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: July 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1.

Legal texts:

Vincent Chetail, ed., Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025

Open access:

Clara van den Berg, Civic Refugee Support: The Shifting Landscape of Pro-Refugee Communities in Germany After 2015, transcript Verlag, July 2025

Johanna Leinonen, Miika Tervonen, Hans Otto Frøland, Christhard Hoffmann, Seija Jalagin, Heidi Vad Jønsson & Malin Thor Tureby, eds., Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories, Helsinki Univ. Press, June 2025

Nasir Uddin, ed., Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2025

Paolo Boccagni, Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance, Univ. of California Press, June 2025

Natalie Welfens, Unequal Access: Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes, McGill-Queen's University Press, July 2025

New Books: June 2025

June 2025:

Dominic Davies & Candida Rifkind, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, Wilfrid Laurier University, June 2025

Clara Egger, ed., Hierarchies and Exclusion in Humanitarianism, Manchester Univ. Press, June 2025

Nancy Hiemstra & Deirdre Conlon, Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants in America, Pluto Press, June 2025

Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda, Duke Univ. Press, June 2025

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Paquet & Ethel Tungohan, eds., Knowledge, Power, and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2025

Barbara Gornik, Zorana Medaric & Mateja Sedmak, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2025

Jessica Stroja, ed., Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement, Routledge, June 2025

Izabela Grabowska, Ivanna Kyliushyk & Emil Chról, Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances, Routledge, June 2025

Romain Fathi, Melanie Oppenheimer & Paul-André Rosental, eds., Voluntary Organisations, the Red Cross, and the Features of Humanitarian Reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars, Routledge, June 2025

May 2025:

Johannes Becker, Mathias Bös & Sevil Çakır, eds., Fragility of Global Migration: Exploring a Constitutive Aspect of Migratory Forms, Springer, May 2025

Daniela Gleizer, Emmanuel Kahan, Yael Siman, eds., The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory, Springer, May 2025

Ivan Light, Leo-Paul Dana & Didier Chabaud, eds., Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurs: History, Cases, and Frontiers, Springer, May 2025

Luca Follis, Karolina Follis & Nicola Burns, eds., Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems: Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare, Edward Elgar, May 2025 

Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu & Daniel Ahadi, Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, Routledge, May 2025

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem & Benjamin Michallet, Réfugiés: Ce qu'on ne nous dit pas, Stock, May 2025

Open access:

Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus & Julie Young, eds., Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences, Athabasca University Press, April 2025

Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino & Andrea Vaccaro, Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2025

Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson & Marcus Herz, Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change, Routledge, May 2025

Leila Benhadjoudja, Christina Clark-Kazak & Stéphanie Garneau, eds., Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”: The Making of Crises and Their Effects, Univ. of Ottawa Press, May 2025

Balazs Venkovits, Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada, Sciendo, May 2025

New Books: February 2025

February 2025:

Erika Herrera Rosales, Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Shahd Abusalama, Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2025

José A. Brandariz, Giulia Fabini, Cristina Fernández-Bessa & Valeria Ferraris, eds., Border Criminologies from the Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality, Feb. 2025

Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman & Stuart Dunmore, eds., The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities, Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2025

Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton & Nicole Denier, The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City, Russell Sage Foundation, Feb. 2025

Sophia Balakian, Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, Stanford Univ. Press, Feb. 2025

January 2025:

Marija Grujić, Belonging in Unhomely Homelands: Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025 

Hiroshi Motomura, Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2025 

Gabriele Volpato, Desert Entanglements: The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2025

Wills Kalisha & Tomasz Szkudlarek, eds., Educating the Next Generation: Reflections on Crises, Migration, and Education, Springer, Jan. 2025 

Maria Anita Stefanelli & Izabela Skórzynska, eds., Scars of War: Migration, Security and Sustainable Future, Emerald Publishing, Jan. 2025

Legal texts:

Marc Bossuyt, Right to Asylum: Between Demagogy and Hypocrisy, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2025

Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework, Routledge, Feb. 2025

Open access:

Hanspeter Kriesi, Crisis Policymaking in the EU: The COVID-19 Crisis and the Refugee Crisis 2015-16 Compared, Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2024

Marcus Otto & Tania Saeed, eds., Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education: Grassroots Narratives from Multiregional Settings, Nov. 2024

Seyla Benhabib & Ayelet Shachar, eds., Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025

Tamirace Fakhoury & Dawn Chatty, eds., Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics, I.B. Tauris, Jan. 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. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2024 along with new legal and open access texts, while Part 2 lists additional September 2024 titles. 

October 2024:

Christina Clark-Kazak, Aging In and Out of Place: Lived Experiences of Forced Migration Across the Life Course, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2024

Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli & Bukola Salami, eds., De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice, De Gruyter, Oct. 2024

Min Wha Han, Eun-Jeong Han & JongHwa Lee, eds., Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora Within Homeland, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Clarena Larrotta & Merih Ugurel-Kamisli, eds., English Literacy Educators Working with Refugee Families: An Intercultural Approach to Adult Education, Routledge, Oct. 2024

Brianna Nofil, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

Carol Cleaveland & Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum, NYU Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on the US.

Laura Madokoro, Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on Canada.

Legal texts:

Marie Aronsson-Storrier & Susan C. Breau, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Marjoleine Zieck, Resettlement as Protection: Integrating Resettlement of Refugees in International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024

Open access:

Charlotte Röhner, Jessica Schwittek & Antoanneta Potsi, eds., Transmigration und Place-making junger Geflüchteter = Transmigration and place-making of young refugees, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2024

- Chapters are in English or German.

Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees, Berghahn Books, Oct. 2024

- Focuses on refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya.

New Books: June 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in June 2024 along with additional May 2024 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

June 2024:

Lena Rose & Ebru Öztürk, eds., Asylum and Conversion to Christianity in Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Bloomsbury Academic, June 2024

Rachel Sharples & Linda Briskman, eds., Deter, Detain, Dehumanise: The Politics of Seeking Asylum, Emerald Insight, June 2024

- Focuses on Australia.

Aparna Hebbani, Refugee Settlement in Australia: A Holistic Overview of Current Research and Practice, Routledge, June 2024

Ana Draper, Elisa Marcellino & Samantha Thomson, Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation, Routledge, June 2024

Zeke Hernandez, The Truth about Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, St. Martin's Press, June 2024

Bryan Banks, Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, June 2024

May 2024:

Francesco Lo Piccolo, Annalisa Mangiaracina, Giuseppe Paternostro & Vincenzo Todaro, eds., In and Out: Rights of Migrants in the European Space, Springer, May 2024

Wa'ed Alshoubaki, Navigating Integration Policies of Forced Migration in the United States: The Case of Syrian Refugees, Springer, May 2024

Birgit Blättel-Mink, Torsten Noack, Corinna Onnen, Katrin Späte & Rita Stein-Redent, eds., Refuge: Social Science Debates, Springer, May 2024

- Focuses on Germany.

New Books: February 2023 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in February 2023, while part 2 lists titles published in January 2023 and new open access texts.

February 2023:

Julia Caroline Morris, Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru, Cornell Univ. Press, Feb. 2023

Are John Knudsen & Kjersti G. Berg, eds., Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2023

Danilo Giglitto, Luigina Ciolfi, Eleanor Lockley & Eirini Kaldeli, eds., Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage: Insights from Research and Practice in Europe, Routledge, Feb. 2023

Melissa May Borja, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change, Harvard Univ. Press, Feb. 2023

Jane Freedman, Alice Latouche, Adelina Miranda, Nina Sahraoui, Glenda Santana de Andrade & Elsa Tyszler, eds., The Gender of Borders: Embodied Narratives of Migration, Violence and Agency, Routledge, Feb. 2023

Fleur Johns, #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2023 

Kaamil Ahmed, I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers, Hurst Publishers, Feb. 2023

Rose Jaji, Non-Migration Amidst Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown, Rowman & Littlefield, Feb. 2023

Samantha K. Knapton, Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany, Bloomsbury, Feb. 2023 

Chiara Galli, Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States, Univ. of California Press, Feb. 2023

Elizabeth Chacko & Marie Price, eds., (Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of “Temporariness” among Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Routledge, Feb. 2023

New Books: February 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

January 2023:

Myriam Denov, Claudia Mitchell & Marjorie Rabiau, eds., Global Child: Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration, Rutgers Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano, Elena Cabiati & Sofia Dedotsi, eds., Migration and Social Work: Approaches, Visions and Challenges, Policy Press, Jan. 2023

Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities, Routledge, Jan. 2023 

Joseph Chamie, Population Levels, Trends, and Differentials: More Important Population Matters, Springer, Jan. 2023

- Includes chapters on international migration, irregular migration & refugees.

Jutta Bakonyi & Peter Chonka, Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities, Bristol Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Hasret Çomak, Burak Şakir Şeker, Mehlika Özlem Ultan, Yaprak Civelek & Çağla Arslan Bozkuş, eds., Refugee Crisis in International Policy, vol. V-VI: Refugees in Turkey and Beyond, Transnational Press London, Jan. 2023

Rhoda Kanaaneh, The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America, Univ. of Texas Press, Jan. 2023 

Open access:

Ervis Martani & Denise Helly, eds., Asylum and Resettlement in Canada: Historical Development, Successes, Challenges and Lessons, Genova Univ. Press, Dec. 2022

Andrea Bernert-Bürkle, Paolo Federighi & Francesca Torlone, eds., The Fast Track Labour Market Integration of Immigrants: Work-related Learning of Culture, Language and Profession, W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Jan. 2023

Sabine Krause, Michelle Proyer & Gertraud Kremsner, eds., The Making of Teachers in the Age of Migration: Critical Perspectives on the Politics of Education for Refugees, Immigrants and Minorities, Bloomsbury, Jan. 2023

Simone Baglioni & Francesca Calò, eds., Migrants and Refugees in Europe: Work Integration in Comparative Perspective, Policy Press, Jan. 2023

Enrico Michelini, Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis', Routledge, Feb. 2023 

New Books: November 2022 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in November 2022, while part 2 lists titles published in October 2022 as well as new legal and open access texts.

November 2022:

Joowon Park, Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process, Univ. of California Press, Nov. 2022

Maura Sellars, Scott Imig & John C. Fischetti, Creating Spaces of Wellbeing and Belonging for Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Students: Skills and Strategies for Classroom Teachers, Routledge, Nov. 2022

Lucía Ruiz Rosendo & Marija Todorova, eds., Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios, Routledge, Nov. 2022

- See esp. "Part III. Training interpreters to work with refugees in national and regional contexts."

Andrew Nelson & Rob Curran, Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas, Vanderbilt Univ. Press, Nov. 2022 

Sally Wesley Bonet, Meaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State, Univ. of Minnesota Press, Nov. 2022

Angela McCarthy, ed., Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand, Routledge, Nov. 2022

Eileen Pittaway & Linda Albina Bartolomei, Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women: From Refugee Camps to the United Nations, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2022

Sandra F. Joireman, Peace, Preference, and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict, Michigan Univ. Press, Nov. 2022

Ignacio López-Calvo & Marjorie Agosin, eds., Refugees, Refuge and Human Displacement, Anthem Press, Nov. 2022

New Books: July 2022 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in July 2022, while part 2 lists titles published in June 2022 as well as new open access texts.

July 2022:

Friederike Kind-Kovács, Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War, Indiana University Press, July 2022 

Joachim C. Häberlen, Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany, Routledge, July 2022

Annika Lems, Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth, Indiana University Press, July 2022 

Heide Castañeda, Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, July 2022

B Camminga & John Marnell, eds., Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora, Zed Books, July 2022

Azadeh Dastyari, Amy Nethery & Asher Hirsch, eds., Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability, Routledge, July 2022

Marnie K. Watson & Pritha Gopalan, eds., Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Loss, Transition, and Resilience in a Post-9/11 World, Routledge, July 2022

David K. Androff, Refugee Solutions in the Age of Global Crisis: Human Rights, Integration, and Sustainable Development, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2022

Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek, Refugee Talk: Propositions on Ethics and Aesthetics, Pluto Press, July 2022

Peter Billings, ed., Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis, Routledge, July 2022

Brian A. Gerrard, Erwin D. Selimos & Stephaney S. Morrison, eds., School-Based Family Counseling with Refugees and Immigrants, Routledge, July 2022

Michelle Peterie, Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons, Bristol Univ. Press, July 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: April 2022 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in March & April 2022, while part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

April 2022:

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay & Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2022 

Mohamed Behnassi, Himangana Gupta, Fred Kruidbos & Anita Parlow, eds., The Climate-Conflict-Displacement Nexus from a Human Security Perspective, Springer, April 2022

Antje Missbach, The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: Asylum Out of Reach, Routledge, April 2022

Ria Kapoor, Making Refugees in India, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2022

Rachael Dickson, Migration Law, Policy and Human Rights: The Impact of Crisis in Europe, Routledge, April 2022

Heba Gowayed, Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential, Princeton Univ. Press, April 2022

- Focuses on Syrians.

Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students are Changing the Future of Education, Harvard Univ. Press, April 2022

March 2022:

Colletta Dalikeni, Child Protection Social Workers and Asylum-Seeking Families in Ireland: Issues of Culture, Race, Power Relations, and Mistrust, Peter Lang, March 2022 

Matilde Rosina, The Criminalisation of Irregular Migration in Europe: Globalisation, Deterrence, and Vicious Cycles, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2022

HaeRan Shin, ed., North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements, Lexington Books, March 2022

Nasir Uddin, Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and 'Subhuman' Life, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2022

New Books: September 2021 - Pt. 1

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

September 2021:

Wenona Giles & Lorrie Miller, eds., Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps, Bloomsbury Publishing, Sept. 2021

Arockiam Kulandai, Camp Life of Sri Lankan Refugees in India, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Annika Lems, Kathrin Oester & Sabine Strasser, eds., Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in and en Route to Europe, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Silas W. Allard, Kristin E. Heyer & Raj Nadella, eds., Christianity and the Law of Migration, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Waed Athamneh & Muhammad Masud, Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, Sept. 2021

Basem Mahmud, Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration: Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Siobhan Brownlie & Rédouane Abouddahab, eds., Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Birgit Bräuchler, ed., Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan & Kim Rygiel, The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Tamsin Bradley & Janet Gruber, Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: Mainstreaming in Development Programmes, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Tendayi Bloom & Lindsey N. Kingston, eds., Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire & Marie Bridonneau, eds., Urban Resettlements in the Global South: Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation, Routledge, Sept. 2021

Gemma Houldey, The Vulnerable Humanitarian: Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector, Routledge, Sept. 2021

ActionAid Association, Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa: Travelling for Safety, Routledge, Sept. 2021

New Books: September 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

August 2021:

Christian Harkensee, Karen Olness & B. Emily Esmaili, eds., Child Refugee and Migrant Health: A Manual for Health Professionals, Springer, Aug. 2021

Grace Mieszkalski & Benjamin Zyla, Engaging Displaced Populations in a Future Syrian Transitional Justice Process: The Peacebuilding-Transitional Justice Nexus, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2021

Marco Zoppi, Horizons of Security: The Somali Safety Net in Scandinavia, Rowman & Littlefield, Aug. 2021

Lorena Gazzotti, Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2021

Zaki Nahaboo & Nathan Kerrigan, Migrants, Borders and the European Question: The Calais Jungle, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2021

Doris S. Warriner, ed., Refugee Education across the Lifespan: Mapping Experiences of Language Learning and Use, Springer, Aug. 2021

Legal texts:

Mai Kaneko-Iwase, Nationality of Foundlings: Avoiding Statelessness Among Children of Unknown Parents Under International Nationality Law, Springer, Sept. 2021

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law, 4th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2021

Open access:

Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The Built Environment as an Added Educator in East African Refugee Camps, UCL Press, Aug. 2021

Anna Ball, Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements, Routledge, Sept. 2021

- Note: Access to the text will not be available until 22 Sept.

Susanne Fengler, Monika Lengauer & Anna-Carina Zappe, eds., Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators, UNESCO, July 2021

Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain & Allan Lavell, eds., Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South, UCL Press, June 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: March 2021

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

March 2021:

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

Patricia Hynes, Introducing Forced Migration, Routledge, March 2021

Jeffrey D. Pugh, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2021

Eithne Luibhéid, ed., Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians, Routledge, March 2021

Gillian Brock, Migration and Political Theory, Polity, March 2021

Nathan Bell, Refugees: Towards a Politics of Responsibility, Rowman & Littlefield, March 2021

February 2021:

Antje Ellermann, The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Romola Adeola, Emerging Issues in Internal Displacement in Africa, Springer, Feb. 2021

Natalia Ribas-Mateos & Timothy J. Dunn, eds., Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2021 

- Front matter and chapter 1 are freely available.

Lucy Mayblin & Joe Turner, Migration Studies and Colonialism, Polity Press, Feb. 2021 

Legal texts:

Başak Çalı, Ledi Bianku & Iulia Motoc, eds., Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

James C. Hathaway, The Rights of Refugees under International Law, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2021

Open access:

Markus Bayer, Oliver Schwarz & Toralf Stark, eds., Democratic Citizenship in Flux: Conceptions of Citizenship in the Light of Political and Social Fragmentation, transcript-Verlag, Jan. 2021

George Melnyk & Christina Parker, eds., Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation, Athabasca University Press, Feb. 2021

Annika Wilmers & Sieglinde Jornitz, eds., International Perspectives on School Settings, Education Policy and Digital Strategies: A Transatlantic Discourse in Education Research, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

- Part II focuses on “Migration, Refugees and Public Education,” with four chapters.

Chigozie Nnebedum, Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Euro-African Problem in the 21st Century, Globethics.net, Feb. 2021

Richard C. M. Mole, ed., Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe, UCL Press, March 2021

- Note: Access to the complete text will not be available until the book has been formally published on 8 March 2021.

Jordana Silverstein & Rachel Stevens, eds., Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance, ANU Press, Feb. 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: 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