Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.
The collection includes titles from the Forced Migration series as well as the Integration and Conflict Studies and the Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology series, among others.




Benefits for Libraries:
- Supporting libraries are guaranteed access to all 20 titles per year of support. For libraries that support all 3 years in the pledging cycle, this is a total of 60 titles.
- A valuable addition to the library’s collection with impactful research addressing urgent global issues.
- Recognition for supporting equity and sustainability in OA.
- Discount on the Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open journals collection.
Benefits for Authors:
- Allows authors to publish OA without costs which promotes diversity in scholarship.
- Offers Gold Access status which is covered under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, which offers the strongest protections for the rights of the Author.
- OA increases research impact by removing any paywalls to readership, a benefit to the wider scholarly community.
Library Supporters
Thanks to the support of a number of libraries, Berghahn Books has been able to secure 15 OA titles over the past three years. As more libraries sign on, we’ll be able to offer more books from the Migration and Development Studies collection as Open Access, with our goal being to have a total of 15 titles offered as OA over the next 3 years. Here are the current participants:
- The British Library
- Case Western Reserve University
- Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Iowa State University
- La Trobe University
- Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- New York University
- Princeton University
- Smith College
- University Library of Basel
- University of Bonn
- University of Cologne
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of East Anglia
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Melbourne
- University of South-Eastern Norway
- University of St. Gallen
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Migration and Development Studies Open Access Titles to date

Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest
Jared Keyel

This Land Is Not For Sale
Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda
Edited by Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Edited by Erol Balkan and Zümray Kutlu Tonak

Opening Up the University
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Edited by Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook, and Prem Kumar Rajaram

After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Christian Straube

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Lucia Volk

Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Edited by Franz Krause and Mark Harris

Tangled Mobilities
Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
Edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer

Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Jane Murphy Thomas

Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Edited by Letizia Bindi

Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Megan Biesele

Temple Tracks
Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
Vineeta Sinha

Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Become a participant
Pricing (2024-2026)
- Per year: $3,500 / €3,200 / £2,850
- All 3 years: $10,500 /€9,600 / £8,550
To pledge support for the Migration and Development Studies collection, please contact: Young Lee young.lee@berghahnbooks.com