New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2025 along with additional August 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal, reference and open access texts. 

September 2025:

Jennifer Ferng, Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru, Routledge, Sept. 2025

Michael M. Gunter & Ali Askerov, Forgotten Exile: The Deportations of Azerbaijanis by the Armenians in the Caucasus during the Twentieth Century, Brill, Sept. 2025

Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe, Fernwood Publishing, Sept. 2025 

Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch & Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2025

Cléa Fortuné, Tensions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: From Border Security to Local Insecurity, Routledge, Sept. 2025

August 2025:

Małgorzata Dziekońska & Kamil Luczaj, eds., Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024), Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli & Thalita Franciely de Melo Silva, eds., Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legal and Policy Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Sami Alanne, Music, Music Therapy and Refugees: Aspects of Trauma, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

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, Aug. 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: 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: October 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

September 2024:

Isabelle Desportes, Alice Corbet & Ayesha Siddiqi, eds., Depoliticising Humanitarian Action: Paradigms, Dilemmas, Resistance, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Bulbul Siddiqi, ed., Displacement and Refugee Issues in South Asia: Uncovering the Contested Realities, Lexington Books, Sept. 2024

Gabriele Abbondanza, The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia, Routledge, Sept. 2024

AKM Ahsan Ullah, ed., Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia, Springer, Sept. 2024 

- Note: This is a "living reference work" so it will continue to be updated.

Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston & Mark Falcous, eds., Handbook on Sport and Migration, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024 

Federico Alagna, Migrant Smuggling and the Criminalisation of Migration in the EU: Policies and Practices from Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2024

Mónica Reyes, Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics, Routledge, Sept. 2024

Kunle Musbaudeen Oparinde & Rodwell Makombe, Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Identity, Emerald Publishing, Sept. 2024 

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: March 2024 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

February 2024:

Zaglul Haider, Biharis in Bangladesh: Transition from Statelessness to Citizenship, Springer, Feb. 2024 

Andrea Behrends, Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad–Sudan Borderlands, Hurst Publishers, Feb. 2024 

Lauren Markham, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, Penguin Random House, Feb. 2024

- Focuses on Greece.

Veysi Dag, Voices of the Disenfranchized: Knowledge Production by Kurdish-Yezidi Refugees from Below, Palgrave Macmillan, Feb. 2024

Legal texts:

Linus Jannek Mührel, The Authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross: Determining What International Humanitarian Law Is, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2024

Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2024

Open access: 

Jonas Bergmann, At Risk of Deprivation: The Multidimensional Well-Being Impacts of Climate Migration and Immobility in Peru, Springer, Oct. 2023

Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi, eds., Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday, Amsterdam Univ. Press, Feb. 2024

Are John Knudsen & Sarah A. Tobin, eds., Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, March 2024

New Books: February 2024 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in February 2024 as well as new legal texts, while Part 2 lists new January 2024 titles and open access texts.

February 2024:

Eithne Nightingale, Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day, Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2024 

Susan J. Terrio, Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope, NYU Press, Feb. 2024

- Focuses on Central Americans in the US.

Ali Bhagat, Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism, Cornell University Press, Feb. 2024

Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha & Tobias Denskus, eds., Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2024

Jennifer Riggan & Amanda Poole, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence, Indiana Univ. Press, Feb. 2024

Rituparna Roy, Jayanta Sengupta & Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations, Routledge India, Feb. 2024

Afaf Jabiri, Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2024

Legal texts:

Andreas Zimmermann, Terje Einarsen & Franziska M. Herrmann, eds., The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2024

Emma Dunlop, Ensuring Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 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: March 2023 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Open access:

Mari-Liis Jakobson, Russell King, Laura Moroşanu & Raivo Vetik, eds., Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times, Springer, Feb. 2023

Annika Lindberg, Deportation Limbo: State Violence and Contestations in the Nordics, Manchester Univ. Press, Jan. 2023

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

Fabio Perocco, ed., Migration and Torture in Today’s World, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Jan. 2023

Brittany Murray, Matthew Brill-Carlat & Maria Höhn, eds., Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education: Now What?, Springer, March 2023

Jared Keyel, Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States: War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest, Berghahn Books, Feb. 2023

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, Routledge, Feb. 2023

Gabriele Rosenthal, ed., Transnational Biographies: Changing We-images, Collective Belongings and Power Chances of Migrants and Refugees, Göttingen University Press, 2022

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: September 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in September. There are also references to books published in August as well as a new legal text and reference book.

September:

Ċetta Mainwaring, At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2019

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump, NYU Press, Sept. 2019 

Tommaso Natoli & Alice Riccardi, eds., Borders, Legal Spaces and Territories in Contemporary International Law: Within and Beyond, Springer, Sept. 2019

Sweta Shah, Early Childhood Development in Humanitarian Crises: South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda, Routledge, Sept. 2019 

Stephanie Malia Hom, Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention, Cornell University Press, Sept. 2019

Susan McGrath & Julie E.E. Young, eds., Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement, Univ. of Calgary Press, Sept. 2019

Chris Chancey & Katie Gibson, Refugee Workforce: The Economic Case for Hiring the Displaced, Amplio Recruiting, Sept. 2019

Lee T. Bycel, Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words, Rutgers Univ. Press, Sept. 2019

August:

Todd Miller, Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World, Verso Books, Aug. 2019

Sarah S. Willen, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Aug. 2019

Kate Darian-Smith & Paula Hamilton, eds., Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, August 2019

Lauren Wroe, Rachel Larkin& Reima Ana Maglajlic, eds., Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: Theory and Skills for Practice, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Aug. 2019

Legal text:

Deborah Anker, The Law of Asylum in the United States, Thomson Reuters, 2019

Reference book:

Catherine Baillie Abidi & Shiva Nourpanah, Refugees & Forced Migration: A Canadian Perspective - An A-Z Guide, Nimbus Publishing, July 2019

New Books: August 2019

See below for new listings of books due out in August. There are also a few references to books published in June and July as well as a legal text.

August 2019:

Khaled Hassine, Handling Climate Displacement, Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2019

Hamza Safouane, Stories of Border Crossers: A Critical Inquiry into Forced Migrants’ Journey Narratives to the European Union, Springer, Aug. 2019

Nina Maadad, Syrian Refugee Children in Australia and Sweden: Education and Survival among the Displaced, Dispossessed and Disrupted, Routledge, August 2019

Peter, Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent, Basic Books, August 2019

July 2019:

Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel & Sam Tyano, eds., An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health, Springer, July 2019

Robin Andersen & Adrian Bergmann, Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence, Routledge, July 2019

Sinja Hantscher, The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2019

June 2019:

Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara & Tineke Strik, eds., Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered, Edward Elgar, June 2019
- Note: Chapter 1 is freely available.

Legal text:

Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo & Enid Trucios-Haynes, Understanding Immigration Law, 3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press, August 2019