Professor Brad K. Blitz


Professor Brad K. Blitz
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Kingston University London
Penrhyn Road, 
Kingston upon Thames, 
Surrey KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
 

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b.blitz@kingston.ac.uk

Publications


 

Children Affected by Migration in South Asia, UNICEF, 95 pages (2012).

 

‘Contest and Reconstruction: Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (with Roger Zetter) (submitted, anticipated publication 2011)           

 

‘Statelessness and Environmental Induced Displacement: Future Scenarios of De-territorialization Rescue and Recovery Examined’, Mobilities, 6/3, (2011), pp. 433-450.


‘Evaluating Transitions: Human Rights and Qualitative Democracy in East/Central Europe’, Europe-Asia Studies 63/9, (2011) pp.1745-1770. 


‘Fractured Lives and Grim Expectations: Freedom of Movement and the Downgrading of Status in the Italian University System,’ Bulletin of Italian Politics 2/2 (in press).

 

‘Stateless by Any Other Name: Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers in The United Kingdom, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (First author with Miguel Otero-Iglesias) 37(5) (published online December 2010/print March 2011), pp. 657-673.

 

Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, (Published February 2011; 334 pages ISBN 9780521191937). (Co-authored and co-edited with Caroline Sawyer).

 

Statelessness and Citizenship: A Comparative Study on the Benefits of Nationality, Edward Elgar Publishing, (Published January 2011; 244 pages; ISBN 978 1 84980 067 9). (Co-authored and co-edited with Maureen Lynch).

 

‘Climate Change, Location Security and Migration’ in Asia-Pacific Global Development Report on Climate Change, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (in progress, 2011).

 

‘Neither Seen Nor Heard: Compound Deprivation Among Stateless Children in Jacqueline Bhahba (ed.), Children Without a State: The Scope of Child Statelessness in the 21st Century, MIT Press, 2011.

 

‘Policy Responses and Global Discourses on the Rights of Non-Citizens and Stateless People’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.),Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press 2011, pp. 108-138.

 

 ‘Statelessness in the European Union’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.), Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (with Caroline Sawyer), pp. 1-21.

 

 ‘De facto Statelessness in the United Kingdom’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.), Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (with Caroline Sawyer), pp. 160-194.

 

‘Research Design and Methodology’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.), Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (with Caroline Sawyer), pp. 139 – 159.

 

‘Analysis: the Practical and Legal Realities of Statelessness in the European Union’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.), Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (with Caroline Sawyer), (with Caroline Sawyer), pp. 281-305.

 

‘Conclusions’ in Caroline Sawyer and Brad K. Blitz (eds.), Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted,Cambridge University Press, 2011 (with Caroline Sawyer), pp. 306-311.

 

 ‘Statelessness and the Deprivation of Nationality’ in Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch (eds.), Statelessness and Citizenship: A Comparative Study on the Benefits of Nationality, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011 (with Maureen Lynch), pp. 1-22.

 

‘Summary and Conclusions’ in Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch (eds.), Statelessness and Citizenship: A Comparative Study on the Benefits of Nationality, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011 (with Maureen Lynch), pp. 194-208.

 

Responding to Systemic Human Rights Violations: An Analysis of 'Pilot Judgments' of the European Court of Human Rights and their Impact at National Level, Intersentia. (Published March 2010; 206 pages; ISBN 978-94-000-0041-4) (Co-authored with Phil Leach, Helen Hardman, and Svetlana Stephenson).

 

‘Highly Skilled Migration,’ in The International Studies Encyclopedia, Robert A. Denemark (ed.), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 3292-3320.  (Also, published in International Studies On-Line).

 

‘Rescue for the Rohingya’, The World Today, May 2010, pp. 4-5.

 

Statelessness and the Benefits of Citizenship: A Comparative Study, Geneva Academy for International and Humanitarian Law and International Observatory on Statelessness. (Co-authored with Maureen Lynch) (Published July 2009; 126 pages; ISBN 978-0-9563275-0-5/ISBN 978-0-9563275-1-2).

 

‘Putting an End to Statelessness: International Advocacy Campaigns and Policy Development’, Forced Migration Review 32 (2009), pp. 25-26.

 

 ‘Libyan Nationals in The United Kingdom: Geo-Political Considerations and Trends in Asylum and Return’ in International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 10/2 (2009), pp. 106-127.   

 

‘Reflection Group - Planning For The Future: European Migration Policy’, Contribution 11 by Kalypso Nicolaidis and Brad K. Blitz, Reflection Group of the European Council, September 19, 2009, pp. 41.

 

‘Statelessness, Protection and Equality’, UK Department of International Development and University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre Policy Brief, September, 2009, pp. 62. Available at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCPB3-Statelessness.pdf.

 

 ‘Statelessness: The Global Problem’ in Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch (eds.), Statelessness and the Benefits of Citizenship: A Comparative Study, Geneva Academy for International and Humanitarian Law and International Observatory on Statelessness, 2009, pp. 4-18.

 

 ‘Summary and Conclusions’ in Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch (eds.) Statelessness and the Benefits of Citizenship: A Comparative Study. Geneva Academy for International and Humanitarian Law and International Observatory on Statelessness, 2009, pp. 94-103.

 

‘Post-Socialist Transformation, Penal Reform and Justice Sector Transition in Albania’, Journal of South East European and Black Sea Studies, 8/4 (2008), pp. 345-364.

 

‘Libyan Nationals in the United Kingdom:  Geo-Political Considerations and Trends in Asylum and Return’ WP 07-58, COMPAS, University of Oxford, 2007, pp. 29. Available at: http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/files/pdfs/WP0758%20Brad%20Blitz.pdf

 

‘Democratic Development, Judicial Reform and the Serbian Question in Croatia’, Human Rights Review, 9/1(2007), pp. 123-135.

 

‘Decentralisation, Citizenship and Mobility: Residency Restrictions and Skilled Migration in Moscow, Citizenship Studies, 11/4 (2007), pp. 381-402.

 

‘Minorities and the Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship’, Report for the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 2007, pp. 53.

 

‘Pilot Study for The European Committee for The Prevention of Torture (CPT) -- Report on Implementation of the CPT’s Recommendations in Albania, Moldova and Georgia’, Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, (with Bill Bowring, Douwe Korff, Philip Leach) 7 July 2007, pp. 114.

 

‘Statelessness and the Social (De)Construction of Citizenship: Political Restructuring and Ethnic Discrimination In Slovenia’, Journal of Human Rights, 5/4 (2006), pp. 1-27.

 

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation, Cambridge University Press. (Editor and co-author). (Published October 2006; 302 pages; ISBN-10: 0521677734; ISBN-10: 0521860423).

 

‘New Beginnings? Refugee Returns and Post Conflict Integration in the Former Yugoslavia’, in Brad K. Blitz (ed.), War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 239-266.

 

 ‘War and Change’, in Brad K. Blitz (ed.),War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 1-12.

 

‘Croatia – Europe Beckons’, The World Today 62(4) (May 2006), pp. 26-27.

 

‘Refugee Returns, Civic Differentiation and Minority Rights in Croatia 1991-2004’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 18/3 (2005), pp. 362-386. (Nominated for the Lisa Gilad Award for the best article published by an author under the age of 40 by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration).

 

 ‘“Brain Circulation”, the Spanish Medical Profession and International Recruitment in the United Kingdom’, Journal of European Social Policy, 15/4 (2005), pp. 363-379.

 

 ‘Non-Voluntary Return? The Politics of Return to Afghanistan’, Political Studies, 53/1 (2005), pp.182-200 (First author with Rosemary Sales and Lisa Marzano).

 

‘Review of Key Human Rights Issues in Serbia and Montenegro during 2003 and Recommendations for OMiSaM’s 2004 Human Rights Agenda’, Report  for Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, (with Bill Bowring, Douwe Korff, Philip Leach), March 2004, pp. 1-99.

 

‘Refugee Returns in Croatia: Contradictions and Reform’, Politics, 23/3 (2003), pp. 181-191. 

‘A Preliminary Exploration of Afghan Nationals in the UK; their Professional Capacity and Views on Return’, Home Office, (First author with Rosemary Sales and Liza Marzano), 2003, pp. 1-70.

 

‘From Monnet to Delors: Educational Cooperation in the European Union’, Contemporary European History, 12/12 (2003), pp. 197-212.

 

‘Asylum-Seekers: Unwelcome Return’, The World Today 59(4) (April 2003), pp. 20-21 (First author with Rosemary Sales).

 

 ‘Political Integration and Economic Reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Forum Bosnae, 11/01 (2001), pp. 215-229. 

 

‘Croatia Country Annex’ - Report for DFID and Conflict Prevention Fund’s Safety, Security and Access to Justice in the Balkans Programme, (with Tony Lavender and Zoran Pajic) August 2001.

 

‘Bosnia Country Annex’ - Report for DFID and Conflict Prevention Fund’s Safety, Security and Access to Justice in the Balkans Programme (with David Mellish and Zoran Pajic), August 2001.

 

‘Regional Co-operation and State-Building: a Manageable Recipe?’ in Mladen Grbin and Carole Hodge (eds.), Sigurnost i stabilnost u jugoistocnoj Europi [Security and Stability in South Eastern Europe] Durieux, Zagreb, 2000.

 

‘Professional Mobility and the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications in the European Union:Two Institutional Approaches,’ Comparative Education Review, 43/3 (1999), pp. 311-331. 

 

‘The Resistant Guild: Institutional Protectionism and Freedom of Movement in the Italian University System,’ Journal of South European Society and Politics, 4/1 (1999), pp. 27.

 

‘Cycles of Violence: End-Games and International Mediation in Bosnia and Kosovo’ Yale International Forum, (1999 Spring) 1/2, pp. 42-52 (First author with John Tillinghast).

 

‘Balkan Returns: An Overview of Refugee Returns and Minority Repatriation’, United States Institute of Peace Special Report, 1999, pp. 1-11. Available at: http://www.usip.org/resources/balkan-returns-overview-refugee-returns-and-minority-repatriation

 

International Cooperation and the Limits of Educational Integration in the European Union.  Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University, 1997 (World Cat: 81613098).

 

‘Negotiating Ethnic and Racial Differences’, in Jan DeGroof and Jan Fiers (eds.), The Legal Status of Minorities in Education, ACCO, Netherlands, 1997, pp. 157-163.

 

‘Idle Curiosity and the Production of Useless Knowledge: Academic Responses to Genocide,’ in Stjepan Mestrovic (ed.), The Conceit of Innocence. Texas A and M University Press, 1997, pp. 158-180.

 

‘Serbia's War Lobby: Diaspora Groups and Western Elites’, in Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Mestrovic (eds.), This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia. New York University, 2006, pp. 187-243.

 

‘Destroying Bosnia: A Clash of Values not Civilizations’, in Cornell Political Forum, IX/3 (1995), pp. 10-12.