01 March 2021

New Books: March 2021

New titles published in February & March 2021 are listed below, along with new legal and open access texts.

March 2021:

Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration, Pluto Press, March 2021

Patricia Hynes, Introducing Forced Migration, Routledge, March 2021

Jeffrey D. Pugh, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2021

Eithne Luibhéid, ed., Lives That Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians, Routledge, March 2021

Gillian Brock, Migration and Political Theory, Polity, March 2021

Nathan Bell, Refugees: Towards a Politics of Responsibility, Rowman & Littlefield, March 2021

February 2021:


Romola Adeola, Emerging Issues in Internal Displacement in Africa, Springer, Feb. 2021

Natalia Ribas-Mateos & Timothy J. Dunn, eds., Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2021 
- Front matter and chapter 1 are freely available.

Lucy Mayblin & Joe Turner, Migration Studies and Colonialism, Polity Press, Feb. 2021 

Legal texts:

Başak Çalı, Ledi Bianku & Iulia Motoc, eds., Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

James C. Hathaway, The Rights of Refugees under International Law, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2021

Open access:

Markus Bayer, Oliver Schwarz & Toralf Stark, eds., Democratic Citizenship in Flux: Conceptions of Citizenship in the Light of Political and Social Fragmentation, transcript-Verlag, Jan. 2021

George Melnyk & Christina Parker, eds., Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation, Athabasca University Press, Feb. 2021

- Part II focuses on “Migration, Refugees and Public Education,” with four chapters.


Richard C. M. Mole, ed., Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe, UCL Press, March 2021
- Note: Access to the complete text will not be available until the book has been formally published on 8 March 2021.

Jordana Silverstein & Rachel Stevens, eds., Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance, ANU Press, Feb. 2021

01 February 2021

New Books: February 2021

New titles published in January & February 2021 are listed below, along with a new legal text.

February 2021:

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021 



Julius Fein, Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938, Lexington Books, Feb. 2021 

Ralf Roßkopf & Katharina Heilmann, eds., International Social Work and Forced Migration: Developments in African, Arab and European Countries, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine & Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, eds., Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management, Routledge, Feb. 2021



Lynne Jones, The Migrant Diaries, Fordham Univ. Press, Feb. 2021

Geoffrey Cameron, Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Feb. 2021


January 2021:

Larry Hollingworth, Aid Memoir, Fordham Univ. Press, Jan. 2021 
- Account of the author's time "as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s."



Legal texts:

- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."


04 January 2021

New Books: January 2021

New titles published in January 2021 and December 2020 are listed below, as well as a new open access text.

January 2021: 


Elżbieta M. Goździak, Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat, Palgrave Macmillan, Jan. 2021

Swati Akshay Sachdeva & Yumnam Surjyajeevan, Identity in Question: The Study of Tibetan Refugees in the Indian Himalayas, Vernon Press, Jan. 2021

Jamie D. Aten & Jenny Hwang, eds., Refugee Mental Health, American Psychological Association, Jan. 2021

December 2020:

Simeon S. Magliveras, ed., Agency and Immigration Policy, Transnational Press London, Dec. 2020


Jarmila Ptáčková, Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects, Univ. of Washington Press, Dec. 2020

Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton & Ayesha Siddiqi , eds., The Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020

- Focuses on the UK.

Open access:

Laura Affolter, Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making, Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2020


01 December 2020

New Books: December 2020

New titles published in November and December 2020 are listed below, as well new legal and open access texts.

December 2020:

Jussi P. Laine, Inocent Moyo & Christopher Changwe Nshimbi. eds., Expanding Boundaries: Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations, Routledge, Dec. 2020




Jane Marchese Robinson, Seeking Sanctuary: A History of Refugees in Britain, Pen & Sword, Dec. 2020

Dorian Brown Crosby, Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration, Politics and Race, Peter Lang, Dec. 2020


Liliana Riga, Mary Holmes, Arek Dakessian, Johannes Langer & David Anderson, Young Refugees and Forced Displacement: Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut, Routledge, Dec. 2020

November 2020:

Olayiwola Abegunrin & Sabella O. Abidde, eds., African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis, Springer, Nov. 2020 

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo & Jussi P. Laine, eds., Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations: Southern African Experiences in Global View, Routledge, Nov. 2020

Jochen Franzke & José M. Ruano de la Fuente, eds., Local Integration of Migrants Policy: European Experiences and Challenges, Springer, Nov. 2020 

Legal text:

Stephanie Anna Motz, The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities, Brill, Nov. 2020

Open access:

Ulrike Lauerhaß, Graham Pote, Eva Wuchold, eds., Atlas of the Stateless: Facts and Figures about Exclusion and Displacement, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Nov. 2020



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: