02 November 2020

New Books: November 2020 - Pt. 1

New titles published in November 2020 are listed below. See part 2 for new titles from October 2020 and newly released open access texts.

November 2020:

Karen Akoka, L'Asile et l'Exil: Une Histoire de la Distinction Réfugiés/Migrants, Éditions La Découverte, Nov. 2020

Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine, eds., Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry, PM Press/Kairos, Nov. 2020
- See also info on discounts for this title.

Matthew Scott & Albert Salamanca, eds., Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Daniel Briggs, Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Sujit Kumar Mishra & R. Siva Prasad, Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion: Political Economy of Development in India, Routledge & Aakar Books, Nov. 2020

Adriana Mica, Anna Horolets, Mikołaj Pawlak & Paweł Kubicki, Ignorance and Change: Anticipatory Knowledge and the European Refugee Crisis, Routledge, Nov. 2020


Magdalena Suerbaum, Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt, I.B. Tauris, Nov. 2020

Joanna McIntyre & Fran Abrams, Refugee Education: Theorising Practice in Schools, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Kelsey P. Norman, Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, Nov. 2020

William L. Partridge & David B. Halmo, Resettling Displaced Communities: Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement, Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2020

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


01 October 2020

New Books: October 2020 - Pt. 1

New titles from October 2020 and new legal texts are listed below. See part 2 for new titles from September 2020 and newly released open access texts.

October 2020: 

Claire Zalc & Catherine Porter (transl.), Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2020


Kavita Daiya, Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora, Temple Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Michael N. Barnett, ed., Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2020


Zahra Babar, ed., Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Jennifer Erickson, Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities, Oct. 2020, Cornell Univ. Press, Oct. 2020 

Sivamohan Valluvan & Virinder S. Kalra, eds., Racial Nationalisms: Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging, Routledge, Oct. 2020

Jan Jansen & Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2020

Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History, Harvard Univ. Press, Oct. 2020


Legal texts:



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


Open access:

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





01 September 2020

New Books: September 2020 - Pt. 1

New titles from both August and September 2020 are listed below. New legal texts are provided in Part 2.

September 2020:

Robert Layton, The Anthropology of Displaced Communities, Sean Kingston Publishing, Sept. 2020

Anne Meike Fechter & Anke Schwittay, Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism: Development Futures?, Routledge, Sept. 2020

Ralf Roßkopf and Katharina Heilmann, eds., International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Sept. 2020

David Nasaw, The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, Penguin Press, Sept. 2020

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

Greg Prieto, Myth and Reality in the U.S. Immigration Debate, Routledge, Sept. 2020

Serena Parekh, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

Gillian McFadyen, Refugees in Britain: Practices of Hospitality and Labelling, Edinburgh University Press, Sept. 2020

Shauna Labman & Geoffrey Cameron, eds., Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

Anne Marie Baylouny, When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon, Cornell Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

August 2020:

Esther Möller, Johannes Paulmann & Katharina Stornig, eds., Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020

Yiagadeesen Samy & Howard Duncan, eds., International Affairs and Canadian Migration Policy, Aug. 2020

Sara Marino, Mediating the Refugee Crisis: Digital Solidarity, Humanitarian Technologies and Border Regimes, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Migration Crises in 21st Century Africa: Patterns, Processes and Projections, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020

Glenn Rayp, Ilse Ruyssen & Katrin Marchand, eds., Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South, Springer, Aug. 2020

Jesse Spohnholz, Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2020


New Books: September 2020 - Pt. 2

Part 1 is available here.

Legal Texts:

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

Romola Adeola, Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa: The Kampala Convention, Routledge, Sept. 2020

Felicity G. Attard, The Duty of the Shipmaster to Render Assistance at Sea under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020

Madalina Moraru, Galina Cornelisse & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Law and Judicial Dialogue on the Return of Irregular Migrants from the European Union, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2020

Adam B. Cox & Cristina M. Rodríguez, The President and Immigration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2020

Dana Schmalz, Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State, Routledge, Sept. 2020



03 August 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


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