Patricia Fernández-Kelly

E-Mail: mpfk@princeton.edu
Other Web Pages: http://sociology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/faculty.php#fernandez-kelly

Lecturer in Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University, 1981. Interests: international economic development, industrial restructuring, gender/class/ethnicity, migration/global economy, women/ethnic minorities in the labor force.

Recent Activities

Patricia Fernández-Kelly serves as the organizer for
the Colloquium Series, Center for Migration and
Development, as well as editor of the Centers official
research briefs, "Points of Migration" and "Points of
Development". She is also the organizer of the Scholars
in Residence Program for the New Jersey State Prison
where she teaches courses in sociology and facilitates the
collaboration between inmates and Princeton University
students in the production of InsideOut, an educational
magazine. Fernández-Kelly serves on the advisory boards
and committees of the People of America Foundation
and the Latin America Legal Defense and Education
fund. She has been a member of editorial boards for
the American Sociological Review, Signs: A Journal of
Women in Culture and Society, Diaspora: A Journal
of Transnational Studies, and Urban Anthropology. She
delivered numerous papers and addresses on the themes
of gender and development, transnationalism, migration
and urbanization, ethnicity, and inequality at such
institutions as Johns Hopkins, University of Tennessee,
University of Pennsylvania, William Paterson University,
Brown University, Drew University, and University of
California at Irvine.

Recent Publications

Fernandez-Kelly, P. Reforming Gender: The Effects of
Economic Change on Masculinity and Femininity in Mexico
and the U.S. Womens Studies Review(Fall):69-101. 2005.

Fernández-Kelly, P. Do You Think Democracy is a Magical
Thing? In Out of the Shadows, edited by P. Fernández-
Kelly, and J. Shefner. Penn State University. 2005.

Fernández-Kelly, P. The Future of Gender in Mexico and the
United States: Economic Transformation and Changing
Definitions. Pp. 255-280, In The Shape of Social
Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative
Perspectives, edited by D.B. Bills. New York, NY: Elsevier
Press. 2005.

Fernández-Kelly, P., and Konczal, L. Murdering the Alphabet
- Identity and Entrepreneurship among Second Generation
Cubans, West Indians, and Central Americans. Ethnic and
Racial Studies, 28(6):1153-1181. 2005.

Fernández-Kelly, P., and Shefner, J. Out of the Shadows.
P. Fernández-Kelly, and J. Shefner. Penn State University
Press. Forthcoming.

Portes, A., Fernández-Kelly, P., and Haller, W.J. Segmented
Assimilation on the Ground: The New Second Generation
in Early Adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies,
28(November):1000-1040. 2005.

Portes, A., and Centeno, M.A. The Informal Economy in
the Shadow of the State. In Out of the Shadows: Political
Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America, edited
by P. Fernandez-Kelly, and J. Shefner. University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press. Forthcoming.

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