Publications of Katia Bianchini

Bianchini, Katia. 2025. Comment on Anthony Good’s ‘interpretation, translation and confusion in refugee status determination procedures.’ International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-025-10306-8.

Bianchini, Katia. 2022. An illustration of anthropology's contribution to refugee law research. German Law Journal 23(7): 943–959. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2022.67.

Bianchini, Katia. 2021. The role of expert witnesses in the adjudication of religious and culture-based asylum claims in the United Kingdom: the case study of 'witchcraft' persecution. Journal of Refugee Studies 34(4): 3793–3819. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feab020.

Bianchini, Katia. 2020. Identifying the stateless in statelessness determination procedures and immigration detention in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Refugee Law 32(3): 440–471. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeaa036.

Bianchini, Katia. 2019. The case law of the European Court of Human Rights pertaining to the immigration detention of stateless persons. Asyl 2: 14–21.

Bianchini, Katia. 2017. The "stateless person" definition in selected EU member states: variations of interpretation and application. Refugee Survey Quarterly 36(3): 81–107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdx006.

Bianchini, Katia. 2017. A comparative analysis of statelessness determination procedures in 10 EU states. International Journal of Refugee Law 29(1): 42–83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eex009.

Bianchini, Katia. 2014. On the protection of stateless persons in Germany. Tilburg Law Review 19(1-2): 35–51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22112596-01902005.

Bianchini, Katia. 2011. Legal aid for asylum seekers: progress and challenges in Italy. Journal of Refugee Studies 24(2): 390–410. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fer003.

Bianchini, Katia. 2011. Unaccompanied asylum-seeker children: flawed processes and protection gaps in the UK. Forced Migration Review (37): 52–53.

Bianchini, Katia. 2010. The Mandate Refugee Program: a critical discussion. International Journal of Refugee Law 22(3): 367–378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeq026.

Bianchini, Katia and Sophie Andreetta. 2024. Witchcraft belief and practices in asylum cases: impressions from legal-anthropological collaboration. In: Marie-Claire Foblets, Maria Sapignoli, and Brian Donahoe (eds.). Anthropological expertise and legal practice: in conversation. Law and Anthropology Series. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 153–163.

Bianchini, Katia. 2022. Legal and anthropological approaches to international refugee law. In: Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.). The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 792–807.

Bianchini, Katia. 2020. Humanitarian admission to Italy through humanitarian visas and corridors. In: Marie-Claire Foblets and Luc Leboeuf (eds.). Humanitarian admission to Europe: the law between promises and constraints. Schriften zum Migrationsrecht 30. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 157–197.

Bianchini, Katia. 2012. The United Kingdom's implementation of the EU asylum-seekers' Reception Directive. In: Sonia Morano-Foadi and Micaela Malena (eds.). Integration for third-country nationals in the European Union: the equality challenge. 1. ed. Cheltenham; Northampton: Elgar, pp. 91–106.

Bianchini, Katia. 2020. En route to protection: a literature review of key issues in refugee law. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 203. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Bianchini, Katia. 2016. Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the United Kingdom. ENS Country Studies. London: European Network on Statelessness.

Bianchini, Katia. 2017. Nationality and statelessness in the international law of refugee status by Eric Fripp. Oxford; Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2016. Pp. 362. International standards on nationality law: texts, cases and materials by Gerard-René de Groot and Olivier Willem Vonk. Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2016. Pp. 756. Journal of Refugee Studies 30(1): 153–156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fex012.

Bianchini, Katia. 2009. Nationality matters: statelessness under international law by Laura van Waas. Antwerp; Oxford; Portland: Intersentia, 2008. Pp. 504. Journal of Refugee Studies 22(4): 530–532. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fep034.

Bianchini, Katia. 2024. Responses to sea migration and the Rule of Law: insights from Italy. Studies in International Law. Oxford; London; New York; New Dehli; Sydney: Hart.

Bianchini, Katia. 2018. Protecting stateless persons: the implementation of the convention relating to the status of stateless persons across EU states. 1. ed. International Refugee Law Series 11. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff.