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 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 Open Access Titles to date

Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Rohatynskyj, M.

We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.

Voices in the Dark
The Energy Lives of Refugees
Rosenberg-Jansen, S.

Urban Displacement
Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)

The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis
The Making of the International Refugee Regime
Scalettaris, G.

Unexpected Encounters
Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean
Vietti, F.

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)

This Land Is Not For Sale
Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda
Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

Things of the House
Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal
Rosales, M. V.

Temple Tracks
Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
Sinha, V.

Tangled Mobilities
Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Silences and Divided Memories
The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society
Virloget, K. H.

Servants of Culture
Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Natarajan, A.

Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.

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

Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe
Performing Borders, Identities and Texts
González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)

Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.

Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Kovač, U.

Pacific Spaces
Translations and Transmutations
Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.

Other Borders
History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy
Tosi Cambini, S.

Opening Up the University
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)

Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.

NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)

A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Pellow, D.

Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen
Trandafoiu, R. (ed)

Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)

Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.

The Marseille Mosaic
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.

Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
Strauss, A.

Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum
Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)

Humanitarian Shame and Redemption
Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece
Mogstad, H.

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe
The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Hirschon, R.

Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Bindi, L. (ed)

Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)

From Missionaries to Main Street
The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States
Gilhooly, D.

Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing
The Soninké Foyer in Paris
Accoroni, D.

Foreigners in Their Own Country
Identity and Rejection in France
Martin, L. M.

Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M.

Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Bratrud, T.

Finding Home in Europe
Chronicles of Global Migrants
Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)

Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development
Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas
Conroy, J. D.

Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.

Embodying Borders
A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies
Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)

Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Anthropological Encounters
Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Durable Solutions
Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Funke, C.

Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Anthropological Perspectives
Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

Cosmopolitan Refugees
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Ripero-Muñiz, N.

Continental Encampment
Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)

Contemporary Megaprojects
Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century
Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)

Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.

Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.

Calibrated Engagement
Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar
Huard, S.

Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Selim, N.

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)

Assembling Financialisation
Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment
Langford, Z.

After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.

African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

A Magpie’s Tale
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
Portisch, A. O.

(Un)Settling Place
Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move
Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)
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Pricing (2025-2027)
- 1 yr pricing: $3,675 / £3,060 / €3,370 for 2025
- 3 yr pricing: $10,260 / £8,550 / €9,410*
To pledge support for the Migration and Development Studies collection, please contact: Young Lee young.lee@berghahnbooks.com