024

Kiran Banerjee & Damian Smith, eds., Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2024

Miriam Cullen & Matthew Scott, eds., Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility, Routledge, June 2024

Ola G. El-Taliawi, The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South, McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2024

- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

Charles Martin-Shields, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks, McGill-Queen's University Press, March 2024

New Books: July 2023 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in July 2023 while part 2 lists new June 2023 and open access titles.

July 2023:

Jaz O'Hara, Asylum Speakers: Stories of Migration from the Humans Behind the Headlines, DK, July 2023 

Viktoriya Sereda, Displacement in War-Torn Ukraine: State, Displacement and Belonging, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2023

Karen Culcasi, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, Univ. of Chicago Press, July 2023

Katarzyna Nowak, Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, July 2023

Anne Irfan, Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System, Columbia Univ. Press, July 2023

Eleonora Milazzo, Refugee Protection and Solidarity: The Duties of EU Member States, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2023

AKM Ahsan Ullah & Diotima Chattoraj, The Unheard Stories of the Rohingyas: Ethnicity, Diversity and Media, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2023

Legal text:

Walter Kälin, Internal Displacement and the Law, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2023

New Books: December 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

November 2022:

Armelle Gouritin, Climate Displacement in Mexico: Towards Vulnerable Population Protection, Nov. 2022

Phillip Cole, Global Displacement in the Twenty-first Century: Towards an Ethical Framework, Edinburgh University Press, Nov. 2022

Kevin Ostoyich & Yun Xia, eds., The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2022

Nancy J. Murakami & Mashura Akilova, eds., Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons, Springer, Nov. 2022

Irina Mützelburg, Transferring Asylum Norms to EU Neighbours: Multi-Scalar Policies and Practices in Ukraine, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2022

Legal text:

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2022

Open access:

Aylin Yildiz Noorda, Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move: Providing Protection under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2022

Barbara von Rütte, The Human Right to Citizenship: Situating the Right to Citizenship within International and Regional Human Rights Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2022

Irina Isaakyan, Anna Triandafyllidou & Simone Baglioni, eds., Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand - A Biographical Perspective, Springer, Nov. 2022

Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker & Christoph Reinprecht, eds., Internment Refugee Camps: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, transcript Verlag, Nov. 2022

Seyda Subasi Singh, Olja Jovanović Milanović & Michelle Proyer, eds., Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Nov. 2022

New Books: November 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

October 2022:

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil: A Case Study, Cambridge Scholars, Oct. 2022

Agnieszka Cholewińska-Nielsen, Evolving Humanitarianism: The Work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Peter Lang, Oct. 2022

Jane Freedman, Nina Sahraoui & Evangelia Tastsoglou, eds., Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2022

Oliver Razum, Angus Dawson, Lisa Eckenwiler & Verina Wild, eds., Refugee Camps in Europe and Australia: An Interdisciplinary Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2022

Legal text:

Stephen Meili, The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Nov. 2022

Open access:

Amy North & Elaine Chase, eds., Education, Migration and Development: Critical Perspectives in a Moving World, Bloomsbury, Sept. 2022

Michiel de Haas & Ewout Frankema, eds., Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century, Routledge, April 2022

New Books: June 2022

June 2022:

Aileen Crowe, Acts of Cruelty: Australia’s Immigration Laws and Experiences of People Seeking Protection after Arriving by Plane, Palaver, June 2022

Adam Saltsman, Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier, Syracuse Univ. Press, June 2022

Susan Hartman, City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town, Beacon Press, June 2022

Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria Georgiou, The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, NYU Press, June 2022

Jessica Stroja, Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes, Routledge, June 2022

- Focuses on Australia.

Tamar Mayer & Trinh Tran, eds., Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power, Routledge, June 2022

Akira Kitade, Emerging Heroes: WWII-Era Diplomats, Jewish Refugees, and Escape to Japan, Academic Studies Press, June 2022

Samuel Jarvis, The Limits of Common Humanity: Motivating the Responsibility to Protect in a Changing Global Order, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2022

May 2022:

Andrew Leon Hanna, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022

- Focuses on  Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan.

Nicole Braida, Migrating Through the Web: Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile, transcript Verlag, May 2022

Christoph Kalter, Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022 

Melissa Phillips & Louise Olliff, eds., Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2022

Open access:

Agustín Escobar Latapí & Claudia Masferrer, eds., Migration Between Mexico and the United States: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, May 2022

Pragna Rugunanan & Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, eds., Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader, Springer, May 2022

New Books: March 2022 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Marie-Claire Foblets & Jean-Yves Carlier, eds., Law and Migration in a Changing World, Springer, March 2022

Kate Ogg, Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2022

Open access:

Maciej Stępka, Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse: The "Migration Crisis" and the EU, Springer, Feb. 2022

Leonardo Schiocchet, Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, transcript Verlag, March 2022

- Note: The complete text will become available as of 27 March 2022.

Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Andrea Lauser, Antonie Fuhse & Peter J. Bräunlein, eds., Material Culture and (Forced) Migration: Materializing the Transient, UCL Press, Feb. 2022

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

Ninette Kelley, People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge, UNHCR & Oxford Univ. Press, 2022

Nowrin Tabassum, The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge: Labelling Climate Change-induced Uprooted People, Routledge, March 2022

- Note: The complete text will become available as of 4 March 2022.

Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu Tonak, eds., Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2022

New Books: February 2022 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in February 2022, while part 2 lists new legal and open access titles.

February 2022:

Julio Montanez, Amy Donley & Amy Reckdenwald, Between Systems and Violence: State-Level Policy Targeting Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Lives, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Tiziana Caponio & Irene Ponzo, eds., Coping with Migrants and Refugees: Multilevel Governance Across the EU, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Katarzyna Grabska & Christina R. Clark-Kazak, eds., Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2022

Carolin Funke, Durable Solutions: Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2022 

Emily Pelley, Finding Safe Harbour: Supporting the Integration of Refugee Youth, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2022

Yasmin Ibrahim, Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Eric Einhorn, Sherrill Harbison & Markus Huss, eds., Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Feb. 2022

Sébastien Moretti, The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia: A Legal Fiction?, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Maria D. Lombard, ed., Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context, Lexington Books, Feb. 2022

Magdalena Kmak & Heta Björklund, eds., Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe's Past and Present, Routledge, Feb. 2022

Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu Tonak, eds., Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2022

Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Unaccompanied: The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border, NYU Press, Feb. 2022 

William Walters, Charles Heller & Lorenzo Pezzani, eds., Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 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

New Books: August 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in August 2021 and new legal and open access texts, while part 2 lists new books published in July 2021 

August 2021:

Scott Imig, Maura Sellars, John Fischetti, Creating Spaces of Wellbeing and Belonging for Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Students: Skills and Strategies for School Leaders, Routledge, Aug. 2021

Susanne Korbel & Philipp Strobl, eds., Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Meditations Through Migrations, Routledge, Aug. 2021

Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Sarah Nell-Müller & Roland Happ, eds., Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education: Opening Universities for Refugees, Springer, Aug. 2021

Leanne Weber & Claudia Tazreiter, eds., Handbook of Migration and Global Justice, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2021

Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza & Gabriela Mezzanotti, eds., Latin America and Refugee Protection: Regimes, Logics and Challenges, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2021

Lydia Morris, The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration: Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain, ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2021

Samantha Seeley, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & Univ. of North Carolina Press, Aug. 2021

Vinh Nguyen & Thy Phu, eds., Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, Univ. of Toronto Press, Aug. 2021

Montse Feu & Amanda Venta, eds., Serving Refugee Children: Listening to Stories of Detention in the USA, Peter Lang, Aug. 2021

Joanna Lewis, Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict, Hurst Publishers, Aug. 2021

Legal text:

David Moya & Georgios Milios, eds., Aliens Before the European Court of Human Rights: Ensuring Minimum Standards of Human Rights Protection, Brill, June 2021

Open access:

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée & Kristian Bjørkdahl, eds., Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, July 2021

New Books: July 2021

New titles published in June & July 2021 are listed below, along with new legal and open access texts.

July 2021:

Robert F Barsky, Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us about People Fleeing from Persecution, Hart Publishing, July 2021 

Ulrike Krause, Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Ronit Lentin & Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex, Rowman & Littlefield, July 2021

Diego Fernandez Otegui & Daryl Yoder-Bontrager, eds., The Humanitarian Machine: Reflections from Practice, Routledge, July 2021

Lim Il & Adam Zulawnik, Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho, Routledge, July 2021

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti & Jayne Caudwell, eds., Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems, Routledge, July 2021

Thomas Ricento, Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social and Cultural Capital, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2021

Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner & Bernhard Streitwieser, eds., Refugees in Higher Education: Questioning the Notion of Integration, Springer, July 2021

Mausumi Kar, Jayita Mukhopadhyay & Manisha Deb Sarkar, eds., South Asia and Climate Change: Unravelling the Conundrum, Routledge, July 2021

- Note: Part II focuses on "Climate Change Induced Human Migration: Concerns for Environmental Refugees."

Tobin Hansen & María Engracia Robles Robles, eds., Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, July 2021

June 2021:

Juliano Fiori, Fernando Espada, Andrea Rigo, Bertrand Taithe & Rafia Zakaria, Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, Hurst, June 2021

Magdalena Smieszek, The Evolving Psyche of Law in Europe: The Psychology of Human Rights and Asylum Frameworks, Springer, June 2021 

Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso, eds., Handbook of Citizenship and Migration, Edward Elgar, June 2021 

Natalie Khazaal & Núria Almiron, Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering, Brill, June 2021 

Roger Bromley, Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Springer, June 2021 

Aristotle Tziampiris & Foteini Asderaki, eds., The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed: Emerging Issues and New Actors, Springer, June 2021

- Note: Includes four chapters on refugee and migration issues.

Becky Taylor, Karen Akoka, Marcel Berlinghoff & Shira Havkin, eds., When Boat People were Resettled, 1975–1983: A Comparative History of European and Israeli Responses to the South-East Asian Refugee Crisis, Springer, June 2021

- Note: The chapter on Vietnamese refugees in Britain is open access.

Legal texts:

Janna Wessels, The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Open access:

Jasmin Lilian Diab, ed., Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights, E-International Relations, 2021

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021, transcript Verlag, June 2021

- The theme of this edition is "Beyond Borders."

Marcia C. Inhorn & Lucia Volk, eds., Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, Berghahn Books, June 2021

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 2

Part 1 of this post is available here.

March 2021:

Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration, Pluto Press, March 2021

Laura Westra, ed., Forced Migrations and Refugees in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region, Nova Publishers, March 2021

Celeste Cedillo González & Julieta Espín Ocampo, eds., Human Displacement from a Global South Perspective: Migration Dynamics in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Stephen M. Croucher, Flora Galy-Badenas, Shawn M. Condon, Maria Sharapan & Margareta Salonen, Migration and Media in Finland: Perceptions and Depictions of Natives, Immigrants and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis', Manchester Univ. Press, March 2021

Onur Yamaner, Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey: Intersectional Marginalization, Verlag Barbara Budrich, March 2021

Zoe Holman, Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe, Melbourne Univ. Press, March 2021

Legal Text:

Liv Feijen, The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Open Access:

Sergio Carrera & Andrew Geddes, eds., The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights, European Univ. Institute, March 2021

Birgit Meyer & Peter van der Veer, eds., Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories, Bloomsbury, March 2021

Gail Womersley, Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations: A Sociocultural Exploration, Springer, March 2021

New Books: February 2021

New titles published in January & February 2021 are listed below, along with a new legal text.

February 2021:

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021 

Andrew Geddes, Governing Migration Beyond the State: Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia in a Global Context, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Ma Vang, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies, Duke Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Julius Fein, Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021 

Ralf Roßkopf & Katharina Heilmann, eds., International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine & Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, eds., Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management, Routledge, Feb. 2021

Elisabeth Yarbakhsh, Iranian Hospitality, Afghan Marginality: Spaces of Refuge and Belonging in the City of Shiraz, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021

Ken R. Crane, Iraqi Refugees in the United States: The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror, NYU Press, Feb. 2021

Lynne Jones, The Migrant Diaries, Fordham Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Geoffrey Cameron, Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Marcus Herz & Philip Lalander, Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child, Routledge, Feb. 2021

January 2021:

Larry Hollingworth, Aid Memoir, Fordham Univ. Press, Jan. 2021 

- Account of the author's time "as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s."

Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2021

Joe Cropp, The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars, Routledge, Jan. 2021

Legal texts:

Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2021

- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."

New Books: October 2020 - Pt. 1

New titles from October 2020 and new legal texts are listed below. See part 2 for new titles from September 2020 and newly released open access texts.

October 2020: 

Claire Zalc & Catherine Porter (transl.), Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant, Penn State Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Kavita Daiya, Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora, Temple Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Michael N. Barnett, ed., Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Jeff Kaplan, Involuntary Motion: The Somatics of Refugee Performance, Routledge, Oct. 2020

Zahra Babar, ed., Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Jennifer Erickson, Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities, Oct. 2020, Cornell Univ. Press, Oct. 2020 

Sivamohan Valluvan & Virinder S. Kalra, eds., Racial Nationalisms: Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging, Routledge, Oct. 2020

Jan Jansen & Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Eirik Saethre, Wastelands: Recycled Commodities and the Perpetual Displacement of Ashkali and Romani Scavengers, Univ. of California Press, Oct. 2020

Legal texts:

Romola Adeola, The Internally Displaced Person in International Law, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2020

Julian Lehmann, 'Protection' in European Union Asylum Law: International and European Law Requirements for Assessing Available Protection as a Criterion for Refugee and Subsidiary Status, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2020

New Books: March 2020 - Pt. 1

March 2020:

Kate Pincock, Alexander Betts & Evan Easton-Calabria, The Global Governed?: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2020

Olga Oleinikova, Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes: Achiever or Survivor?, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2020

Roli Misra, ed., Migration, Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in Transition, SAGE Publishing, March 2020

February 2020:

Marcia Morgan, Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis: Emotions, Contestation, and Agency, Routledge, Feb. 2020

Siobhan Brownlie, Discourses of Memory and Refugees: Exploring Facets, Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2020

Sergio Carrera & Marco Stefan, eds., Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union: Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice, Routledge, Feb. 2020

Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Bayard Roberts, Oliver Razum & Louise Biddle, eds., Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration, Springer, Feb. 2020

Włodzimierz Borodziej & Joachim von Puttkamer, eds., Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century, Routledge, Feb. 2020

Martin Geiger & Antoine Pécoud, eds., The International Organization for Migration: The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ in Critical Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2020

Mirna Safi, Migration and Inequality, Polity Books, Feb. 2020

Tanja Bastia & Ronald Skeldon, eds., Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge, Feb. 2020


Open access:

Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main, Brigitte Suter, eds., Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values?, Routledge, Feb. 2020
- Includes country case studies for France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Karen Jacobsen & Charles Simpson, eds., Integration and Resettlement of Refugees and Forced Migrants, MDPI, Feb. 2020

James C. Hathaway, ed., The Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees, Maize Books, 2020

Maciej Duszczyk, Marta Pachocka & Dominika Pszczółkowska, eds., Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States, Routledge, Feb. 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: October 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in October. There are also references to books published in September as well as several new legal texts.

October 2019:

Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, Simon & Schuster, Oct. 2019

Gil Richard Musolf, ed., Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope, Emerald Books, Oct. 2019

Susanna M. Hoffman & Roberto E. Barrios, eds., Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2019

Cynthia Anderson, Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town, Public Affairs Books, Oct. 2019

Meryam Schouler-Ocak and Marianne C. Kastrup, eds., Intercultural Psychotherapy: For Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Minority Patients, Springer, Oct. 2019

Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli & David Jacobson, eds., Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2019

Clarke Rountree & Jouni Tilli, eds., National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods, Michigan State Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Şule Can, Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads, Routledge, Oct. 2019

Rania M. Rafik Khalil & Froilan T. Malit, Jr, eds., Recent Migrations and Refugees in the MENA Region, Transnational Press, Oct. 2019

Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Jill Casner-Lotto & Teresita B. Wisell, eds., Working toward an Equitable and Prosperous Future for All: How Community Colleges and Immigrants are Changing America, Rowman & Littlefield, Oct. 2019

September 2019:

Albert Ali Salah, Alex Pentland, Bruno Lepri & Emmanuel Letouzé, eds., Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study, Springer, Sept. 2019

Shane Joshua Barter & William Ascher, eds., Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration, Peter Lang, Sept. 2019

Nicos Trimikliniotis, Migration and the Refugee Dissensus in Europe: Borders, Security and Austerity, Routledge, Sept. 2019

William D. Lopez, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Sept. 2019

Guang Pan, A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945): History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern, Springer, Sept. 2019

Ugur Yildiz, Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Mobility of Non-European Refugees to Canada via Turkey, Routledge, Sept. 2019

Legal texts:

Dree K. Collopy, AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 8th ed., American Immigration Lawyers Association, Aug. 2019

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Leah Zamore, The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, Stanford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019

Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019