New Books: July 2021

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

July 2021:

Robert F Barsky, Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us about People Fleeing from Persecution, Hart Publishing, July 2021 

Ulrike Krause, Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Ronit Lentin & Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex, Rowman & Littlefield, July 2021

Diego Fernandez Otegui & Daryl Yoder-Bontrager, eds., The Humanitarian Machine: Reflections from Practice, Routledge, July 2021

Lim Il & Adam Zulawnik, Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho, Routledge, July 2021

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti & Jayne Caudwell, eds., Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems, Routledge, July 2021

Thomas Ricento, Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social and Cultural Capital, Palgrave Macmillan, July 2021

Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner & Bernhard Streitwieser, eds., Refugees in Higher Education: Questioning the Notion of Integration, Springer, July 2021

Mausumi Kar, Jayita Mukhopadhyay & Manisha Deb Sarkar, eds., South Asia and Climate Change: Unravelling the Conundrum, Routledge, July 2021

- Note: Part II focuses on "Climate Change Induced Human Migration: Concerns for Environmental Refugees."

Tobin Hansen & María Engracia Robles Robles, eds., Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, July 2021

June 2021:

Juliano Fiori, Fernando Espada, Andrea Rigo, Bertrand Taithe & Rafia Zakaria, Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, Hurst, June 2021

Magdalena Smieszek, The Evolving Psyche of Law in Europe: The Psychology of Human Rights and Asylum Frameworks, Springer, June 2021 

Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso, eds., Handbook of Citizenship and Migration, Edward Elgar, June 2021 

Natalie Khazaal & Núria Almiron, Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering, Brill, June 2021 

Roger Bromley, Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Springer, June 2021 

Aristotle Tziampiris & Foteini Asderaki, eds., The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed: Emerging Issues and New Actors, Springer, June 2021

- Note: Includes four chapters on refugee and migration issues.

Becky Taylor, Karen Akoka, Marcel Berlinghoff & Shira Havkin, eds., When Boat People were Resettled, 1975–1983: A Comparative History of European and Israeli Responses to the South-East Asian Refugee Crisis, Springer, June 2021

- Note: The chapter on Vietnamese refugees in Britain is open access.

Legal texts:

Janna Wessels, The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021

Open access:

Jasmin Lilian Diab, ed., Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights, E-International Relations, 2021

Hans Karl Peterlini & Jasmin Donlic, eds., Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021, transcript Verlag, June 2021

- The theme of this edition is "Beyond Borders."

Marcia C. Inhorn & Lucia Volk, eds., Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, Berghahn Books, June 2021

New Books: June 2021

June 2021:

Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock & Bassam Abu Hamad, eds., Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities, Routledge, June 2021

Anne Sophie Krossa, Analysing Society in a Global Context: Empirical Studies on Sociation Processes of Volunteers and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, June 2021

Alexandra Cosima Budabin & Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Elisa Pascucci, eds., Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders, Routledge, June 2021

Daniel Bertrand Monk & Andrew Herscher, The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief, Univ. of Minnesota Press, June 2021

Marry-Anne Karlsen, Migration Control and Access to Welfare: The Precarious Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Norway, Routledge, June 2021 

Erling Lorentzen Sogge, The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon: A Political History of the 'Ayn al-Hilwe Camp, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Giles Merritt, People Power: Why We Need More Migrants, I.B. Tauris, June 2021

Hasret Çomak, Burak Şakir Şeker, Mehlika Özlem Ultan, Yaprak Civelek & Çağla Arslan Bozkuş, eds., Refugee Crisis in International Policy, vol. 1: Legal and Social Statuses of Refugees, Transnational Press London, June 2021 

Andrejs Plakans, The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West after World War II, Brill, June 2021

May 2021:

Jason A. Dzubow, Asylumist: How to Seek Asylum in the United States and Keep Your Sanity, Palmyra Books, May 2021

Vinzenz Kratzer, Governmental Migration Research in Germany: Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, transcript Verlag, May 2021

Mo Yee Lee, ed., Immigrant and Refugee Youth and Families: Research and Practice, Routledge, May 2021

Legal texts:

Laura Hughes-Gerber, Diplomatic Asylum: Exploring a Legal Basis for the Practice Under General International Law, Springer, May 2021

Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster & McAdam, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2021

- Note: See also this related blog post with links to preprints of books chapters.

Open access:

Lore Van Praag, Loubna Ou-Salah, Elodie Hut & Caroline Zickgraf, Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes, Springer, May 2021

Alice Massari, Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, Springer, May 2021

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 Books: May 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

April 2021:

Ana Ndumu, ed., Borders and Belonging: Critical Examinations of Library Approaches toward Immigrants, Library Juice Press, April 2021

Ioana Vrăbiescu, Deporting Europeans: The Racialized Mobility of Romanians in France, Lexington Books, April 2021 

Chin-Peng Chu & Sang-Chul Park, eds., Immigration Policy and Crisis in the Regional Context: Asian and European Experiences, Springer, April 2021

Catherine Dauvergne, ed., Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, May 2021 

Tómas Joensen & Ian Taylor, eds., Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: Politics and Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Open access:

Veronica Federico & Simone Baglioni, eds., Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets: A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers, Springer, May 2021

Ephraim Pörtner, Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve, transcript Verlag, May 2021

- Note: The complete text will be made available as of 27 May 2021.

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe: Debating Solidarity Across Borders, Routledge, April 2021 

Jussi S. Jauhiainen & Miriam Tedeschi, Undocumented Migrants and Their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland, Springer, May 2021 

Legal text:

Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Philip G. Schrag, The End of Asylum, Georgetown Univ. Press, May 2021

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 1

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

April 2021:

Amanda C. Demmer, After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

James Souter, Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Gabriele Proglio, Camilla Hawthorne, Ida Danewid, P. Khalil Saucier, Giuseppe Grimaldi, Angelica Pesarini, Timothy Raeymaekers, Giulia Grechi & Vivian Gerrand, eds., The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

Parthiban Muniandy, Ghost Lives of the Pendatang: Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Urban Malaysia, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021

- "[A]n ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia."

Emma Carmel, Katharina Lenner & Regine Paul, eds., Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar, April 2021

Alistair D. B. Cook & Lina Gong, eds., Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Policy and Practice, Springer, April 2021

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas, eds., Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, Routledge, April 2021 

Elżbieta Goździak, International Migration: A Quick Immersion, Tibidabo Publishing, April 2021

Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer & Paul Weindling, eds., Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800, Manchester Univ. Press, April 2021

Domenico Sergi, Museums, Refugees and Communities, Routledge, April 2021

Romola Adeola, ed., National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: Beyond the Rhetoric, Springer, April 2021

Cristina Astier & Ander Errasti, eds., Refugees' Europe: Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2021

Becky Taylor, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele & Christian Lahusen, Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe, Routledge, April 2021

Nicholas R. Micinski, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees, Routledge, April 2021

New Books: April 2021 - Pt. 2

Part 1 of this post is available here.

March 2021:

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

Laura Westra, ed., Forced Migrations and Refugees in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region, Nova Publishers, March 2021

Celeste Cedillo González & Julieta Espín Ocampo, eds., Human Displacement from a Global South Perspective: Migration Dynamics in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Stephen M. Croucher, Flora Galy-Badenas, Shawn M. Condon, Maria Sharapan & Margareta Salonen, Migration and Media in Finland: Perceptions and Depictions of Natives, Immigrants and Refugees, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2021

Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis', Manchester Univ. Press, March 2021

Onur Yamaner, Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey: Intersectional Marginalization, Verlag Barbara Budrich, March 2021

Zoe Holman, Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe, Melbourne Univ. Press, March 2021

Legal Text:

Liv Feijen, The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021

Open Access:

Sergio Carrera & Andrew Geddes, eds., The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights, European Univ. Institute, March 2021

Birgit Meyer & Peter van der Veer, eds., Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories, Bloomsbury, March 2021

Gail Womersley, Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations: A Sociocultural Exploration, Springer, 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:

Antje Ellermann, The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 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

Annika Wilmers & Sieglinde Jornitz, eds., International Perspectives on School Settings, Education Policy and Digital Strategies: A Transatlantic Discourse in Education Research, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Feb. 2021

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

Chigozie Nnebedum, Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Euro-African Problem in the 21st Century, Globethics.net, Feb. 2021

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