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: May 2021 - Pt. 1

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

May 2021:

Alison Peck, The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction, Univ. of California Press, May 2021 

Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan, Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis, McFarland, May 2021 

Rebecca Hamlin, Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move, Stanford Univ. Press, May 2021

Christine Monaghan, Educating for Durable Solutions: Histories of Schooling in Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps, Bloomsbury, May 2021

Martha Montero-Sieburth, Rosa Mas Giralt, Noemi Garcia-Arjona & Joaquín Eguren, eds., Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships, Routledge, May 2021

Jeannette Money & Sarah P. Lockhart, eds., Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century, Routledge, May 2021

Don Vu, Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Supporting Our Immigrant and Refugee Children Through the Power of Reading, Scholastic, May 2021

Natasha Carver, Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom, Rutgers University Press, May 2021

Giorgio Grappi, ed., Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension, Routledge, May 2021

Laure Humbert, Reinventing French Aid: The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945–1952, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2021 

Gil Loescher, Refugees: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021

Sibylla Brodzinsky & Max Schoening, eds., Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence, Haymarket Books, May 2021 

Alexander Betts, The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies, Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021

New Book Titles: October 2020 - Pt. 2

Part 1 of this post is available here.

September 2020:

Joanne Laycock & Francesca Piana, eds., Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present, Manchester Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

Robert S. Meyers, Conducting Psychological Assessments for U.S. Immigration Cases, Springer, Sept. 2020

Mogens Chrom Jacobsen, Emnet Berhanu Gebre & Drago Župarić-Iljić, eds., Cosmopolitanism, Migration and Universal Human Rights, Springer, Sept. 2020

Darren Palmer, Garry Coventry, Glenn Dawes & Stephen Moston, Crime, Criminalization and Refugees: The Case of Sudanese Australian, Springer, Sept. 2020

Kelly McKowen & John Borneman, eds., Digesting Difference: Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Angelika Groterath, Viviana Langher & Georgia Marinelli , eds., Flight and Migration from Africa to Europe: Contributions of Psychology and Social Work, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2020

Yvan Yenda Ilunga, Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Pablo Bose, Refugees in New Destinations and Small Cities: Resettlement in Vermont, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2020

Open access:

Antonio De Lauri, ed., Humanitarianism: Keywords, Brill, Sept. 2020

Doug Specht, ed., Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping, Univ. of London Press, Sept. 2020

Laura Zanfrini, ed., Migrants and Religion: Paths, Issues, and Lenses - A Multidisciplinary and Multi-Sited Study on the Role of Religious Belongings in Migratory and Integration Processes, Brill, Sept. 2020

New Books: August 2020

August 2020:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July 2020: 

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

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

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

Legal texts:

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

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

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

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

Open access:

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

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

New Books: April 2020 - Pt. 1

Part 2 lists books published in March 2020 as well as new Open Access texts.

April 2020:

Francis Musoni, Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa, Indiana Univ. Press, April 2020

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism: After the Dayton Peace Agreement, Palgrave Pivot, April 2020

Jacqueline Jenkinson, Colonial, Refugee and Allied Civilians after the First World War: Immigration Restriction and Mass Repatriation, Routledge, April 2020

Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, Univ. of Minnesota Press, April 2020

Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya & Janna Graham, How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2020

Marie-Claire Foblets & Luc Leboeuf, eds., Humanitarian Admission to Europe: The Law between Promises and Constraints, Nomos/Hart Publishing, April 2020

Kelsey Freeman, No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border, Ig Publishing, April 2020

J. David Kinzie & George A. Keepers, eds., The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, April 2020

Adam Teller, Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, Princeton Univ. Press, April 2020

Donatella Di Cesare, Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration, Polity Books, April 2020