New Books: August 2025 - Pt. 1

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

August 2025:

Stephen Mamula & Eva Sutton, Cambodian Journeys: Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2025

Yumi Moon, ed., Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, Humanitarianism from Below: Faith, Welfare, and the Role of Casas de Migrantes in Mexico, NYU Press, Aug. 2025

Ailbhe Kenny, Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Estelle Boyle, Networks of Belonging: Refugee and Migrant Inclusion in Australia, and Digital Communication, Routledge, Aug. 2025 

Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto & Diego Chaves-González, On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025

Laura C. Forster, The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025 

Virginia De Micco, Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, The Refugee Abyss, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Marie Jelínková, Agnieszka Bielewska & Karin Amit, eds., Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, Aug. 2025

- Note: Two chapters in this volume will be open access as of 11 Aug. 2025.

July 2025:

Eseta Tualaulelei, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley & Alison Bedford, Children’s Picture Books about Refugees and Campbell’s Monomyth, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Robert Koulish & Ernesto Calvo, Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals: How Scoring Algorithms Transformed Anti-Immigrant Sentiments into Policy, Springer, July 2025

Rick Dolphijn & Nicholas Polson, eds., Food, Migration and Belonging: A Glossary for Doing Fieldwork in Contemporary Europe, Springer, July 2025 

Elizabeth Coombes, Emma Maclean & Samuel Gracida, eds., Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Trauma, Transformations and Cultural Connections, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, July 2025

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: 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 Books: October 2021

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

October 2021:

Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub & Melina Philippou, eds., Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp, MIT Press, Oct. 2021

Idowu Jola Ajibade & A.R. Siders, eds., Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice: Navigating Retreat, Routledge, Oct. 2021

Kevin O'Sullivan, The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2021 

Markus Bell, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2021

Neel Ahuja, Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century, Univ. of North Carolina Press, Oct. 2021

Joseph A. Kéchichian & Fahad L. Alsharif, Sa‘udi Policies towards Migrants and Refugees: A Sacred Duty, Sussex Academic Press, Oct. 2021

Elizabeth Allen, Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Oct. 2021  

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, Stanford Univ. Press, Oct. 2021

September 2021:

Donatella della Porta & Elias Steinhilper, eds., Contentious Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Steven A. Hirschler, Hostile Homes: Violence, Harm and the Marketisation of UK Asylum Housing, Springer, Sept. 2021

Jo Wilding, The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation, Policy Press, Sept. 2021

- Focuses on the UK.

John Marnell, Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration, Wits University Press, Sept. 2021 

Legal text:

Dario Dzananovic, Migration, the State and Faith-Based Organizations, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2021

- Focuses on the US and the Netherlands.

Open access:

Molly Katrina Land, Kathryn Rae Libal & Jillian Robin Chambers, eds., Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2021

Nadya Hajj, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, Univ. of California Press, Oct. 2021

- Note: The text will become available as of 19 Oct. 2021.

Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira & Nina Held, Queering Asylum in Europe: Legal and Social Experiences of Seeking International Protection on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Springer, Sept. 2021

New Books: October 2018

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

October 2018:

Robert E. Bartholomew & Anja Reumschuessel, American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants, Penguin Random House, Oct. 2018

Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez & Chigumi Kawaguchi, eds., Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (Routledge, Oct. 2018)

Peter L. Patrick, Monika S. Schmid & Karin Zwaan, eds., Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin: Current Perspectives and New Directions, Springer, Oct. 2018 

Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, Univ. of California Press, Oct. 2018 

Tamara Caraus & Elena Paris, eds., Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance: A Radical Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Routledge, Oct. 2018

Sibylle Heilbrunn, Jörg Freiling & Aki Harima, eds., Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Case-based Topography, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2018 

Margit Feischmidt, Ludger Pries & Celine Cantat, eds., Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2018 

Olga Maya Demetriou, Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject: Reconsidering Minor Losses, SUNY Press, Oct. 2018
- Focuses on Cyprus.

Jacqueline Stevenson & Sally Baker, Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2018

Enakshi Sengupta & Patrick Blessinger , eds., Strategies, Policies and Directions for Refugee Education, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2018

September 2018:

Nathan Riley Carpenter & Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds., Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity, Indiana Univ. Press, Sept. 2018

Pope Francis, A Stranger and You Welcomed Me: A Call to Mercy and Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, Orbis Books, Sept. 2018

August 2018:

Jan Raska, Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada, 1945-1989, Univ. of Manitoba Press, Aug. 2018

Ibrahim Sirkeci, Emília Lana de Freitas Castro & Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, eds., Migration Policy in Crisis, Transnational Press London, Aug. 2018

July 2018:

Mateja Celestina, Living Displacement: The Loss and Making of Place in Colombia, Manchester Univ. Press, July 2018

New Books: May 2018

See below for new listings of books due out in May. There are also additional references to books published in March and April, new legal texts, and an open access book!

May 2018:

Asfa-Wossen Asserate, African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe, Haus Publishing, May 2018

Kathy Davis,‎ Halleh Ghorashi & Peer Smets, eds., Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies, Emerald Publishing, May 2018

Carleen Maitland, ed., Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons, MIT Press, May 2018

Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly & Mary Jane Curry, eds., Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts, Multilingual Matters, May 2018

Gerhard Besier & Katarzyna Stoklosa, eds., How to Deal with Refugees? Europe as a Continent of Dreams, LIT Verlag, May 2018

Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, Picador, May 2018

April 2018:

Mary Ngo, Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route, Routledge, April 2018

Teresa Thornhill, Hara Hotel: A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece, Verso Books, April 2018

March 2018:

Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, Emanuele Sommario, Federico Casolari & Giulio Bartolini, eds., Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters, Routledge, March 2018

Legal texts:

Katia Bianchini, Protecting Stateless Persons: The Implementation of the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons across EU States, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
- See also this supplementary abstract.

Hilary Evans Cameron, Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge University Press, May 2018

Open access:

Sieglinde Rosenberger, Verena Stern & Nina Merhaut, eds., Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation, Springer, April 2018