Professor Cathy McIlwaine has a BA (Geography) and MA (Latin American Studies) from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining King's, Cathy held positions in the Geography Departments of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1994-5) and at Queen Mary University of London (1995-2017). She also worked at the World Bank as a Social Scientist Research Project Manager (1-year secondment) in Washington DC(1998-9).
Cathy has served or is currently serving as a trustee for the following organisations: Carila Latin American Welfare Group (2006-9), Children Change Colombia (2010-17), Latin Elephant (2014-present) and the Latin American Bureau (2019-present). She is also an advisory board member of the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (2017-present) and is an Advisory Council Member for the Institute of Latin American Studies, London (2013-present). Cathy has served or is currently serving as a trustee for the following organisations: Carila Latin American Welfare Group (2006-9), Children Change Colombia (2010-17), Latin Elephant (2014-present) and the Latin America Bureau (2019-present). She is also an advisory board member of the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (2017-present).
Cathy also works with arts and theatre organisations, such as the People’s Palace Projects, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival, Footprint Productions, and Migrants in Action. She has collaboratively produced (with Gaël le Cornec) a verbatim theatre play (Efêmera), a short film based on this (Ana), a sound-performance installation (Believe), and a multi-media video installation We Still Fight in the Dark, all based on her research on violence against women and girls. She co-coordinates the King's Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network (with Jelke Boesten and Rachel Kerr).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4703 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6528-599X |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-mcilwaine-7520a943?originalSubdomain=uk/ | |
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
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Qualitative research
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King's College London
Other, London, United Kingdom
Professor. Vice Dean Research
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Feminized precarity among onward migrants in Europe: reflections from Latin Americans in London
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 19 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The Gendering of Political and Civic Participation among Colombian Migrants in London
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine, Anastasia Bermúdez |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ambivalent citizenship and extraterritorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid
| Authors | CATHY McILWAINE, ANASTASIA BERMUDEZ |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Introduction: towards migration-violence creative pathways
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine, Megan Ryburn |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Cultural consumption and the performing arts among Latin Americans in London
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine, Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, ... |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Men on the move: narratives of migration and work among low-paid migrant men in London
| Authors | Kavita Datta, Cathy McIlwaine, Joanna Herbert, ... |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro
| Authors | Cathy McIlwaine, Miriam Krenzinger, Moniza Rizzini Ansari, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
Embodied counter-mapping of gendered urban violence and resistance across body-community–city territories in Rio de Janeiro
| Authors | Rosa dos Ventos Lopes Heimer, Cathy McIlwaine, Moniza Rizzini Ansari, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Urban Geography |