- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I2-04
- wilcock@iss.nl
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Profile
I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a specialist research profile in migration, transnationalism and peacebuilding. My fully-funded PhD -supervised by Prof Uma Kothari at the Global Development Institute - examined the role of conflict-generated diasporas in homeland peacebuilding. Following that, I stayed at Manchester to coordinate the University's Migration Lab before taking up a postdoc at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Here, I have worked across two projects: the NWO funded 'Migration and Human Security' with the Prince Claus Chair dr. Ali Bilgic and in the Vital Cities and Citizens: Migration and Diversity programme.
In my research, I am driven to understand the political lives of forced migrants. When people are forced to leave their homelands, their access to rights and their belonging to political community become diffused in a messy global network. I want to understand the social and political transformations brought about when forced migrants become ‘acting citizens’ in the face of their legal liminality and social exclusion. To this end, I bring conceptual frameworks in relational sociology to bear on the politics of migration. My empirical expertise is in out-migration from Sudan and Sudanese political development. This derives from seven years of extensive engagement with Sudanese communities in Europe, as well as fieldwork in Khartoum.
- C.A. Wilcock (2020). Hybridising diasporic resistance to homeland peacebuilding: a case study of UK Sudanese activists and Sudanese peace. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (11), 2443-2461. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1683443 [go to publisher's site]
- C.A. Wilcock (2020). From hybridity to networked relationality: actors, ideologies and the legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. doi: 10.1080/17502977.2020.1822619
- C.A. Wilcock (2019). Hostile Immigration Policy and the Limits of Sanctuary as Resistance: Counter-conduct as Constructive Critique. Social Inclusion, 7 (4), 141-151. doi: 10.17645/si.v7i4.2353
- A. Bilgic, G. Hoogensen Gjørv & C.A. Wilcock (2019). Trust, Distrust, and Security: An Untrustworthy Immigrant in a Trusting Community. Political Psychology, 40 (6), 1283-1296. doi: 10.1111/pops.12613 [go to publisher's site]
- C.A. Wilcock (2019). Why are migrant campaigns different from homeland campaigns? Understanding belonging in context among UK-Sudanese activists. Global networks : a journal of transnational affairs, 19 (2), 179-196. doi: 10.1111/glob.12216
- C.A. Wilcock (2018). Mobilising towards and imagining homelands: Diaspora formation among UK Sudanese. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44 (3), 363-381. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1313104 [go to publisher's site]
- A. Bilgic, D. Gasper & C.A. Wilcock (2020). A human security perspective on migration to Europe. In J. Morrissey (Ed.), Haven: the Mediterranean Crisis and Human Security (New Horizons in Human Geography series) (pp. 300-326). London: Edward Elgar doi: 10.4337/9781788115483
- C.A. Wilcock (2020). Diasporas and Development in the Global Age. In T Bastia & R Skeldon (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Migration and Development (pp. 255-270). London: Routledge
- C.A. Wilcock (2018). Toyin Falola and Tyler Fleming (eds), Music, Performance and African Identities. [Bespreking van het boek Music, Performance and African Identities]. Journal of Consumer Culture, 15(2), 281-283. doi: 10.1177/1469540515574428
- A. Bilgic, D. Gasper & C.A. Wilcock (2020). A necessary complement to human rights: a human security perspective on migration to Europe. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 660). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
Academic Researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- Academic staff unit
Vital Cities and Citizens
- Additional Information
- Affiliated to the VCC program (www.eur.nl/en/research/erasmus- initiatives/vital- cities-and-citizens).
- Role
- Researcher