Books
Care over Cruelty: American Wars, Displacement, and Refugee Resettlement. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Under Contract)
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States: War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest. New York and London: Berghahn Books, Forced Migration Series. 2023.
Journal Articles
“‘It’s Never Just One Thing:’ Complexifying Migration Concepts and Categories through Stories of Movement from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States.” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies. 18 (2), 1-17. 2024.
“Immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees: Navigating conceptual challenges through multidimensional migration space-time.” International Journal of Population Studies. 10 (4), 40–44. 2024.
“A World Waiting to Be Born: Charting a Liberatory Anti-War Praxis.” Journal of International Political Theory. 19 (3): 269-291. 2022.
“Community-Based Education Practices in Resettlement: Insights from the Blacksburg Refugee Partnership.” Migration Letters 18 (5): 2021.
“Encountering and Processing Secondary Traumatic Stress during Qualitative Interviews with Displaced Iraqis: A Research Note.“ Qualitative Research 21 (2). 2021.
“‘The Country is Completely Destroyed:’ Toward a National Project of Recognition, Reparation, and Reconciliation for the American War against Iraq.” Peace Studies Journal 13 (2). 2020.
“Responsibility to Redress: Global Harm, Obligation and the Afghan and Iraqi Refugee Crises.” SPECTRA: The Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives 5 (2). 2016.
Book Chapters
“War in Yemen (2015-Present).” In Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society, Jayson Funke (lead editor), Waquar Ahmed, Ipsita Chatterjee and Steve McCauley. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 2025.
“Cultivating Radical Imagination: Envisioning Alternatives to Ascendant Reactionary Movements and Neoliberal Self-Destruction.” RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum for Deliberative Dialogue (volume III). 2023.
“Migrant Crises: The Cosmopolitan Imperative.” In RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum for Deliberative Dialogue (volume II). 2017.
“Cooperatives and an Ongoing Practice of Democracy.” In RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum for Deliberative Dialogue (volume II). 2017.
Essays
“Catastrophic Displacement Crisis in Gaza is a New Phase in More than a Century of Expulsions by Israel.” Informed Comment. 2024.
“Compassion over Cruelty: Caring Practices for Migrants, Asylum-seekers, and Refugees as Liberatory Praxis.” Displacements Blog, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Virginia Tech. 2023.
“How does it Feel to Be an Iraqi Refugee? Precarity, Uncertainty, and Resistance.” The Sociological Review Magazine. 2021.
“The Spectre Haunting North America? A Democratic Socialist Moment in the Era of Trump.” RE: Reflections and Explorations, Virginia Tech. 2017.
Dissertation
“Silent Refuge? A Critical Democratic Exploration of Voice and Authorship among Resettled Iraqis in the United States.” Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs. 2019.
Book Reviews
Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World, by Luke Fowler. Journal of Public Affairs Education. 2024. (Forthcoming)
Refugees in America: Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope, by Lee T Bycel. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture. 11 (2). 2020.
Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe,by Richard Alba and Nancy Foner. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40 (2): 479-480. 2016.
Jake Keyel 