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. View provisional title list 2024-2026
• 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 open access titles over the past three years. The number of titles we are able to make open access in the next 3 years is dependent on the number of libraries that participate in the initiative. To pledge support, contact us.

Here are the current participants:

• Berlin State Library
• Case Western Reserve University
• Coastal Carolina University
• Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Indiana University - Bloomington
• Iowa State University
• La Trobe University
• Massachussetts Institute of Technology
• Max Planck Digital Library
• Smith College
• University College London
• University of Bonn
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Chicago
• University of Cologne
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of East Anglia
• University of Mainz
• University of Manchester
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• University of St. Gallen
• Vassar College
• Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Migration and Development Studies Collection Titles to date

Migration and Welfare AusterityMobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in KyrgyzstanAksana IsmailbekovaWorking the Dutch Asylum ApparatusAn Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State PowerMaja HertoghsFriendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New GuineaRobert L. WelschWriting on the MoveForm, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel WritingEdited by Samia Ounoughi and Tim HanniganEveryday InvisibilityThe Lives of African Women in GreeceViki Zaphiriou-ZarifiGeorgian Women on the MoveMigration to Greece in Times of CrisisWeronika ZmiejewskiTransnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming WorldEdited by Vytis Čiubrinskas and Nina Glick SchillerLife as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern IrelandAn Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and PlacemakingAmanda J. LubitGroundwater PoliticsAdvanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance Sally BabidgeMarket and MonasteryCapitalism in Manangi Trade DiasporaPrista RatanapruckColonial Intervention and Destabilization of African IdentitiesContours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan AfricaObed Mfum-MensahBelonging in Unhomely HomelandsInternal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs Marija GrujićDesert EntanglementsThe Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western SaharaGabriele Volpato(Un)Settling PlaceDiverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the MoveEdited by Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara GonzálezFrontier EthnographiesDeconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and PakistanEdited by Nafay Choudhury and Annika SchmedingThe Hidden MinorityPerceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian BorderlandHelena JermanCalibrated EngagementChronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of MyanmarStéphen HuardVoices in the DarkThe Energy Lives of RefugeesSarah Rosenberg-JansenUnexpected EncountersMigrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean Francesco ViettiGoverning Migration Through PaperworkLegitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and DifferentiationEdited by Sophie Andreetta and Lisa Marie BorrelliThe State OtherwiseGreen Space, Citizenship and Advocating for the Public in BeirutAlice StefanelliMigration, Dislocation and Movement on ScreenEdited by Ruxandra TrandafoiuUrban DisplacementSyria's Refugees in the Middle EastEdited by Are John Knudsen & Sarah A. TobinEmbodying ExchangeMateriality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean CommerceJuliane MüllerFragile FuturesAmbiguities of Care in Burkina FasoHelle SamuelsenHouses TransformedAnthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and BuildingEdited by Jonathan Alderman and Rosalie StolzBreathing HeartsSufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in GermanyNasima SelimEnacted RelationsPerforming Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous CommunityFranca TamisariHumanitarian Shame and RedemptionNorwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in GreeceHeidi MogstadOther BordersHistory, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and ItalySabrina Tosi CambiniThe UNHCR and the Afghan CrisisThe Making of the International Refugee RegimeGiulia ScalettarisAssembling FinancialisationLocal Actors and the Making of Agricultural InvestmentZannie LangfordForeigners in Their Own CountryIdentity and Rejection in France Lawrence M. MartinTranslocal Care across Kosovo’s BordersReconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational LinesCarolin Leutloff-GranditsMadness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, IndiaNarratives from a Psychiatric HospitalAnnika StraussSilences and Divided MemoriesThe Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian SocietyKatja Hrobat VirlogetTemple TracksLabour, Piety and Railway Construction in AsiaVineeta SinhaOnce Upon a Time is NowA Kalahari MemoirMegan BieseleCreation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South AmericaAnthropological PerspectivesEdited by Ernst Halbmayer and Anne GoletzHeirs of the Greek CatastropheThe Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in PiraeusRenée HirschonServants of CulturePaternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914Ambika NatarajanExchange and Markets in Early Economic DevelopmentInformal Economy in the Three New GuineasJohn D. ConroyThings of the HouseMaterial Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to PortugalMarta Vilar RosalesFinding Home in EuropeChronicles of Global MigrantsEdited by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara BonfantiResettled Iraqi Refugees in the United StatesWar, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and ProtestJared KeyelContinental EncampmentGenealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and EuropeEdited by Are John Knudsen and Kjersti G. BergThis Land Is Not For SaleTrust and Transitions in Northern UgandaEdited by Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds WhyteThe Marseille MosaicA Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of CulturesEdited by Mark Ingram and Kathryn KleppingerCosmopolitan RefugeesSomali Migrant Women in Nairobi and JohannesburgNereida Ripero-MuñizFrom Missionaries to Main StreetThe Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United StatesDaniel GilhoolyA Magpie’s TaleEthnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western MongoliaAnna Odland PortischPacific SpacesTranslations and TransmutationsEdited by A.-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, and Albert L. RefitiӦmie Sex AffiliationA Papuan NatureMarta RohatynskyjDynamics of Identification and ConflictAnthropological EncountersEdited by Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert and John R. EidsonFrancophone Migrations, French Islam and WellbeingThe Soninké Foyer in ParisDafne AccoroniTangled MobilitiesPlaces, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian MigrationEdited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-FarrerMaking Things HappenCommunity Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in PakistanJane Murphy ThomasMigration and HealthChallenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and PolicyEdited by Nadia El-Shaarawi and Stéphanie LarchanchéFood ConnectionsProduction, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration Maria AbranchesGender, Power, and Non-GovernanceIs Female to Male as NGO Is to State?Edited by Andria D. Timmer and Elizabeth WirtzGrazing CommunitiesPastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage FrictionsEdited by Letizia BindiFire on the IslandFear, Hope and a Christian Revival in VanuatuTom BratrudAfrican Political Systems RevisitedChanging Perspectives on Statehood and PowerEdited by Aleksandar Bošković and Günther SchleeThe Precarity of MasculinityFootball, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in CameroonUroš KovačA New African ElitePlace in the Making of a Bridge GenerationDeborah PellowRefugees on the MoveCrisis and Response in Turkey and EuropeEdited by Erol Balkan and Zümray Kutlu TonakOpening Up the UniversityTeaching and Learning with Refugees Edited by Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook, and Prem Kumar RajaramDurable SolutionsChallenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia Carolin FunkeRepresenting 21st-Century Migration in EuropePerforming Borders, Identities and Texts Edited by Nelson González Ortega and Ana Belén Martínez GarcíaEntrepreneurs of IdentityThe Islamic State’s Symbolic RepertoireChristoph GüntherMigration in the Making of the Gulf SpaceSocial, Political, and Cultural DimensionsEdited by Antia Mato Bouzas and Lorenzo CasiniMediated LivesWaiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan Mirjam TwigtWe are All Africans HereRace, Mobilities and West Africans in EuropeKristín LoftsdóttirRethinking Internal DisplacementGeo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief IndustryFrederick LakerOutsidersMemories of Migration to and from North KoreaMarkus BellCattle PoeticsHow Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia Jean-Baptiste EczetLatin America and Refugee ProtectionRegimes, Logics, and ChallengesEdited by Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza and Gabriela Mezzanotti
Foreword by James C. Hathaway
Afterword by Carolina MoulinContemporary MegaprojectsOrganization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st CenturyEdited by Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan BrockingtonConstructing RiskDisaster, Development, and the Built EnvironmentStephen O. BenderAfter Corporate PaternalismMaterial Renovation and Social Change in Times of RuinationChristian StraubeUn-Settling Middle Eastern RefugeesRegimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North AmericaEdited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Lucia VolkDelta LifeExploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the SeaEdited by Franz Krause and Mark HarrisNGOs and Lifeworlds in AfricaTransdisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by Melina C. Kalfelis and Kathrin Knodel
Foreword by Aram Ziai
Afterword by Hubertus BüschelAuthenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island EncountersNew Lives of Old ImaginariesEdited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft
Afterword by Margaret JollyIn-Betweenness in Greater KhartoumSpaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to RevolutionEdited by Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri, and Idris Salim El-HassanReligion and PrideHindus in Search of Recognition in La RéunionNatalie LangLands of the FutureAnthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern AfricaEdited by Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G. Galaty and Günther SchleeEmbodying BordersA Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local PoliciesEdited by Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliariello, and Ana Cristina Vargas

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Pricing (2026-2029)

• 1 yr pricing: $3,750 / £3,120/ €3,435 for 2026
• 3 yr pricing: $10,465/ £8,720 / €9,600*

To pledge support for the Migration and Development Studies collection, please contact: Young Lee young.lee@berghahnbooks.com