322:(2016), she argues that poverty in U.S. cities is qualitatively distinct from impoverishment in other parts of the world. Dispossession in America, she argues, is the effect of distorted engagement between the American state and racialized populations residing in segregated neighborhoods. She distinguishes between mainstream and liminal government institutions—the former dealing with people as citizens and market actors and the latter operating on the basis of ambivalent benevolence through policies of surveillance, containment and penalization aimed at vulnerable populations, especially those formed by African Americans.
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Fernández-Kelly described the relationship among changing gender definitions and economic development in the United States and Mexico. She focused on the role that the national state in both countries plays in defining the proper ambit and behavior of men and women. She also highlighted gender as a
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Along with academic positions, Fernández-Kelly has also held administrative appointments. In 2015, she was appointed as a
Director at Center for Migration and Development (CMD), and Acting Director at Program in Latino Studies (LAO). In 2020, she served as Faculty Associate for Program in Latin
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Fernández-Kelly has an interest in gender and international economic development; her research on the subject shows that the application of neo-liberal economic policies, starting in the 1980s resulted in the atomization of the labor force in terms of gender, with an increasing number of women
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Fernández-Kelly's research focuses on international development, global economy, urban ethnography, race, gender, class, and women in the labor force. In the late 1970s, she conducted the first global ethnography focusing on export-processing zones in
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Fernández-Kelly has conducted research on immigration to the United States. Between 1993 and 2004, she led several ethnographic modules related to the
Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey (CILS) spearheaded by sociologists Alejandro Portes and
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Fernández-Kelly, P. (2008). The back pocket map: Social class and cultural capital as transferable assets in the advancement of second-generation immigrants. The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, 620(1),
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Portes, A., & Fernández-Kelly, P. (2008). No margin for error: Educational and occupational achievement among disadvantaged children of immigrants. The annals of the
American academy of political and social science, 620(1),
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Portes, A., Fernández-Kelly, P., & Haller, W. (2009). The adaptation of the immigrant second generation in
America: A theoretical overview and recent evidence. Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 35(7),
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Fernández-Kelly, P. (2015). Assimilation through transnationalism: a theoretical synthesis. In The State and the
Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents (pp. 291–318). Berghahn
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Fernández-Kelly, P., & Konczal, L. (2005). "Murdering the alphabet" identity and entrepreneurship among second-generation Cubans, west Indians, and central Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28(6),
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American Studies, and Associate Director for Program in American Studies at Princeton University. Between 2016 and 2021 she was part of the PIIRS Migration Lab: People and cultures across Borders.
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Fernández-Kelly, P., & Massey, D. S. (2007). Borders for whom? The role of NAFTA in Mexico-US migration. The ANNALS of the American academy of political and social science, 610(1), 98–118.
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Portes, A., Fernandez-Kelly, P., & Haller, W. (2005). Segmented assimilation on the ground: The new second generation in early adulthood. Ethnic and racial studies, 28(6), 1000–1040.
951:"The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State. By Patricia Fernández-Kelly. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+422. $ 35.00"
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Fernández-Kelly, P. (2020). The integration paradox: contrasting patterns in adaptation among immigrant children in Central New Jersey. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(1), 180–198.
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Portes, A., Fernández-Kelly, P., & Light, D. (2012). Life on the edge: immigrants confront the American health system. Ethnic and racial studies, 35(1), 3–22.
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employed in the formal and informal labor forces, and more and more men performing jobs with characteristics akin to those associated with women's employment.
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Chavalas de Maquiladora: A Study of the composition of the Female Labor Force in Ciudad Juárez's Offshore Production Plants
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Fernández-Kelly was born in Mexico City on December 7, 1946. She earned a Ph.D. (equivalency) in Art History in 1974 from
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Fernández-Kelly, P. (2010). A Howl to the Heavens. Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States, 52–71.
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Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and its Alternatives
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Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections
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