01 October 2025

New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in October 2025, while Part 2 lists additional September 2025 titles, as well as new legal and open access texts.

October 2025:



Eram Alam, The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Oct. 2025


Mirna Carranza, The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home, Lived Places Publishing, Oct. 2025

Sarah Scott Ford, Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region: Legal Sociology and Human Rights, Bristol Univ. Press, Oct. 2025


Leila Hudson, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced, Syracuse Univ. Press, Oct. 2025

Loretta E. Bass, ed., Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration Around the World, Emerald Publishing, Oct. 2025
- Note: One chapter is open access.


New Books: October 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

September 2025:

Mohammad Zaman, Anatomy of Resettlement: Ethnographic Accounts and Stories in Retrospect, Bloomsbury Academic, Sept. 2025

Itır Aladağ Görentaş, Marie Mallet-Garcia, Jérémy Mandin, Elsa Mescoli & Buket Özdemir Dal, eds., Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights: Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, Sept. 2025

Hassan Mizori, Interpreting in Asylum Procedures: Dialogist Interpretation, Multilingual Matters, Sept. 2025

Legal texts:



Open access:

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home Following Conflict and Displacement, Berghahn Books, Sept. 2025

Maja Janmyr, Özlem Gürakar Skribeland, and Arjumand Bano Kazmi, eds., Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2025

Lucas Oesch & Léa Lemaire, eds., Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives, Bristol Univ. Press, Nov. 2025

01 September 2025

New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in September 2025 along with additional August 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal, reference and open access texts. 

September 2025:



Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe, Fernwood Publishing, Sept. 2025 

Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch & Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, Sept. 2025


August 2025:

Małgorzata Dziekońska & Kamil Luczaj, eds., Assistance to Ukrainian War Refugees in Central Europe (2022-2024)Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli & Thalita Franciely de Melo Silva, eds., Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legal and Policy Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025

Sami Alanne, Music, Music Therapy and Refugees: Aspects of Trauma, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025


New Books: September 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:

Ruth Rubio Marín, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Benedita Menezes Queiroz & Fulvia Staiano, eds., Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2025
Reference book:

Yen Le Espiritu, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, 1st ed., SAGE Publications, Sept. 2025

Open access:


Susan Bibler Coutin, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, Univ. of California, Press, Aug. 2025



Regina Polak, Aybiçe Tosun & Ansgar Jödicke, eds., Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Brill/Schoningh, Aug. 2025


Harald Bauder & Mary Boatemaa Setrana, eds., Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection, 2 vols., Springer, Aug. 2025

01 August 2025

New Books: August 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in August 2025 as well as additional July 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

August 2025:

Stephen Mamula & Eva Sutton, Cambodian Journeys: Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge, Berghahn Books, Aug. 2025



Ailbhe Kenny, Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music, Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025


Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto & Diego Chaves-González, On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Stanford Univ. Press, Aug. 2025



Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, The Refugee Abyss, Routledge, Aug. 2025

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Marie Jelínková, Agnieszka Bielewska & Karin Amit, eds., Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, Aug. 2025
- Note: Two chapters in this volume will be open access as of 11 Aug. 2025.

July 2025:

Eseta Tualaulelei, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley & Alison Bedford, Children’s Picture Books about Refugees and Campbell’s Monomyth, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2025


Rick Dolphijn & Nicholas Polson, eds., Food, Migration and Belonging: A Glossary for Doing Fieldwork in Contemporary Europe, Springer, July 2025 

Elizabeth Coombes, Emma Maclean & Samuel Gracida, eds., Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Trauma, Transformations and Cultural Connections, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, July 2025

New Books: August 2025 - Pt. 2

See also Part 1 of this post.

Legal texts:



Elspeth Guild, Valsamis Mitsilegas & Niovi Vavoula, Lawless Borders: The Rule of Law Deficit in European Immigration Control, Aug. 2025

Dáire McCormack-George, Regulating Migrant Integration in Europe: The Case of Skills, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2025

Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore, Richard A. Boswell & Lindsay M. Harris, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, 6th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Aug. 2025

Open access:

Brian Callan, Pearson Nkhoma & Naomi Thompson, eds., Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025

Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher & Alison Phipps, eds., A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, Multilingual Matters, Aug. 2025


01 July 2025

New Books: July 2025 - Pt. 1

Part 1 highlights new books due out in July 2025 as well as additional June 2025 titles, while Part 2 lists new legal and open access texts.

July 2025:


Thomas A. Krainz, A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West, July 2025, Univ. of Nebraska Press, July 2025

S. Irudaya Rajan, ed., Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025 

Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter & Thabani Mutambasere, Horizontal Development: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid, Bristol Univ. Press, July 2025



June 2025:


Didier Fassin & Anne-Claire Defossez, Exile: Chronicle of the Border, Polity Books, June 2025


Dale Dominey-Howes, Ashleigh Rushton, William Leonard, Marcilyn Cianfarani, Lisa Overton & Haorui Wu, eds., Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises, Springer, June 2025