02 August 2021

New Books: August 2021 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books published in August 2021 and new legal and open access texts, while part 2 lists new books published in July 2021 

August 2021:



Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Sarah Nell-Müller & Roland Happ, eds., Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education: Opening Universities for Refugees, Springer, Aug. 2021

Leanne Weber & Claudia Tazreiter, eds., Handbook of Migration and Global Justice, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2021

Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza & Gabriela Mezzanotti, eds., Latin America and Refugee Protection: Regimes, Logics and Challenges, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2021

Lydia Morris, The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration: Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain, ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2021

Samantha Seeley, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & Univ. of North Carolina Press, Aug. 2021

Vinh Nguyen & Thy Phu, eds., Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, Univ. of Toronto Press, Aug. 2021


Legal text:


Open access:

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée & Kristian Bjørkdahl, eds., Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, July 2021

New Books: August 2021 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

July 2021: 

 Mondira Dutta, Disaster and Human Trafficking, Springer, July 2021



Gottfried Schweiger, ed., Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory, Springer, July 2021 


Austin Sarat & Devyani Prabhat, eds., Privatisation of Migration Control: Power without Accountability?, Emerald Publishing, July 2021

Yvonne Vissing & Sofia Leitão, eds., The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors: Perspectives and Case Studies on Migrant Children, Springer, July 2021

Monish Bhatia & Victoria Canning, eds., Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence, Springer, July 2021

01 July 2021

New Books: July 2021

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

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


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


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

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

Legal texts:


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."

01 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


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



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 


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:

03 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:


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


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





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:


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:


- 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

01 April 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


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

- "[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


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