Patricia Fernandez Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 681114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Fernandez Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Fernandez |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1316-5766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 996 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Social reproduction, migration and labour control regimes: Understanding Filipino crew experiences in the UK fishing fleet
The notion of a labour control regime provides a conceptual framework for understanding the web of actors, institutions and norms that shape disciplinary mechanisms in the labour process. While labour regime approaches have drawn in multiple scales and diverse processes, this paper argues that international migration, and social reproduction in migrant source areas, must also be understood as part of the regime. Focusing on the case of Filipino m…
An intersectional pathway penalty: Filipina immigrant women inside and outside Canada’s Live‐In Caregiver Program
This study uses Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Immigration Database to examine the ‘intersectional pathway penalty’ experienced by immigrant women from the Philippines entering Canada between 1996 and 2016 through three immigration categories. Estimating a series of growth curve models of employment income for 642,885 women, we compare Filipina immigrants’ earnings trajectories with female immigrants from other source countries to highlight how…
Diaspora and development beyond the state: The case of Gawad Kalinga in the Philippines
Since 2000, Gawad Kalinga (GK) has emerged as a prominent player in promoting diaspora-driven strategies for social and economic development in the Philippines. GK has its roots as the social ministry of a Catholic lay organization that started by providing housing and youth programmes for the urban poor, but in recent years, it has moved towards a more secular model of fostering social entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, a distinctly moral imperativ…
From "Migrant" to "Citizen: Labor Market Integration of Former Live-In Caregivers in Canada
This study examines the impact of attaining permanent resident status on the employment integration of migrant caregivers in Canada. The authors use survey data from 631 caregivers who arrived as migrants under a temporary foreign worker program before transitioning to permanent residency, as well as data from 47 focus group discussions. The authors find that although most caregivers do switch out of caregiving work over time, they often remain w…
Remittances
Remittances are financial transfers sent by migrants to their place of origin. Although measurements are problematic, it is clear that remittances have grown dramatically in volume since 2000. International financial institutions and national governments have hailed remittances as a source of development financing and poverty reduction. Critical researchers, however, point out the varied costs associated with migration as a development strategy a…
Transnationalism, emotion and second‐generation social mobility in the F ilipino‐ C anadian diaspora
Through the case of F ilipino‐ C anadian youth experiences, this paper examines socio‐economic mobility among the children of immigrants in the context of transnational social fields and emotional engagements with the diasporic homeland. The F ilipino‐ C anadian experience is distinctive in terms of immigration patterns, settlement trajectories, policy frameworks and the historical and contemporary construction of ethno‐racial identities. Using e…
Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age
Since the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part of a plural world of nations, and they shaped a new sort of Filipino identity while appropriating the modernity of the outside world, where at least for a while they operated as insiders. The global nom…
After the Live-In Caregiver Program: Filipina Caregivers' Experiences of Graduated and Uneven Citizenship
This article assesses the economic precariousness faced by Filipina live-in caregivers during and after the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). Using survey data and focus group interviews, we argue that live-in caregivers' unique pathway to immigration lead them to face economic challenges that are distinct from other immigrants. Not only do live-in caregivers face onerous employment conditions under the LCP, they have difficulties transitioning in…
Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global processes are constituted, accommodated, mediated and resisted in social processes at multiple scales, from the national economy to the village and the househo…
Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia: Introduction
Intensifying migration flows add new material dimensions to agrarian change in Southeast Asia, with novel forms of livelihood for out-migrants from rural areas, remittance flows for those left behind, and new sources of agricultural labor in places of in-migration. But migration also brings other processes of change that push the analytical boundaries of traditional agrarian political economy. Gender identities are brought into question as men an…
Production networks, place and development: Thinking through Global Production Networks in Cavite, Philippines
Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore's Financial Sector
Amid a resurgence of academic interest in the concept of cosmopolitanism in recent years, this paper explores the ways in which practices of cosmopolitanism are played out in the workplace. Singapore's financial sector is selected as a case study of a context that might be expected to exemplify a vanguard for the acceptance of difference. Not only are firms in this sector engaged in global labour markets for professional staff, but Singapore itse…
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories
From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration, and Regional Development in Cavite, the Philippines
Kelly P. F. From global production networks to global reproduction networks: households, migration, and regional development in Cavite, the Philippines, Regional Studies. This paper suggests an extension to global production network approaches that seek to understand the processes of regional development in Asia. In most cases, the network metaphor presents an unrealized potential to incorporate diverse actors and spaces in analysis. Using a case…
Geographer, Asianist, urbanist: Celebrating the scholarship of Terry McGee
Migration and the Transnational Habitus: Evidence from Canada and the Philippines
The experiences and decisions of migrants frequently confound scholarly expectations. In particular, the transnational linkages maintained by migrants transcend the social scales at which they are often assumed to live, and the spaces in which their integration or assimilation is usually studied-the neighbourhood, the urban labour market, the national society. Studies of transnationalism have shown that immigrants maintain multistranded connectio…
"Scale, Power and the Limits to Possibilities. A Commentary on j.k. Gibson-Graham's "Surplus Possibilities: Postdevelopment and Community Economies
The Imagined Economies of Globalization
Journal Article The Imagined Economies of Globalization Get access Philip Kelly Philip Kelly York University, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 254–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlecg/lbh048 Published: 01 April 2005
Urbanization and the Politics of Land in the Manila Region
Land ownership has long been a source and outcome of political power in the Philippines. This article shows how in the 1990s land and politics continued to be closely entwined, but the disposal of agricultural land for urban uses, rather than its ownership, was sought by the powerful. By examining the process of land use conversion in Manila's extended metropolitan region, two dimensions of the politics of land are examined: policy choices relati…
Canadian‐Asian transnationalism
Spaces of labour control: Comparative perspectives from Southeast Asia
This paper seeks to identify the spatialized dimensions of labour control in sites of rapid and recent industrialization in Southeast Asia. Using a comparative analysis of locations in Penang (Malaysia), Batam (Indonesia) and Cavite/Laguna (the Philippines), it is argued that the construction and control of space has been used to enhance control over the working body, and, in particular, to contain labour organization, unionization and collective…
Languages of labour: Representational strategies in Singapore's labour control regime
Geographical perspectives on the Asian economic crisis
Metaphors of Meltdown: Political Representations of Economic Space in the Asian Financial Crisis
Economic geographers have increasingly acknowledged the importance of discursive constructions and metaphorical representations of economic space. The representational has been recognized as more than just colourful rhetoric, being also a construction of reality that contains implicit understandings of how economic processes work and the corollaries of such processes in terms of government policy. Furthermore, the connections between understandin…
Chains and networks, territories and scales: Towards a Relational Framework for Analysing the Global Economy
A vast and continually expanding literature on economic globalization continues to generate a miasma of conflicting viewpoints and alternative discourses. This article argues that any understanding of the global economy must be sensitive to four considerations: (a) conceptual categories and labels carry with them the discursive power to shape material processes; (b) multiple scales of analysis must be incorporated in recognition of the contempora…
Chains and networks, territories and scales: Towards a Relational Framework for Analysing the Global Economy
A vast and continually expanding literature on economic globalization continues to generate a miasma of conflicting viewpoints and alternative discourses. This article argues that any understanding of the global economy must be sensitive to four considerations: (a) conceptual categories and labels carry with them the discursive power to shape material processes; (b) multiple scales of analysis must be incorporated in recognition of the contempora…
Migration and the Transnational Habitus: Evidence from Canada and the Philippines
The experiences and decisions of migrants frequently confound scholarly expectations. In particular, the transnational linkages maintained by migrants transcend the social scales at which they are often assumed to live, and the spaces in which their integration or assimilation is usually studied-the neighbourhood, the urban labour market, the national society. Studies of transnationalism have shown that immigrants maintain multistranded connectio…
The geographies and politics of globalization
Recent debates on globalization have tended to be polarized between those wishing to ‘unthink’ the broad set of economic, political and cultural processes it encompasses and those who enthusiastically embrace them. This article maps out the recent geographical literature on the politics of globalization as an idea, and suggests some of the directions in which less polarized and more sophisticated interpretations of globalization are heading. The …
Spaces of labour control: Comparative perspectives from Southeast Asia
This paper seeks to identify the spatialized dimensions of labour control in sites of rapid and recent industrialization in Southeast Asia. Using a comparative analysis of locations in Penang (Malaysia), Batam (Indonesia) and Cavite/Laguna (the Philippines), it is argued that the construction and control of space has been used to enhance control over the working body, and, in particular, to contain labour organization, unionization and collective…
Globalization, power and the politics of scale in the Philippines
Production networks, place and development: Thinking through Global Production Networks in Cavite, Philippines
From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration, and Regional Development in Cavite, the Philippines
Kelly P. F. From global production networks to global reproduction networks: households, migration, and regional development in Cavite, the Philippines, Regional Studies. This paper suggests an extension to global production network approaches that seek to understand the processes of regional development in Asia. In most cases, the network metaphor presents an unrealized potential to incorporate diverse actors and spaces in analysis. Using a case…
Metaphors of Meltdown: Political Representations of Economic Space in the Asian Financial Crisis
Economic geographers have increasingly acknowledged the importance of discursive constructions and metaphorical representations of economic space. The representational has been recognized as more than just colourful rhetoric, being also a construction of reality that contains implicit understandings of how economic processes work and the corollaries of such processes in terms of government policy. Furthermore, the connections between understandin…
After the Live-In Caregiver Program: Filipina Caregivers' Experiences of Graduated and Uneven Citizenship
This article assesses the economic precariousness faced by Filipina live-in caregivers during and after the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). Using survey data and focus group interviews, we argue that live-in caregivers' unique pathway to immigration lead them to face economic challenges that are distinct from other immigrants. Not only do live-in caregivers face onerous employment conditions under the LCP, they have difficulties transitioning in…
Languages of labour: Representational strategies in Singapore's labour control regime
The Political Economy of Local Labor Control in the Philippines
Labor market processes in sites of peripheral capitalism are all too frequently represented as the straightforward exploitation of abundant, cheap, and place‐bound labor by space‐controlling international capital. Extensive literatures exist that deal with national regimes of labor regulation and the subjugated subjectivities of workers in locations of rapid industrialization in the developing world. The complex regulating institutions operating …
An intersectional pathway penalty: Filipina immigrant women inside and outside Canada’s Live‐In Caregiver Program
This study uses Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Immigration Database to examine the ‘intersectional pathway penalty’ experienced by immigrant women from the Philippines entering Canada between 1996 and 2016 through three immigration categories. Estimating a series of growth curve models of employment income for 642,885 women, we compare Filipina immigrants’ earnings trajectories with female immigrants from other source countries to highlight how…
Myth of the Triad? The Geography of Trade and Investment ‘Blocs’
The notion that the world is increasingly divided into a triad of economic regions based on North America, the European Union and Japan has become a form of conventional wisdom across a range of disciplines. However, despite the near ubiquitous use of the idea of a triadized world, it remains a somewhat normative assertion, the empirical existence of which has yet to be demonstrated. By using the intramax method to analyze the intensity of intern…
Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore's Financial Sector
Amid a resurgence of academic interest in the concept of cosmopolitanism in recent years, this paper explores the ways in which practices of cosmopolitanism are played out in the workplace. Singapore's financial sector is selected as a case study of a context that might be expected to exemplify a vanguard for the acceptance of difference. Not only are firms in this sector engaged in global labour markets for professional staff, but Singapore itse…
Everyday Urbanization: The Social Dynamics of Development in Manila's Extended Metropolitan Region
Attempts at understanding the urbanization process in Southeast Asia have, in recent years, focused on the emergence of extended metropolitan regions around primate cities. Many have argued that with a landscape of intensively mixed 'rural' and 'urban' activities, such regions represent a distinctive Asian form of urbanization and a challenge to the conventional urban-rural dualism. The implication, both in theoretical and policy terms, is that s…
Canadian‐Asian transnationalism
Geographical perspectives on the Asian economic crisis
Distance and discourse in the local labour market: The case of Singapore
In this paper we use the example of Singapore to make two theoretical contributions to the geographical literature on local labour markets. Firstly, we suggest that the local labour market should be conceived of as an extended ‘network space’ that is constituted by extra‐local linkages and flows as well as local interactions. The importance of certain kinds of foreign ‘workers’ and ‘talent’ in Singapore can be used to illustrate this argument. Se…
Urbanization and the Politics of Land in the Manila Region
Land ownership has long been a source and outcome of political power in the Philippines. This article shows how in the 1990s land and politics continued to be closely entwined, but the disposal of agricultural land for urban uses, rather than its ownership, was sought by the powerful. By examining the process of land use conversion in Manila's extended metropolitan region, two dimensions of the politics of land are examined: policy choices relati…
Blue Revolution or Red Herring? Fish Farming and Development Discourse in the Philippines
This paper argues that the discourses of development underpinning aquaculture as a development strategy are flawed because they neglect the impacts of fish farming on the local resource base and those social groups dependent upon it. The Philippine government has promoted aquaculture for over two decades, viewing it as a key component of national economic recovery. But field work in the Batan municipality of the Philippines reveals that the ‘comm…
Landscapes of Globalisation: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
The politics of urbanrural relations: Land use conversion in the Philippines
By examining the process of land use conversion in Manila's extended metropolitan region, this paper suggests that rural-urban relations must be seen as intensely political. The conversion of rice land into industrial, residential and recreational uses represents a political process in two senses: first, policy choices are made relating to the use of land that reflect a particular set of developmental priorities; and second, the facilitation of c…
From "Migrant" to "Citizen: Labor Market Integration of Former Live-In Caregivers in Canada
This study examines the impact of attaining permanent resident status on the employment integration of migrant caregivers in Canada. The authors use survey data from 631 caregivers who arrived as migrants under a temporary foreign worker program before transitioning to permanent residency, as well as data from 47 focus group discussions. The authors find that although most caregivers do switch out of caregiving work over time, they often remain w…
Integration and identity in Muslim schools: Britain, United States and Montreal
Despite discrimination in mainstream Canadian society, local Muslim communities are a significant resource for immigrants. Recruited by friendship and kin networks, some families choose to educate their children in private full‐time Muslim schools which provide academic/economic credentials and social support. This research depicts a Muslim school in Montreal which both reflects Quebec society and nurtures minority ethnic/religious identity. For …
Diaspora and development beyond the state: The case of Gawad Kalinga in the Philippines
Since 2000, Gawad Kalinga (GK) has emerged as a prominent player in promoting diaspora-driven strategies for social and economic development in the Philippines. GK has its roots as the social ministry of a Catholic lay organization that started by providing housing and youth programmes for the urban poor, but in recent years, it has moved towards a more secular model of fostering social entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, a distinctly moral imperativ…
Death in Mexican Folk Culture
back three thousand years. Its historical route has been one of great achievements as well as of great tragedy, yet in its entirety it is possible to perceive the continued importance of the idea of death linked with religion, magic and, in later times, philosophy. The problem of death as a constant preoccupation of man in these three areas of human behavior is not limited to Mexico's past or present. On the contrary it probably constitutes, toge…
Villagers and Outsiders in Cooperation: Experiences From Development Praxis In The Philippines
In this paper we suggest that “postmodern” or “post-marxist” development theory and participatory development practice have much in common. We discuss an attempt to connect the two through a practical example: the Food Systems Development Project, a five-year CIDA-funded collaboration between McGill University and the University of the Philippines in the Visayas. The Project's experience suggests that while theoretical ideas are a valuable basis …
Blue Revolution or Red Herring? Fish Farming and Development Discourse in the Philippines
This paper argues that the discourses of development underpinning aquaculture as a development strategy are flawed because they neglect the impacts of fish farming on the local resource base and those social groups dependent upon it. The Philippine government has promoted aquaculture for over two decades, viewing it as a key component of national economic recovery. But field work in the Batan municipality of the Philippines reveals that the ‘comm…
Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform
This book evaluates the capacity of new democratic regimes to promote redistributive agrarian reform, an issue of concern to developing countries throughout the world. The author analyses the problems caused by political liberalisation and social and economic reform by examining in detail the formulation and implementation of agrarian reform in the Philippines under the governments of Corazon Aquino and her successor, Fidel Ramos. He reveals how …
Megatrends Asia: Eight Asian Megatrends that are Reshaping our World
Urban Usurpation: From Friar Estates to Industrial Estates in a Philippine Hinterland
Gender and the Paradoxes Of Development
The two chapters in this section present an invaluable opportunity to reflect upon the advances made, and challenges still to be surmounted in the study of gender and development. In the late nineteen‐seventies, when the field was expanding, the enthusiasm over innovative research was equaled only by the expectation that the study of gender would soon issue a theoretical corpus of sharp descriptive and explanatory potential, and broad in its capa…
Globalization, power and the politics of scale in the Philippines
Muslim Canadians: Immigration policy and community development in the 1991 census
Canada's Muslim population is rapidly increasing. Initial immigration was hindered by the racist White Canada policy, discarded in 1962. Thereafter, Muslims from South Asia and the Middle East entered Canada in large numbers as professionals and trained workers, as well as substantial numbers of refugees. While the community is well‐integrated economically, in terms of job classification and educational involvement, Muslims face prejudice and dis…
The politics of urbanrural relations: Land use conversion in the Philippines
By examining the process of land use conversion in Manila's extended metropolitan region, this paper suggests that rural-urban relations must be seen as intensely political. The conversion of rice land into industrial, residential and recreational uses represents a political process in two senses: first, policy choices are made relating to the use of land that reflect a particular set of developmental priorities; and second, the facilitation of c…
The politics of urban-rural relations: Land use conversion in the Philippines
Rethinking The “Local” in Labour Markets: The Consequences of Cultural Embeddedness in a Philippine Growth Zone
This paper contributes to recent geographical studies of local labour markets in three ways. First, it highlights the distinctive labour market processes occurring in an industrialising setting in the Philippines to complement existing studies that have tended to focus on “restructuring” contexts in the west. Second, it shows how labour markets are embedded not just in processes of institutional and social regulation, but also in the transformati…
Integration and identity in Muslim schools: Britain, United States and Montreal
Despite discrimination in mainstream Canadian society, local Muslim communities are a significant resource for immigrants. Recruited by friendship and kin networks, some families choose to educate their children in private full‐time Muslim schools which provide academic/economic credentials and social support. This research depicts a Muslim school in Montreal which both reflects Quebec society and nurtures minority ethnic/religious identity. For …
The geographies and politics of globalization
Recent debates on globalization have tended to be polarized between those wishing to ‘unthink’ the broad set of economic, political and cultural processes it encompasses and those who enthusiastically embrace them. This article maps out the recent geographical literature on the politics of globalization as an idea, and suggests some of the directions in which less polarized and more sophisticated interpretations of globalization are heading. The …
Everyday Urbanization: The Social Dynamics of Development in Manila's Extended Metropolitan Region
Attempts at understanding the urbanization process in Southeast Asia have, in recent years, focused on the emergence of extended metropolitan regions around primate cities. Many have argued that with a landscape of intensively mixed 'rural' and 'urban' activities, such regions represent a distinctive Asian form of urbanization and a challenge to the conventional urban-rural dualism. The implication, both in theoretical and policy terms, is that s…
Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
1. Introduction: Putting Globalization in its place 2. The Philippines and the Global Economy: Constructing a place in the World 3. Globalization and the Philippine Space Economy: Patterns, Processes and Politics 4. The Globalising Village I: Landscapes of Labour 5. The Globalising Village II: The Physical Landscape 6. Resisting and Reimagining the Global 7. Conclusion Appendix: Methodological Issues
Myth of the Triad? The Geography of Trade and Investment ‘Blocs’
The notion that the world is increasingly divided into a triad of economic regions based on North America, the European Union and Japan has become a form of conventional wisdom across a range of disciplines. However, despite the near ubiquitous use of the idea of a triadized world, it remains a somewhat normative assertion, the empirical existence of which has yet to be demonstrated. By using the intramax method to analyze the intensity of intern…
Distance and discourse in the local labour market: The case of Singapore
In this paper we use the example of Singapore to make two theoretical contributions to the geographical literature on local labour markets. Firstly, we suggest that the local labour market should be conceived of as an extended ‘network space’ that is constituted by extra‐local linkages and flows as well as local interactions. The importance of certain kinds of foreign ‘workers’ and ‘talent’ in Singapore can be used to illustrate this argument. Se…
Geographical perspectives on the Asian economic crisis
Metaphors of Meltdown: Political Representations of Economic Space in the Asian Financial Crisis
Economic geographers have increasingly acknowledged the importance of discursive constructions and metaphorical representations of economic space. The representational has been recognized as more than just colourful rhetoric, being also a construction of reality that contains implicit understandings of how economic processes work and the corollaries of such processes in terms of government policy. Furthermore, the connections between understandin…
Chains and networks, territories and scales: Towards a Relational Framework for Analysing the Global Economy
A vast and continually expanding literature on economic globalization continues to generate a miasma of conflicting viewpoints and alternative discourses. This article argues that any understanding of the global economy must be sensitive to four considerations: (a) conceptual categories and labels carry with them the discursive power to shape material processes; (b) multiple scales of analysis must be incorporated in recognition of the contempora…
The Political Economy of Local Labor Control in the Philippines
Labor market processes in sites of peripheral capitalism are all too frequently represented as the straightforward exploitation of abundant, cheap, and place‐bound labor by space‐controlling international capital. Extensive literatures exist that deal with national regimes of labor regulation and the subjugated subjectivities of workers in locations of rapid industrialization in the developing world. The complex regulating institutions operating …
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories
Landscapes of Globalisation: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
Spaces of labour control: Comparative perspectives from Southeast Asia
This paper seeks to identify the spatialized dimensions of labour control in sites of rapid and recent industrialization in Southeast Asia. Using a comparative analysis of locations in Penang (Malaysia), Batam (Indonesia) and Cavite/Laguna (the Philippines), it is argued that the construction and control of space has been used to enhance control over the working body, and, in particular, to contain labour organization, unionization and collective…
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