Philip F. Kelly
Professor and Department Chair
Office: Ross Building, N402/N418
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 66199
Email: pfkelly@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
My recent research has examined the labour market trajectories of Filipino immigrants and their children in Toronto, the transnational linkages forged with communities and families in the Philippines, and the process of socio-economic change in sending areas. Conceptually, I am interested in the interface between political economy approaches to class and labour markets, and cultural approaches that explore the intersection of class and other bases of identity. My current research project examines the potential of migrant social networks in the development of transnational alternative economic practices between Canada and the Philippines.
Degrees
PhD, University of British ColumbiaMA, McGill University
BA (Hons), University of Oxford
Professional Leadership
Chair, Department of Geography (2019-)
Director, York Centre for Asian Research (2012-2017)
Director, Graduate Program in Geography (2007-2010)
President, Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (2007-2009)
Research Interests
- British Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada 1993-1997 - 1993-97
- Max Binz Major Fellowship, McGill University 1992-1993 - 1992-93
- Scholar, Keble College, University of Oxford 1989-1991 - 1989-91
- The Julian M. Szeicz Award (Presented by the Canadian Association of Geographers in recognition of significant achievements by a Canadian geographer at an early career stage.) 2006 - 2006
- Team Residency Fellowship, Rockefeller Study Centre, Bellagio, Italy (February 2006) (with Neil Coe, University of Manchester, and Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore). 2006 - 2006
- Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore 1998 - 1998
- Elected Honorary Citizen of the Municipality of Tanza, Philippines 1994 - 1994
- 1993 Paper Competition Winner, Asian Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco - 1993
- Dean's Graduation Honour List, McGill University 1993 - 1993
- British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (declined) 1989 - 1990
- British Commonwealth Scholarship to Cana 1993-1997 - 1993 – 1997
- Max Binz Major Fellowship, McGill University 1992-1993 - 1992 – 1993
- Scholar, Keble College, University of Oxford 1989-1991 - 1989 – 1991
- The Julian M. Szeicz Award 2006 - 2006
- Team Residency Fellowship, Rockefeller Study Centre, Bellagio, Italy 2006 - 2006
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
- British Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada 1993-1997 - 1993-97
- Max Binz Major Fellowship, McGill University 1992-1993 - 1992-93
- Scholar, Keble College, University of Oxford 1989-1991 - 1989-91
- The Julian M. Szeicz Award (Presented by the Canadian Association of Geographers in recognition of significant achievements by a Canadian geographer at an early career stage.) 2006 - 2006
- Team Residency Fellowship, Rockefeller Study Centre, Bellagio, Italy (February 2006) (with Neil Coe, University of Manchester, and Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore). 2006 - 2006
- Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore 1998 - 1998
- Elected Honorary Citizen of the Municipality of Tanza, Philippines 1994 - 1994
- 1993 Paper Competition Winner, Asian Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco - 1993
- Dean's Graduation Honour List, McGill University 1993 - 1993
- British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (declined) 1989 - 1990
- British Commonwealth Scholarship to Cana 1993-1997 - 1993 – 1997
- Max Binz Major Fellowship, McGill University 1992-1993 - 1992 – 1993
- Scholar, Keble College, University of Oxford 1989-1991 - 1989 – 1991
- The Julian M. Szeicz Award 2006 - 2006
- Team Residency Fellowship, Rockefeller Study Centre, Bellagio, Italy 2006 - 2006
Examining how the Filipino diaspora in Canada engages with the Philippines through care, solidarity and alternative economies.
Description:In this collaborative research project we are interested in transnational economic practices that fall outside either the mainstream economy of corporate trade and investment or the private flows of remittances between family members. We are instead seeking those linkages that depend on the social networks created by migration and which generate or promote collectivized or non-monetized forms of well-being. This includes: humanitarian fundraising for typhoon victims; collective financing of social infrastructure such as school or clinics; the donation of volunteer skilled labour by members of the Filipino diaspora who return to the Philippines; networks of unpaid labour to care for children and the elderly; the fostering of alternative economic imaginaries through activism; the creation of channels to export products from small-scale and sustainable enterprises in the Philippines. Our research will profile these kinds of practices, will assess them critically, and will seek to foster the expansion of socially beneficial transnational economic practices. The project is based at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, Toronto, and it is lead by Philip Kelly. Our core research team includes Leonora Angeles (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Lynne Milgram (OCAD University, Toronto), Marla Asis (Scalabrini Migration Centre, Quezon City), Jeff Ducanes (University of the Philippines, Quezon City) and Andre Ortega (University of the Philippines, Quezon City). Melissa Gibson is the Manila-based coordinator and research assistant.
Start Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2015
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2019
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Summary:
As part of a larger project examining poverty and precarious employment in Southern Ontario, this study examines the role of artistic production and performance in solidarity formation and mobilization among Filipina live-caregivers
- Month: Jun Year: 2012
End Date:
- Month: Aug Year: 2013
Collaborator: Conely de Leon
Collaborator Institution: York University
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Summary:
In collaboration with Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada, this project examines the employment trajectories and social well-being of Filipina women who have settled in Canada through the Live-In Caregiver Program
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2012
End Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2014
Collaborator: Rupa Banerjee
Collaborator Institution: Ryerson University
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Summary:
The Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTiC) project was started in 2010. We initiated the project because research by Statistics Canada showed that Filipino-Canadian youth are not, on average, doing well in education and employment after they leave high school. Our research aims to find out why this is so, and what can be done about it. The study involves collaborative research (both quantitative and qualitative) in Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg and Vancouver. The project was initiated in Toronto in collaboration with the Community Alliance for Social Justice. The research will help us understand how Filipino identity is related to economic opportunities, how parental employment is reproduced in the life chances of their children, and how different immigrant settlement sites shape the next generation in important ways. For more information go to: http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/fytic
Start Date:
- Month: May Year: 2010
End Date:
- Month: May Year: 2013
-
Summary:
The Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) seeks to assist organizations whose mandate includes the better integration of immigrants into Toronto's labour force. Such partner organizations include immigrant service agencies and advocacy groups, employer associations, regulatory bodies, professional associations, training organizations, labour organizations, and credential assessment agencies. The purpose of the project is to provide such organizations with free access to statistical data and analysis on various aspects of immigrant labour market integration.
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2020) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Third Edition. Oxford: Wiley.
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2013) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Second Edition. New Jersey: Wiley.
Kelly, P.F. (ed) (2013) Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia. London and New York: Routledge. 246 pp.
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2007) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. 440pp.
Kelly, P.F. (2000) Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines. London and New York: Routledge. 189pp.
Olds, K., Dicken, P., Kelly, P.F., Kong, L., and Yeung, H. (eds., 1999) Globalization and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories. London and New York: Routledge. 293pp.
Kelly, P.F. (2018) Migration, Remittances and Development. In A.McGregor, L.Law and F.Miller (eds) Handbook of Southeast Asian Development. London: Routledge. Pp.198-210.
Austria, J., P.F.Kelly and D.Wells (2017) Precarious Students and Families in Halton, Ontario: Linking Citizenship, Employment and Filipino Student Success. Pages 57-73 in S.Procyk, W.Lewchuk and J.Shields (eds) Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Kelly, P.F. and C. de Leon (2017) Rescripting Care Work: Collaborative Cultural Production and Caregiver Advocacy in Toronto. Pages 91-108 in S.Procyk, W.Lewchuk and J.Shields (eds) Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
Cardenas, K. and Kelly, P.F. (2017) Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities. In Bain, A. & Peake, L. (Eds.) Urbanization in a Global Context: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp19-35.
Kelly, P. (2016) Remittances. In D.Richardson (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Geography. New Jersey: Wiley, and Washington: Association of American Geographers.
Kelly, P., Garcia, M., Esguerra, E., and the Community Alliance for Social Justice (2012) Filipino Immigrants in the Toronto Labour Market: Towards a Qualitative Understanding of Deprofessionalization. In Coloma, R.S., McElhinny, B., Tungohan, E., Catungal, J.P., Davidson, L., & (eds) Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp68-88.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility and Geographies of Work. In T.Barnes, J.Peck, and E.Sheppard eds., The New Companion to Economic Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kelly, P. (2012) Class Reproduction in a Transitional Agrarian Setting: Youth Trajectories in a Peri-Urban Philippine Village. In J.Rigg and P.Vandergeest eds Revisiting Agrarian Transformations: Localities, State and Class in Rural Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press and National University of Singapore Press.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Class, Migration and Identity in a Philippine Village. In C.Pluss and K.B.Chan (eds) Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia. New York: Springer.
Kelly, P.F. (2011) Space, Place and Labour. In The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Linda McDowell and Peter Sunley. London: Sage. Pp.149-60.
Kelly, P.F. (2010) Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market Subordination. In Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, edited by S.McGrath-Champ, A.Herod,, and A.Rainnie. London: Edward Elgar. pp159-76. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2009) “Transnationalism and labour geography”. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. London: Elsevier. p394-99. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and S.D’Addario (2008) 'Filipinos are Very Strongly into Medical Stuff': Labour Market Segmentation in Toronto, Canada. In The International Migration of Health Workers, edited by John Connell. London: Routledge. [First Author] . p.77-98
Kelly, P.F. (2008) “Logics of Dislocation” In Key Texts in Human Geography, edited by Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, and Gill Valentine. London: Sage. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Economic Globalization. In I. Douglas, R.Huggett, C.Perkins eds. Companion Encyclopedia of Geography. London: Routledge. pp.183-98. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Pathways to Politics: Integration and Activism among Filipinos in Canada. In L.Goldring and S.Krishnamurti (eds.) Organizing the Transnational: The Experience of Asian, Caribbean and Latin American Migrants in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp215-31 [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Olds, K. (2007) Researching Transnational Networks in Economic Geography. In T.Barnes, J.Peck, E.Sheppard and A. Tickell (eds) Politics and Practices in Economic Geography. London: Sage. pp255-66 [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Poon, J. (2004) Geography in a Crisis: Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s. In B. Warf, D. Janelle and K. Hansen (eds), Worldminds: Geographical Solutions to 100 Problems. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Pages 225-29. [Joint author]
Chan Fong Yin and Kelly, P.F. (2004) Local Politics and Labour Regulation in the Philippines: the Case of Subic Bay. In R.Elmhirst and R.Saptari (editors) Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalised World. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Pages 129-56. [Joint author]
Kelly, P. F (2004) Mengembangkan Daya Kritis Masyarakat di Kantong-kantong Industri: Masyarakat Madani di Pulau Pinang dan Batam. In A.Heryanto and S.Mandal (eds) Menggugat Otoriterisme di Asia Tenggara: Perbandingan da Pertautan antara Indonesia dan Malaysia. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. pp.117-77. [Single Author; translated by Budiawan]
Kelly, P.F. and McGee, T.G. (2003) Changing Spaces: Urbanization in an Age of Volatile Globalization in Chia, Lin Sien (ed.) Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pages 257-85 [Joint author]
Kelly, P.F. (2003) Civil Society in Industrializing Localities: Batam, Indonesia and Penang, Malaysia. In A.Heryanto and S.Mandal (eds.) Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia; comparing Indonesia and Malaysia. London: RoutledgeCurzon. [Single author]
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., and Olds, K. (2003) Globalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific. In Peck, J. and Yeung, H. (eds) Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives. London: Sage. [Joint author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) . The Political Economy of Local Labour Control in a Philippine Economic Growth Zone. In G. Hainsworth (ed.) Globalization and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance reform in Southeast Asia. Vancouver, Centre for Southeast Asian Research, UBC. Pages 395-404 [Single author]
Kelly, P.F. and Olds, K. (1999) Questions in a Crisis: The Contested Meanings of Globalisation in the Asia-Pacific. In Olds, K., Dicken, P., Kelly, P., Kong, L. and Yeung, H. (eds., 1999) Globalization and Asia Pacific: Contested Territories. London and New York: Routledge. ages 1-15 [Joint author]
Banerjee, Rupa; Kelly, P.F.; Tungohan, Ethel; Cleto, Petronila; de Leon, Conely; Garcia, Mila; Luciano, Marco; Palmaria, Cynthia; Sorio, Chris (2018). From “Migrant” to “Citizen”: Labor Market Integration of Former Live-In Caregivers in Canada. ILR Review, 1-29.
Kelly, P.F., Elisabeth Kramer, Ethel Tungohan, Chaya Ocampo Go, Jason Morris-Jung and Dominique Caouette (2017) Expertise, embodiment, and the dilemmas of activist research in Southeast Asia. Critical Asian Studies 49:3, 428-436.
Tungohan, E., Rupa Banerjee, Wayne Chu, Petronila Cleto, Conely de Leon, Mila Garcia, Philip Kelly, Marco Luciano, Cynthia Palmaria, Christopher Sorio (2015). After the Live-In Caregiver Program: Filipina Caregivers’ Experiences of Graduated and Uneven Citizenship. Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 (1), 87-105.
Kelly, P.F. (2015) Transnationalism, Emotion and Second Generation Social Mobility in the Filipino-Canadian Diaspora. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(3) 280-99.
Kelly, P.F. (2014) Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada. IRPP Study 45. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy. [Single Author]. Available at: http://www.irpp.org/en/research/diversity-immigration-and-integration/filipino-youth/
Kelly, P.F (2013) Production Networks, Place and Development: Thinking through Global Production Networks in Cavite, Philippines. Geoforum 44 82-92.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Migration, Transnationalism and the Spaces of Class Identity. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 60(2): 153–86.
Kelly, P.F. (2011) Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia. Critical Asian Studies 43 (4) 479-506.
Shields, J. Kelly, P.F., Park, S., Prier, N., and Fang, T. (2011) Profiling Immigrant Poverty in Canada: A 2006 Census Statistical Portrait. Canadian Review of Policy Studies, 65/66, 92-111.
Junjia Ye and Kelly, P.F. (2011) Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore’s Financial Sector. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (5) 691-707.
Kelly, Philip F., Mila Astorga-Garcia, Enrico F. Esguerra, and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto. (2009) Explaining the Deprofessionalized Filipino: Why Filipino Immigrants Get Low-Paying Jobs in Toronto. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 75. October 2009.
Kelly, P.F. (2009) From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration and Regional Development in Cavite, Philippines. Regional Studies, 43(3) 449-62. (Single Author)
Kelly, P. (2007) Filipino Migration, Transnationalism and Class Identity. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Working Paper Series No.90. 35 pages.
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Geographer, Asianist, Urbanist: Celebrating the Scholarship of Terry McGee. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 48(2) 250-69 [Single Author of introduction and editor of collected papers]
Kelly, P.F. (2006) Filipinos in Canada: Economic Dimensions of Immigration and Settlement. CERIS Working Paper No.48. Toronto: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.
Kelly, P.F. and Lusis, T. (2006) Migration and the Transnational Habitus: Evidence from Canada and the Philippines. Environment and Planning A, 38 (5), 831-47. [First Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2005) ‘Class Struggle: Filipino Immigrants and the Quest for Identity’. The Philippine Reporter (Toronto), March 1-15. 12 ms pages.
Kelly, P.F. (2005) Scale, Power and the Limits to Possibilities: A Commentary on J.K.Gibson-Graham’s ‘Surplus Possibilities: Postdevelopment and Community Economies’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 26 (1), 39-43. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2005) ‘The Deprofessionalized Filipino’. The Philippine Reporter (Toronto), November 16-30. 6 ms pages.
Kelly, P. F. (2003) Canadian-Asian Transnationalism. Canadian Geographer, 47 (3): 209-218. [Single Author]
Kelly, P. F. (2003) Urbanization and the politics of land in the Manila region. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 590: 170-187. [Single Author]
Coe, N and Kelly, P.F. (2002) Languages of Labour: Representational Strategies in Singapore’s Labour Control Regime. Political Geography, 21, 341-71. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P. F. (2002) Spaces of Labour Control: Comparative Perspectives from Southeast Asia. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 27(4), 395-411. [Single Author]
Dicken, P., Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (2001) Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards an analytical framework for the global economy. Global Networks, 1(2), 99-123. [Joint Author] . Selected as one of the journal’s 10 classic articles on the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2010.
Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (2001) Editorial: Geographical Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis. Geoforum, 32 (1), vii-xiii. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) Metaphors of Meltdown: Political Representations of Economic Space in the Asian Financial Crisis. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19 (6), 719-42 [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) Planning to prevent ‘unbalanced’ development in Manila’s mega-urban region. Contribution to the United Nations Global Report on Human Settlements 2001. (Included as Box 2.6, page 33)
Kelly, P.F. (2001) The Local Political Economy of Labour Control in the Philippines. Economic Geography, 77(1), 1-22. [Single Author]
Coe, N. and Kelly, P.F. (2000) Connections and constructions in the local labour market: the case of Singapore. Area, 32 (4), 413-22. [Joint Author]
Poon, J., Thompson, E. and Kelly, P.F. (2000) Myth of the Triad: The Geography of Trade and Investment Blocs. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 25(4), 427-44. [Third Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) Everyday Urbanization: The Social Dynamics of Development in Manila’s Extended Metropolitan Region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23 (2), 283-303. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) Rethinking the ‘Local’ in Labour Markets: The Consequences of Cultural Embeddedness in a Philippine Growth Zone. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 20 (1), 56-75. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) The Geographies and Politics of Globalization. Progress in Human Geography, 23 (3), 379-400. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1998) The Politics of Urban-Rural Relations: Land Use Conversion in the Philippines. Environment and Urbanization, 10 (1), 35-54. [Single Author] REPRINTED in C.Tacoli (ed) (2006) The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages. London: Earthscan. REPRINTED in J.Rigg (ed) (2008) Southeast Asian Development. London: Routledge
Kelly, P.F. (1997) Globalization, Power and the Politics of Scale in the Philippines. Geoforum, 28, 151-171. [Single Author] .
One of 26 papers selected to demonstrate the journal’s excellence and breadth of scholarship included in a virtual special issue celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Geoforum, November 2009.
Kelly, P.F. (1996) Blue Revolution or Red Herring? Fish Farming and Development Discourse in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 37 (1), 39-57. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Armstrong, W. (1996) Villagers and Outsiders in Cooperation: Experiences from Development Praxis in the Philippines. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 27, 241-59. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. (editor) (2007) Essays in Honour of T.G.McGee. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. In press, December 2007.
Kelly, P.F. (editor) (2003) Special Issue of the Canadian Geographer on ‘Canadian-Asian Transnationalism’. 47(3).
Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (editors) (2001) Special Issue on ‘Geographical Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis’. Geoforum, 32 (1).
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2022 | EU/GEOG4190 3.0 | A | Migrant Economies | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2022 | GS/GEOG5209 3.0 | A | Masters Seminar in Critical Human GEOG | SEMR |
My recent research has examined the labour market trajectories of Filipino immigrants and their children in Toronto, the transnational linkages forged with communities and families in the Philippines, and the process of socio-economic change in sending areas. Conceptually, I am interested in the interface between political economy approaches to class and labour markets, and cultural approaches that explore the intersection of class and other bases of identity. My current research project examines the potential of migrant social networks in the development of transnational alternative economic practices between Canada and the Philippines.
Degrees
PhD, University of British ColumbiaMA, McGill University
BA (Hons), University of Oxford
Professional Leadership
Chair, Department of Geography (2019-)
Director, York Centre for Asian Research (2012-2017)
Director, Graduate Program in Geography (2007-2010)
President, Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (2007-2009)
Research Interests
Awards
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
Examining how the Filipino diaspora in Canada engages with the Philippines through care, solidarity and alternative economies.
Description:In this collaborative research project we are interested in transnational economic practices that fall outside either the mainstream economy of corporate trade and investment or the private flows of remittances between family members. We are instead seeking those linkages that depend on the social networks created by migration and which generate or promote collectivized or non-monetized forms of well-being. This includes: humanitarian fundraising for typhoon victims; collective financing of social infrastructure such as school or clinics; the donation of volunteer skilled labour by members of the Filipino diaspora who return to the Philippines; networks of unpaid labour to care for children and the elderly; the fostering of alternative economic imaginaries through activism; the creation of channels to export products from small-scale and sustainable enterprises in the Philippines. Our research will profile these kinds of practices, will assess them critically, and will seek to foster the expansion of socially beneficial transnational economic practices. The project is based at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, Toronto, and it is lead by Philip Kelly. Our core research team includes Leonora Angeles (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Lynne Milgram (OCAD University, Toronto), Marla Asis (Scalabrini Migration Centre, Quezon City), Jeff Ducanes (University of the Philippines, Quezon City) and Andre Ortega (University of the Philippines, Quezon City). Melissa Gibson is the Manila-based coordinator and research assistant.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2015
End Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2019
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-
Summary:
As part of a larger project examining poverty and precarious employment in Southern Ontario, this study examines the role of artistic production and performance in solidarity formation and mobilization among Filipina live-caregivers
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2012
End Date:
- Month: Aug Year: 2013
Collaborator: Conely de Leon
Collaborator Institution: York University
-
Summary:
In collaboration with Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada, this project examines the employment trajectories and social well-being of Filipina women who have settled in Canada through the Live-In Caregiver Program
Project Type: FundedRole: Co-Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2012
End Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2014
Collaborator: Rupa Banerjee
Collaborator Institution: Ryerson University
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Summary:
The Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTiC) project was started in 2010. We initiated the project because research by Statistics Canada showed that Filipino-Canadian youth are not, on average, doing well in education and employment after they leave high school. Our research aims to find out why this is so, and what can be done about it. The study involves collaborative research (both quantitative and qualitative) in Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg and Vancouver. The project was initiated in Toronto in collaboration with the Community Alliance for Social Justice. The research will help us understand how Filipino identity is related to economic opportunities, how parental employment is reproduced in the life chances of their children, and how different immigrant settlement sites shape the next generation in important ways. For more information go to: http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/fytic
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: May Year: 2010
End Date:
- Month: May Year: 2013
-
Summary:
The Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) seeks to assist organizations whose mandate includes the better integration of immigrants into Toronto's labour force. Such partner organizations include immigrant service agencies and advocacy groups, employer associations, regulatory bodies, professional associations, training organizations, labour organizations, and credential assessment agencies. The purpose of the project is to provide such organizations with free access to statistical data and analysis on various aspects of immigrant labour market integration.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
All Publications
Kelly, P.F. (2018) Migration, Remittances and Development. In A.McGregor, L.Law and F.Miller (eds) Handbook of Southeast Asian Development. London: Routledge. Pp.198-210.
Austria, J., P.F.Kelly and D.Wells (2017) Precarious Students and Families in Halton, Ontario: Linking Citizenship, Employment and Filipino Student Success. Pages 57-73 in S.Procyk, W.Lewchuk and J.Shields (eds) Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Kelly, P.F. and C. de Leon (2017) Rescripting Care Work: Collaborative Cultural Production and Caregiver Advocacy in Toronto. Pages 91-108 in S.Procyk, W.Lewchuk and J.Shields (eds) Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
Cardenas, K. and Kelly, P.F. (2017) Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities. In Bain, A. & Peake, L. (Eds.) Urbanization in a Global Context: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp19-35.
Kelly, P. (2016) Remittances. In D.Richardson (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Geography. New Jersey: Wiley, and Washington: Association of American Geographers.
Kelly, P., Garcia, M., Esguerra, E., and the Community Alliance for Social Justice (2012) Filipino Immigrants in the Toronto Labour Market: Towards a Qualitative Understanding of Deprofessionalization. In Coloma, R.S., McElhinny, B., Tungohan, E., Catungal, J.P., Davidson, L., & (eds) Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp68-88.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility and Geographies of Work. In T.Barnes, J.Peck, and E.Sheppard eds., The New Companion to Economic Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kelly, P. (2012) Class Reproduction in a Transitional Agrarian Setting: Youth Trajectories in a Peri-Urban Philippine Village. In J.Rigg and P.Vandergeest eds Revisiting Agrarian Transformations: Localities, State and Class in Rural Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press and National University of Singapore Press.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Class, Migration and Identity in a Philippine Village. In C.Pluss and K.B.Chan (eds) Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia. New York: Springer.
Kelly, P.F. (2011) Space, Place and Labour. In The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Linda McDowell and Peter Sunley. London: Sage. Pp.149-60.
Kelly, P.F. (2010) Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market Subordination. In Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, edited by S.McGrath-Champ, A.Herod,, and A.Rainnie. London: Edward Elgar. pp159-76. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2009) “Transnationalism and labour geography”. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. London: Elsevier. p394-99. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and S.D’Addario (2008) 'Filipinos are Very Strongly into Medical Stuff': Labour Market Segmentation in Toronto, Canada. In The International Migration of Health Workers, edited by John Connell. London: Routledge. [First Author] . p.77-98
Kelly, P.F. (2008) “Logics of Dislocation” In Key Texts in Human Geography, edited by Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, and Gill Valentine. London: Sage. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Economic Globalization. In I. Douglas, R.Huggett, C.Perkins eds. Companion Encyclopedia of Geography. London: Routledge. pp.183-98. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Pathways to Politics: Integration and Activism among Filipinos in Canada. In L.Goldring and S.Krishnamurti (eds.) Organizing the Transnational: The Experience of Asian, Caribbean and Latin American Migrants in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. pp215-31 [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Olds, K. (2007) Researching Transnational Networks in Economic Geography. In T.Barnes, J.Peck, E.Sheppard and A. Tickell (eds) Politics and Practices in Economic Geography. London: Sage. pp255-66 [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Poon, J. (2004) Geography in a Crisis: Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s. In B. Warf, D. Janelle and K. Hansen (eds), Worldminds: Geographical Solutions to 100 Problems. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Pages 225-29. [Joint author]
Chan Fong Yin and Kelly, P.F. (2004) Local Politics and Labour Regulation in the Philippines: the Case of Subic Bay. In R.Elmhirst and R.Saptari (editors) Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalised World. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Pages 129-56. [Joint author]
Kelly, P. F (2004) Mengembangkan Daya Kritis Masyarakat di Kantong-kantong Industri: Masyarakat Madani di Pulau Pinang dan Batam. In A.Heryanto and S.Mandal (eds) Menggugat Otoriterisme di Asia Tenggara: Perbandingan da Pertautan antara Indonesia dan Malaysia. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. pp.117-77. [Single Author; translated by Budiawan]
Kelly, P.F. and McGee, T.G. (2003) Changing Spaces: Urbanization in an Age of Volatile Globalization in Chia, Lin Sien (ed.) Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pages 257-85 [Joint author]
Kelly, P.F. (2003) Civil Society in Industrializing Localities: Batam, Indonesia and Penang, Malaysia. In A.Heryanto and S.Mandal (eds.) Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia; comparing Indonesia and Malaysia. London: RoutledgeCurzon. [Single author]
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., and Olds, K. (2003) Globalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific. In Peck, J. and Yeung, H. (eds) Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives. London: Sage. [Joint author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) . The Political Economy of Local Labour Control in a Philippine Economic Growth Zone. In G. Hainsworth (ed.) Globalization and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance reform in Southeast Asia. Vancouver, Centre for Southeast Asian Research, UBC. Pages 395-404 [Single author]
Kelly, P.F. and Olds, K. (1999) Questions in a Crisis: The Contested Meanings of Globalisation in the Asia-Pacific. In Olds, K., Dicken, P., Kelly, P., Kong, L. and Yeung, H. (eds., 1999) Globalization and Asia Pacific: Contested Territories. London and New York: Routledge. ages 1-15 [Joint author]
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2020) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Third Edition. Oxford: Wiley.
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2013) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Second Edition. New Jersey: Wiley.
Kelly, P.F. (ed) (2013) Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia. London and New York: Routledge. 246 pp.
Coe, N., Kelly, P.F., Yeung, H. (2007) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. 440pp.
Kelly, P.F. (2000) Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines. London and New York: Routledge. 189pp.
Olds, K., Dicken, P., Kelly, P.F., Kong, L., and Yeung, H. (eds., 1999) Globalization and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories. London and New York: Routledge. 293pp.
Banerjee, Rupa; Kelly, P.F.; Tungohan, Ethel; Cleto, Petronila; de Leon, Conely; Garcia, Mila; Luciano, Marco; Palmaria, Cynthia; Sorio, Chris (2018). From “Migrant” to “Citizen”: Labor Market Integration of Former Live-In Caregivers in Canada. ILR Review, 1-29.
Kelly, P.F., Elisabeth Kramer, Ethel Tungohan, Chaya Ocampo Go, Jason Morris-Jung and Dominique Caouette (2017) Expertise, embodiment, and the dilemmas of activist research in Southeast Asia. Critical Asian Studies 49:3, 428-436.
Tungohan, E., Rupa Banerjee, Wayne Chu, Petronila Cleto, Conely de Leon, Mila Garcia, Philip Kelly, Marco Luciano, Cynthia Palmaria, Christopher Sorio (2015). After the Live-In Caregiver Program: Filipina Caregivers’ Experiences of Graduated and Uneven Citizenship. Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 (1), 87-105.
Kelly, P.F. (2015) Transnationalism, Emotion and Second Generation Social Mobility in the Filipino-Canadian Diaspora. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(3) 280-99.
Kelly, P.F. (2014) Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada. IRPP Study 45. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy. [Single Author]. Available at: http://www.irpp.org/en/research/diversity-immigration-and-integration/filipino-youth/
Kelly, P.F (2013) Production Networks, Place and Development: Thinking through Global Production Networks in Cavite, Philippines. Geoforum 44 82-92.
Kelly, P.F. (2012) Migration, Transnationalism and the Spaces of Class Identity. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 60(2): 153–86.
Kelly, P.F. (2011) Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia. Critical Asian Studies 43 (4) 479-506.
Shields, J. Kelly, P.F., Park, S., Prier, N., and Fang, T. (2011) Profiling Immigrant Poverty in Canada: A 2006 Census Statistical Portrait. Canadian Review of Policy Studies, 65/66, 92-111.
Junjia Ye and Kelly, P.F. (2011) Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore’s Financial Sector. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (5) 691-707.
Kelly, Philip F., Mila Astorga-Garcia, Enrico F. Esguerra, and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto. (2009) Explaining the Deprofessionalized Filipino: Why Filipino Immigrants Get Low-Paying Jobs in Toronto. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 75. October 2009.
Kelly, P.F. (2009) From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration and Regional Development in Cavite, Philippines. Regional Studies, 43(3) 449-62. (Single Author)
Kelly, P. (2007) Filipino Migration, Transnationalism and Class Identity. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Working Paper Series No.90. 35 pages.
Kelly, P.F. (2007) Geographer, Asianist, Urbanist: Celebrating the Scholarship of Terry McGee. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 48(2) 250-69 [Single Author of introduction and editor of collected papers]
Kelly, P.F. (2006) Filipinos in Canada: Economic Dimensions of Immigration and Settlement. CERIS Working Paper No.48. Toronto: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.
Kelly, P.F. and Lusis, T. (2006) Migration and the Transnational Habitus: Evidence from Canada and the Philippines. Environment and Planning A, 38 (5), 831-47. [First Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2005) ‘Class Struggle: Filipino Immigrants and the Quest for Identity’. The Philippine Reporter (Toronto), March 1-15. 12 ms pages.
Kelly, P.F. (2005) Scale, Power and the Limits to Possibilities: A Commentary on J.K.Gibson-Graham’s ‘Surplus Possibilities: Postdevelopment and Community Economies’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 26 (1), 39-43. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2005) ‘The Deprofessionalized Filipino’. The Philippine Reporter (Toronto), November 16-30. 6 ms pages.
Kelly, P. F. (2003) Canadian-Asian Transnationalism. Canadian Geographer, 47 (3): 209-218. [Single Author]
Kelly, P. F. (2003) Urbanization and the politics of land in the Manila region. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 590: 170-187. [Single Author]
Coe, N and Kelly, P.F. (2002) Languages of Labour: Representational Strategies in Singapore’s Labour Control Regime. Political Geography, 21, 341-71. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P. F. (2002) Spaces of Labour Control: Comparative Perspectives from Southeast Asia. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 27(4), 395-411. [Single Author]
Dicken, P., Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (2001) Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards an analytical framework for the global economy. Global Networks, 1(2), 99-123. [Joint Author] . Selected as one of the journal’s 10 classic articles on the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2010.
Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (2001) Editorial: Geographical Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis. Geoforum, 32 (1), vii-xiii. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) Metaphors of Meltdown: Political Representations of Economic Space in the Asian Financial Crisis. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19 (6), 719-42 [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (2001) Planning to prevent ‘unbalanced’ development in Manila’s mega-urban region. Contribution to the United Nations Global Report on Human Settlements 2001. (Included as Box 2.6, page 33)
Kelly, P.F. (2001) The Local Political Economy of Labour Control in the Philippines. Economic Geography, 77(1), 1-22. [Single Author]
Coe, N. and Kelly, P.F. (2000) Connections and constructions in the local labour market: the case of Singapore. Area, 32 (4), 413-22. [Joint Author]
Poon, J., Thompson, E. and Kelly, P.F. (2000) Myth of the Triad: The Geography of Trade and Investment Blocs. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 25(4), 427-44. [Third Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) Everyday Urbanization: The Social Dynamics of Development in Manila’s Extended Metropolitan Region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23 (2), 283-303. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) Rethinking the ‘Local’ in Labour Markets: The Consequences of Cultural Embeddedness in a Philippine Growth Zone. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 20 (1), 56-75. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1999) The Geographies and Politics of Globalization. Progress in Human Geography, 23 (3), 379-400. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. (1998) The Politics of Urban-Rural Relations: Land Use Conversion in the Philippines. Environment and Urbanization, 10 (1), 35-54. [Single Author] REPRINTED in C.Tacoli (ed) (2006) The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages. London: Earthscan. REPRINTED in J.Rigg (ed) (2008) Southeast Asian Development. London: Routledge
Kelly, P.F. (1997) Globalization, Power and the Politics of Scale in the Philippines. Geoforum, 28, 151-171. [Single Author] .
One of 26 papers selected to demonstrate the journal’s excellence and breadth of scholarship included in a virtual special issue celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Geoforum, November 2009.
Kelly, P.F. (1996) Blue Revolution or Red Herring? Fish Farming and Development Discourse in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 37 (1), 39-57. [Single Author]
Kelly, P.F. and Armstrong, W. (1996) Villagers and Outsiders in Cooperation: Experiences from Development Praxis in the Philippines. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 27, 241-59. [Joint Author]
Kelly, P.F. (editor) (2007) Essays in Honour of T.G.McGee. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. In press, December 2007.
Kelly, P.F. (editor) (2003) Special Issue of the Canadian Geographer on ‘Canadian-Asian Transnationalism’. 47(3).
Kelly, P.F., Olds, K. and Yeung, H. (editors) (2001) Special Issue on ‘Geographical Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis’. Geoforum, 32 (1).
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