Isabel Crowhurst

Isabel Crowhurst is a Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. She works with a team of researchers on the Intimate Citizenship work package of FEMCIT, an EU FP6 project on Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements (www.femcit.org). She is responsible for the research on changes in intimate citizenship in the UK.

Isabel holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics. Her thesis explored how processes of racialization and sexualization of migrant women operating in the sex industry contribute to the governance of prostitution and sex trafficking in contemporary Italy. Her research and teaching interests lie in the regulation of sexualities, gender and racialised differences, and the racial and sexual politics of migration policies. Isabel previously worked as a researcher for the Third Sector European Network at the London School of Economics and University of Kent. She has taught and lectured modules on gender and sexuality, gender and social representations, and ‘race’ and ethnicity at the London School of Economics, University of Westminster, and University of Essex. 

Publications

(2009) (with Kendall Jeremy). ‘European Social Fund local social capital pilots and mainstreamed global grants: on the troubled trajectory of third sector policy transfer’, in The Third Sector and the European Policy Process (Kendall ed). Edward Elgar Publishing

(2007) ‘Socio-political and legal representations of migrant women sex labourers’, in Women and immigration law in Europe. New variations on feminist themes (van Walsum and Spijkerboer, eds). Routledge-Cavendish, London, UK.

(2007) (with Varrel Aurelie and Catarino Christine). ‘Genre et migration: bilan et perspectives’, in Les migrations internationals: enjeux contemporains et questions nouvelles. (Audebert and Ma Mung, eds). HumanitarianNet-Universite’ de Deusto.

(2006) ‘The Provision of Protection and Settlement Services for Migrant Women Trafficked for Sexual Purposes: the case of Italy’, in Trafficking & the Global Sex Industry (Amir and Beeks, eds). Lexington Books, Lanham, MD.

(2005) (with Trehan Nidhi) ‘Minority groups and reproductive rights: coerced sterilisation and female genital mutilation in Europe’ in Women’s Reproductive Rights (Widdows, Alkorta and Emaldi, eds) Palgrave/Macmillan, London.

(2005) (with Fernandez Ignacia and Kendall Jeremy) ‘From the European Social Fund Local Social Capital Pilots to mainstreamed Global Grants: the third sector and policy transfer’, London School of Economics Working Papers.

(2005) (with Will Catherine, Larsson Ola, Kendall Jeremy, Olsson Lars-Erik and Nordfeldt Marie) ‘The challenges of translation: the Convention and debates on the future of Europe from the perspective of European third sectors’, London School of Economics Working Papers.

Contact: i.crowhurst@bbk.ac.uk