01 June 2020

New Books: June 2020 - Pt. 1

Part 2 lists new legal texts and Open Access titles.

June 2020:


Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants, Princeton Univ. Press, June 2020

Silvia Pasquetti & Romola Sanyal, eds., Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, Manchester Univ. Press, June 2020


Jana K. Lipman, In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates, Univ. of California Press, June 2020

Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade & Page R. Laws, eds., Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape, Lexington Books, June 2020

Sonia Shah, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2020

Sourav Kumar Das & Nidhi Chowdhary, Refugee Crises and Third-World Economies: Policies and Perspectives, Emerald Publishing, June 2020

Colin Yeo, Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System, Bite Back Publishing, June 2020
- See also related book review.

May 2020:

Mary Crock, Kate Bones, Daniel Ghezelbash, Jemma Hollonds & Mary Anne Kenny, Children and Young People in Asylum and Refugee Processes: Towards Best Practice, Federation Press, May 2020 


New Books: June 2020 - Pt. 2

Legal texts:

Ben Saul & Dapo Akande, eds., The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2020

Open access:

Sergio Carrera, Deirdre Curtin & Andrew Geddes, eds., 20 Years Anniversary of the Tampere Programme: Europeanisation Dynamics of the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, European University Institute, May 2020
- See esp. Part II on "Borders and Asylum."


Sarah Spencer & Anna Triandafyllidou, eds., Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges, Springer, May 2020

01 May 2020

New Books: May 2020

May 2020:

Melissa Schnyder and Noha Shawki, Advocating for Refugees in the European Union: Norm-Based Strategies by Civil-Society Organizations, Rowman & Littlefield, May 2020

A. Naomi Paik, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, Univ. of California Press, May 2020

Jean-François Véran, Doris Burtscher & Beverley Stringer, eds., Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration, Routledge, May 2020

Jochen Lingelbach, On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War, Berghahn Books, May 2020

Beata Halicka, The Polish Wild West: Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948, Routledge, May 2020

Jessy Abouarab, Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity through a Feminist Lens: The Case of Lebanon, Rowman & Littlefield, May 2020

Rachel Sharples, Spaces of Solidarity: Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands, Berghahn Books, May 2020

Tom Scott-Smith & Mark E. Breeze, eds., Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter, Berghahn Books, May 2020

April 2020:

John Washington, The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond, Verso Books, April 2020

Tom Scott-Smith, On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, Cornell Univ. Press, April 2020

Swen Steinberg & Anthony Grenville, eds., Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories, Brill, April 2020

Legal texts:

Lili Song, Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press, May 2020

Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud & Elspeth Guild, eds., EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights: Taking Supranational Citizenship Seriously, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2020

Valsamis Mitsilegas, Violeta Moreno-Lax & Niovi Vavoula, eds., Securitising Asylum Flows: Deflection, Criminalisation and Challenges for Human Rights, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2020



01 April 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


New Books: April 2020 - Pt. 2

March 2020:

Giuliana Laschi, Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes, eds., Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992), Routledge, March 2020

Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico & Douglas H. Ubelaker, eds., Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, 2 vols., Wiley, March 2020

Izabella Majcher, Michael Flynn & Mariette Grange, Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the 'Crisis', Springer, March 2020

Gillian Brock, Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2020

Olga Oleinikova, Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes: Achiever or Survivor?, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2020

Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer & James Crossland, eds., The Red Cross Movement: Myths, Practices and Turning Points, Manchester University Press, March 2020

Elodie Rémy, Réfugiés: L'Hébergement chez des Particuliers - Des Liens Qui Rendent Libres,  L'Harmattan, March 2020

Pamela Ballinger, The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy, Cornell University Press, March 2020

Open Access:

Charles Oberg, ed., Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children, MDPI, March 2020

Julian Agyeman & Sydney Giacalone, eds., The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America, MIT Press, March 2020

Sabrina Ellebrecht, Mediated Bordering: EUROSUR, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border, De Gruyter, March 2020


02 March 2020

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


New Books: March 2020 - Pt. 2 (Legal texts)

Legal texts:

Alexander Sungurov, Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, María Cruz Llamazares Calzadilla & Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, eds.,  Current Issues on Human Rights, Dykinson, 2020

Gilad Ben-Nun, The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians: The History of International Humanitarian Law, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2020

Justine N Stefanelli, Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU: From Principles to Practice, Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States, UBC Press, Feb. 2020

Mark Klaassen, Stephanie Rap, Peter Rodrigues & Ton Liefaard, eds., Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law, Intersentia, Jan. 2020