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: January 2023

January 2023:

Toyin Falola & Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, African Refugees, Indiana Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Ashleigh Haw, Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media: Mediated (In)humanity, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2023

Michael J. Carpenter, Melissa Kelly & Oliver Schmidtke, eds., Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective, Univ. of Ottawa Press, Jan. 2023 

Nereida Ripero-Muñiz, Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg, Berghahn Books, Jan. 2023

John Vincent, Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and Other New Arrivals, Routledge, Jan. 2023

Marcia C. Schenck and Kate Reed, eds., The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

Rodziana Mohamed Razali, Safeguarding Against Statelessness at Birth: International Law and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN Member States, Springer, Jan. 2023

December 2022:

Mike Classon Frangos & Sheila Ghose, eds., Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2022 

Anna Triandafyllidou, ed., Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, Routledge, 2nd ed., Dec. 2022

Ross Bond, Understanding International Migration: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2022 

Open access:

Susanne Boersma, The Aftermaths of Participation: Outcomes and Consequences of Participatory Work with Forced Migrants in Museums, transcript Verlag, Dec. 2022

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marta Pachocka, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Justyna Szałańska & Monika Szulecka, From Reception to Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland, Routledge, Dec. 2022

Martin Scott, Kate Wright & Mel Bunce, Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone, Routledge, Dec. 2022

Christian Albrekt Larsen, ed., Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe, Edward Elgar, Oct. 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: 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: June 2021

June 2021:

Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock & Bassam Abu Hamad, eds., Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities, Routledge, June 2021

Anne Sophie Krossa, Analysing Society in a Global Context: Empirical Studies on Sociation Processes of Volunteers and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2021

Alexandra Cosima Budabin & Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Elisa Pascucci, eds., Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders, Routledge, June 2021

Daniel Bertrand Monk & Andrew Herscher, The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Marry-Anne Karlsen, Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway, Routledge, June 2021 

Erling Lorentzen Sogge, The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon: A Political History of the 'Ayn al-Hilwe Camp, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Giles Merritt, People Power: Why We Need More Migrants, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Hasret Çomak, Burak Şakir Şeker, Mehlika Özlem Ultan, Yaprak Civelek & Çağla Arslan Bozkuş, eds., Refugee Crisis in International Policy, vol. 1: Legal and Social Statuses of Refugees, Transnational Press London, June 2021 

Andrejs Plakans, The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West after World War II, Brill, June 2021

May 2021:

Jason A. Dzubow, Asylumist: How to Seek Asylum in the United States and Keep Your Sanity, Palmyra Books, May 2021

Vinzenz Kratzer, Governmental Migration Research in Germany: Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, transcript Verlag, May 2021

Mo Yee Lee, ed., Immigrant and Refugee Youth and Families: Research and Practice, Routledge, May 2021

Legal texts:

Laura Hughes-Gerber, Diplomatic Asylum: Exploring a Legal Basis for the Practice Under General International Law, Springer, May 2021

Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster & McAdam, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2021

- Note: See also this related blog post with links to preprints of books chapters.

Open access:

Lore Van Praag, Loubna Ou-Salah, Elodie Hut & Caroline Zickgraf, Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes, Springer, May 2021

Alice Massari, Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, Springer, May 2021

New Books: November 2020 - Pt. 2

See Part 1 of this post for new book titles released in Nov. 2020. 

October 2020:

Vildan Mahmutoğlu & John Morán González, eds., Communication of Migration in Media and Arts, Transnational Press London, Oct. 2020

Michela Ceccorulli, Enrico Fassi & Sonia Lucarelli, eds., The EU Migration System of Governance: Justice on the Move, Springer, Oct. 2020

John Morrissey, ed., Haven: The Mediterranean Crisis and Human Security, Edward Elgar Publishing, Oct. 2020 

Ryan Essex, The Healthcare Community and Australian Immigration Detention: The Case for Non-Violent Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2020

Jesper Bjarnesen and Simon Turner, eds., Invisibility in African Displacements: From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance, Zed Books, Oct. 2020

Declan Henry, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers: The Truth about Britain, Critical Publishing, Oct. 2020

Open access:

Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren & Martin Joormann, eds., Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe, Manchester Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen & Shahram Khosravi, eds., Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration, Taylor & Francis, Oct. 2020

New Books: February 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in February. There are also references to books published in January and December as well as a new legal text title.

February 2019:

Laurie L. Charlés & Gameela Samarasinghe, eds., Family Systems and Global Humanitarian Mental Health: Approaches in the Field, Springer, Feb. 2019

Gordon DiGiacomo & Susan L. Kang, eds., The Institutions of Human Rights: Developments and Practices, Univ. of Toronto Press, Feb. 2019
- See esp. Chapter 6, "Protecting Refugee Rights: International Refugee Law and the UNHCR."

Cecilia Menjívar, Marie Ruiz & Immanuel Ness, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2019

Barbara K. Eisold, Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process: Encountering Well-Founded Fear, Routledge, Feb. 2019

Trine Øland, Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State, Routledge, Feb. 2019

January 2019:

Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe, Stanford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019

Pascale Allotey & Daniel Reidpath, eds., The Health of Refugees: Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement, Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019

Daphna Sharfman, Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik: The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948, Routledge, Jan. 2019

Gaja Maestri, Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation: The Contentious Politics of Roma and Migrant Housing, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2019

Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta & Katie Willis, eds., Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice, Policy Press, Jan. 2019

December 2018:

Susana de Sousa Ferreira, Human Security and Migration in Europe's Southern Borders, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2018

Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova & Denise Venturi, eds., LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, Springer, Dec. 2018

Alexander Krämer & Florian Fischer, eds., Refugee Migration and Health: Challenges for Germany and Europe, Springer, Dec. 2018

Elisabeth Wacker, Ulrich Becker & Katharina Crepaz, eds., Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU: Comparative and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges and Solutions, Springer, Dec. 2018

Legal texts:

Charlotte Lülf, Conflict Displacement and Legal Protection: Understanding Asylum, Human Rights and Refugee Law, Routledge, Feb. 2019