Publications

Books

McIlwaine, C., Heritage, P., Krenzinger, M., Sousa Silva, E. and Evans, Y. (2024, forthcoming) Gendered urban violence among Brazilians: painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London, Manchester University Press: Manchester.

Women Resisting Violence Collective (2022) Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America, Practical Action/Latin America Bureau: Rugby/London.

Krenzinger, M, Sousa Silva, E, McIlwaine, C and Heritage, P (eds) (2018) Dores que Libertam: Falas de Mulheres das Favelas sa Mare, no Rio de Janeiro sobre Violencias, Appris Editora, Rio de Janeiro.

Chant, S, and McIlwaine, C. (2016) Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: An Anatomy of a Feminised Urban Future, Routledge, London.

McIlwaine, C. (2011) (ed) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Wills, J; Datta, K; Evans, Y; Herbert, J; May, J; McIlwaine, C. (2010) Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour, Pluto, London.

 Chant, S, and McIlwaine, C. (2009) Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: an Introduction to the Global South, Edward Elgar, London.

Moser, C, and McIlwaine, C. (2004) Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala, Routledge: London.

McIlwaine, C. and Willis, K (eds) (2002) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Prentice Hall: Harlow.

Moser, C, and McIlwaine, C. (2001) Violence in a Post-Conflict Context: Urban Poor Perceptions from Guatemala, Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Series, World Bank: Washington D.C. (also in Spanish).

Moser, C, and McIlwaine, C. (2000) Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia, Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Series, World Bank: Washington D.C. (also in Spanish).

Chant, S, and McIlwaine, C.  (1998) Three Generations, Two Genders, One World: Women and Men in a Changing Century, Zed Press: London.

Chant, S, and McIlwaine, C. (1995) Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development, Pluto Press: London (also published by Ateneo de Manila University Press: Manila). Finalist, National Book Awards for Social Science, Philippines, 1995. 

 

Journal articles

McIlwaine, C.; Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., and Sousa dos Santos, J (2023) Countermapping SDG 5 to address violence against women and girls in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of Maps, 19: 1, 2178343. 

McIlwaine, C. and Evans, Y. (2023) Navigating migrant infrastructure and gendered infrastructural violence: reflections from Brazilian Women in London, Gender, Place and Culture, 30:3, 395-417.

McIlwaine, C.; Krenzinger, M.; Rizzini Ansari, M.; Coelho Resende, N.; Gonçalves Leal, J.and Vieira, F. (2023) Building Emotional-Political Communities to Address Gendered Violence against Women and Girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Social and Cultural Geography. 24: 3–4, 563–581. 

McIlwaine, C., Krenzinger, M., Rizzini Ansari, M., Evans, Y. and Sousa Silva, E. (2021) O direito à cidade de mulheres: uma análise sobre suas limitações a partir de violências infraestruturais de gênero contra brasileiras em Londres e na Maré, Rio de Janeiro (Negotiating women’s right to the city: gender-based and infrastructural violence against Brazilian women in london and residents in Maré, Rio de Janeiro). Revista de Direito da Cidade, 13: 2, 954-981.

Krenzinger, M., Farias, P., Morgado, R. and McIlwaine, C. (2021) Violência de gênero e desigualdade racial emuma pesquisa com mulheres no território conflagrado do conjunto de favelas da Maré/Rio de Janeiro, Revista Trabalho Necessario. 19: 38, 266-289.

Pérez, N., Peluffo, S., Román-Velázquez, P., McIlwaine, C. and Latin Elephant (2020) Impact of Covid-19 forLatin American business clusters in London: Latin Elephant’s response, Journal of Latin American Communication Research, 8 (1-2), 3-9.

McIlwaine, C. (2020) Feminized precarity among onward migrants in Europe: reflections from Latin Americans in London, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43: 14.

McIlwaine, C. and Evans, Y. (2020) Urban Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in transnational perspective: reflections from Brazilian women in London, International Development Planning Review, 42:1, 93-112.

McIlwaine, C. and Valenzuela-Oblitas, I. (2019) The right to be believed: migrant women’s experiences of violence against women and girls in the ‘hostile environment’ in London, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, 67, 9-13.

McIlwaine, C. and Bunge, D. (2019) Onward precarity, mobility and migration among Latin Americans in London, Antipode, 51:2, 601-19

McIlwaine, C. and Bunge, D. (2019) Placing diversity: student attainment and progression in Geography at university in the United Kingdom, Area, 51: 3, 500-507.

McIlwaine, C. and Bermudez, A. (2015) Ambivalent citizenship and extra-territorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid, Global Networks. 15:4, 385-402.

McIlwaine, C. (2015) Legal Latins: Creating webs and practices of immigration status among Latin American migrants in London, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41: 3, 493–511.

Moser, C.O.N. and McIlwaine, C. (2015) Nuevas fronteras en los conflictos y las violencias urbanas en el siglo XXI, Medio Ambiente y Urbanización, 82:1, 69-79. 

Moser, C.O.N. and McIlwaine, C. (2014) Editorial: New frontiers in twenty-first century urban conflict and violence, Environment and Urbanization, 26:2, 331-344.

McIlwaine, C. (2014) Everyday urban violence and transnational displacement of Colombian urban migrants to London, UK, Environment and Urbanization, 26:2, 417-426.

Chant, S, and McIlwaine, C. (2013) Gender, Urban Development and the Politics of Space, E-IR.

McIlwaine, C. (2013) Urbanisation and gender-based violence: exploring the paradoxes in the Global South, Environment and Urbanization, 25:1, 65-79.

Chant, S. and McIlwaine, C. (2013) Gendered urban prosperity and women’s empowerment in 21st century cities, Camera Blu. Rivista di Studi di Genere, 7 (Le politiche del presente)

McIlwaine, C. (2012) Constructing transnational social spaces among Latin American migrants in  Europe: perspectives from the UK, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5: 2, 271-288.  

McIlwaine, C. and Bermudez, A. (2011) The gendering of political and civic participation among Colombian migrants in London, Environment and Planning A, 43, 1499-1513.

McIlwaine, C. (2010) Migrant machismos: exploring gender ideologies and practices among Latin American migrants in London from a multi-scalar perspective, Gender, Place and Culture, 17:3, 281–300.

May, J., Wills, J, Datta, K, Evans, Y, Herbert, J, and McIlwaine, C. (2010) Global cities at work: Migrant labour in low paid employment in London, The London Journal, 35:1, 85–99.

Datta, K., McIlwaine, C, Evans, Y, Herbert, J, May, J, and Wills, J (2010) A migrant ethic of care? Negotiating care and caring among migrant workers in London's low pay economy. Feminist Review, 94, 93-116.

May, J., Datta, K, Evans, Y, Herbert, J., McIlwaine, C. and Wills, J. (2010) Migrant workers and the global city, Sociology Review, 20:2, 13-16.

Wills, J., Datta, K, Evans, Y, Herbert, J, May, J, McIlwaine, C. (2009) Religion at work: The role of faith-based organisations in the London living wage campaign. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 443–461.

Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., May, J. and Wills, J. (2009) Men on the move: narratives of migration and work among low paid migrant men in London, Social and Cultural Geography, 10: 8, 853-873.

Wills, J., May, J, Datta, K, Evans, Y, Herbert, J, McIlwaine, C. (2009) London’s migrant division of labour. European Urban and Regional Studies, 16: 3, 257-271.

Herbert, J., May, J., Wills, J, Datta, K., Evans, Y. and McIlwaine, C. (2008) ‘Multicultural living?’ Experiences of everyday racism amongst Ghanaian migrants in London, European Urban and Regional Studies, 15: 2, 103-117.

McIlwaine, C. (2007) From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society: Re-framing Development Perspectives on the Non-state Sector. Geography Compass, 1: 6, 1252–1281. See also Teaching and Learning Guide (2008) Geography Compass, 2, 1-7.

Evans, Y., Wills, J, Datta, K, Herbert, J, McIlwaine, C. and May, J (2007) Subcontracting by stealth in London’s Hotels: Impacts and implications for labour organising, Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 10, 85-97.

May, J., Wills, J, Datta, K, Evans, Y, Herbert, J and McIlwaine, C (2007) Keeping London working: global cities, the British state, and London's new migrant division of labour, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 32, 151-167.

Datta, K., McIlwaine, C, Wills, J, Evans, Y, Herbert, J, and May, J (2007) The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London, International Development Planning Review, 29:1, 43-67.

Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., May, J., and Wills, J. (2007) From coping strategies to tactics: London’s low-pay economy and migrant labour, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45:2, 409-438.

Moser, C. and McIlwaine, C. (2006) Latin American urban violence as a development concern: towards a framework for violence reduction, World Development, 34:1, 89-112.

McIlwaine, C. and Datta, K. (2004) ‘Endangered youth?’ Youth, gender and sexualities in urban Botswana, Gender, Place and Culture, 11:4, 483-512.

McIlwaine, C. and Moser, C. (2004) Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: An urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala, Environment and Urbanization, 16:2, 49-62.

McIlwaine, C. and Moser, C. (2003) Poverty, violence and livelihood security in urban Colombia and Guatemala, Progress in Development Studies, 3:2, 113-130.

Williams, G. and McIlwaine, C. (2003) Guest editorial introduction: entanglements of participation: the theory and practice of attacking poverty, Progress in Development Studies, 3:2, 93-97.

McIlwaine, C. and Moser, C. (2001) Violence and Social Capital in Urban Poor Communities: Perspectives from Colombia and Guatemala.  Journal of International Development, 13:7, 965-984.

Datta, K. and McIlwaine, C. (2000) ‘Empowered leaders’? Perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa. Gender and Development, 8:3, 40-49. Also reprinted in Caroline Sweetman (ed) (2001) Women and Leadership, Oxfam: Oxford.

Moser, C. and McIlwaine, C. (1999) Participatory Urban Appraisal and its application for research on violence.  Environment and Urbanization, 11:2, 203-226.

McIlwaine, C. (1998) Contesting civil society: reflections from El Salvador. Third World Quarterly, 19:4, 651-672.

McIlwaine, C. (1997) Vulnerable or poor? A study of ethnic and gender disadvantage among Afro-Caribbeans in Limón, Costa Rica. The European Journal of Development Research, 9:2, 35-61.

McIlwaine, C. (1996) The negotiation of space among sex workers in Cebu City, the Philippines. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 17: 2, 150-164.

Chant, S. and McIlwaine, C. (1995) Gender and export-manufacturing in the Philippines: Continuity or change in female employment? The Case of Mactan Export Processing Zone. Gender Place and Culture, 2:2, 147-176 (reprinted in J. Rigg [ed] 2008 Southeast Asian Development: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Routledge, London, Chapter 28).          

McIlwaine, C. (1995) Gender, race and ethnicity: concepts, realities and policy implications. Third World Planning Review, 17:2, 237-44.

 
Invited review articles in international refereed journals
McIlwaine, C. and Datta, K. (2003) From feminising to engendering development, Gender, Place and Culture, 10:4, 345-358.

McIlwaine, C. (1999) Geography and Development: crime and violence as development issues.  Progress in Human Geography, 23: 3, 453-463.

McIlwaine, C. (1998) Civil society and Development Geography.  Progress in Human Geography, 22:3, 415-24.

McIlwaine, C. (1997) Third World Development: urbanizing for the future.  Progress in Human Geography, 21:3, 406-413.

 

Chapters in edited collections

McIlwaine, Evans, Krenzinger and Sousa Silva (2020) Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls. In Keith and Aruska de Sousa Santos (eds) Urban Transformations and Public Health in the Emergent City, MUP (open access).

McIlwaine, C., and Ryburn, M., (2019) Diversities of international and transnational migration in and beyond Latin America’. In J. Cupples, M. Polomino-Schalscha, and M. Prieto (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. London: Routledge, 145-155. 

McIlwaine, C. and Ryburn, M. (2019) Metropolitan mobilities: transnational urban labour markets. In Schwanen, T. and Van Kempen, R. (eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

McIlwaine, C. (2016) Gender-based violence and assets in just cities: triggers and transformation. In Moser, C. (ed) Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities: Pathways to Transformation? Routledge: London, 150-163.

McIlwaine, C. (2015) Latin London: negotiating invisibility among Latin Americans in London. In Kershen, A. (ed.) London the Promised Land Revisited, Ashgate: Aldershot, 167-186.

McIlwaine, C. (2015) International Migration. In Cooper, C. and Michie, J. (eds) Understanding All Our Futures: Why Social Sciences Matter, Palgrave: Basingstoke, 176-191.

Datta, K. and McIlwaine, C. (2014) Negotiating masculinised migrant rights and everyday citizenship in a global city: Brazilian men in London. In Gorman-Murray, A. and Hopkins, P. (eds) Masculinities and Place, Ashgate: Aldershot, 93-108.

McIlwaine, C. and Datta, K. (2014) Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour. In Imrie, R. and Lees, L. (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Policy Press: Bristol, 111-128.

McIlwaine, C. (2014) Gender- and age-based violence. In Desai, V. and Potter, R. (eds) The Companion to Development Studies, Arnold: London (third edition), 493-499.

McIlwaine, C. and Bermudez, Anastasia (2014) La participación electoral transnacional: un studio sobre el voto externo de los Colombianos en Madrid y Londres. In Escobar, C. and Gomez Kopp, M. (eds) El Voto en El Exterior, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, 143-165.

McIlwaine, C. (2013) Prácticas de subsistencia desplazadas entre los colombianos en
Londres. In Esteban, F.O. (ed) Espacios transnacionales de la migración latinoamericana en Europa. Editorial Antropofagia: Buenos Aires, 101-124.

McIlwaine, C. (2012) Causes and actors of urban violence. In EU Institute for Security Studies/International Committee of the Red Cross (eds) Urban Violence and Humanitarian Challenges, ISS, Brussels, 19-24.

Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Herbert, J., Evans, Y. May, J. and Wills, J. (2012) Global workers for global cities: low-paid migrant labour in London. In Derudder, B., Hoyler, M., Taylor, P.J. and Witlox, F. (eds) International handbook of Globalization and World Cities, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 390-397.

McIlwaine, C. (2011) Introduction: theoretical and empirical perspectives on Latin American migration across borders. In McIlwaine, C. (2011) (ed) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 1-17.

McIlwaine, C. (2011) Super-diversity, multiculturalism and integration: an overview of the Latin American population in London, UK. In McIlwaine, C. (2011) (ed) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 93-117.

McIlwaine, C. and Carlisle, F. (2011) Gender transformations and gender-based violence among Latin American migrants in London. In McIlwaine, C. (2011) (ed) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 157-174.

McIlwaine, C. (2011) Migración transitoria como recurso: Latinoamericanos en el Reino Unido vía  España. In Ginieniewicz, J. (ed) La Migración Latinoamericana a España: una mirada desde el modelo de acumulación de activos, FLACO, Quito, 215-236.

McIlwaine, C. (2011) Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective. In Pollard, J., McEwan, C. and Hughes, A. (eds) Postcolonial Economies: Rethinking Material Lives, Zed, London, 157-181.

Wills, J., Datta, K., McIlwaine, C. Evans, Y., Herbert, J., and May, J. (2011) Immigration, local regional and uneven development. In Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge, London, 449-459.

McIlwaine, C. (2010) Costa Rica: Economy. In South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2011, 19th edition, Routledge, London.

McIlwaine, C. (2010) Costa Rica: History. In South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2011, 19th edition, Routledge, London.

Wills, J., McIlwaine, C., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., and May, J. (2010) New migrant divisions of labour. In Coe, N. and Jones, A. (eds) The Economic Geography of the UK. Sage, London, 225-238.

McIlwaine, C. (2010) The gendered exclusions of international migration: perspectives from Latin American migrants in London. In Chant, S. (ed) International Handbook on Gender and Poverty, Edward Elgar, London, 260-265.

Moser, C. and McIlwaine, C. (2009) La violencia urbana en Latinoamérica como problema de desarrollo. In Lunecke, A., Munizaga, A.M., and Ruiz, J.C (eds) Violencia y delincuencia en barrios: sistemización de experiencias, Fundación Paz Ciudadana, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 13-40.

McIlwaine, C. (2009) Development: Civil society. In Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, Elsevier, Oxford, 136-141.

May, J. Datta, K. Evans, E. Herbert, J. and McIlwaine, C. and Wills, J. (2009) Travelling neoliberalism: Polish and Ghanaian migrants workers in London. In Smith, A., Stenning, A. and Willis, K. (eds) Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Global Perspectives. London, Zed, 61-89.

Chant, S and McIlwaine, C (2009) Gender and manufacturing employment. In Edwards, L. and Roces, M. (eds) Major Works on Women in Asia, Routledge: London, 142-187.

McIlwaine, C (2008) Gender- and age-based violence. In Desai, V. and Potter, R. (eds)Companion to Development Studies, Arnold: London (second edition), 445-449.

McIlwaine, C. and Moser, C (2007) Living in fear: How the urban poor perceive violence, fear and insecurity. In  Koonings, K. and Kruijt. D. (eds) Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America, Zed: London, 117-137.

McIlwaine, C. (2006) Using indigenous local knowledge and literature.  In Desai, V. and Potter, R. (eds) Doing Development Research, Sage: London, 222-230.

McIlwaine, C. (2005) Susan George. In Simon, D. (ed) Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, Routledge, London, 111-116.

McIlwaine, C. (2005) Gender and industrialization, gender and poverty, urban poverty. In Forsyth, T. (ed) Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Development, Routledge: London, 269-271, 271-272, 730- 732.

Chant, S. and McIlwaine, C. (2004) Migrations intérieures et internationales des Philippines: leurs effets dans les régions de depart. In Verschuur, C. et Reysoo, F. (eds) Genre, nouvelle division internationale du travail et migrations, Cahiers Genre et Développement no 5, L’Harmattan, IUED, efi: Geneva, 145-155.

McIlwaine, C. (2002) Women, children and violence. In Desai, V. and Potter, R. (eds) The Companion to Development Studies, Arnold: London, 427-432.

McIlwaine, C., Chant, S. and Lloyd Evans, S. (2002) Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector.  In McIlwaine, C. and Willis, K. (eds) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Prentice Hall: Harlow, 110-135.

McIlwaine, C. (2002) Perspectives on poverty, vulnerability and exclusion. In McIlwaine, C. and Willis, K. (eds) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Prentice Hall: Harlow, 82-109.

Moser, C. and McIlwaine, C. (2001) Gender and social capital in contexts of political violence. In Moser, C. and Clark, F.C. (eds) Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence, Zed: London, 178-200.

McIlwaine, C (1997) Fringes or frontiers? Gender and export-oriented development in the Philippine Visayas. In Dixon, C. and Drakakis-Smith, D. (eds) Uneven Development in South East Asia, Ashgate: Aldershot, 100-123.