Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is a social anthropologist, academic and researcher. She is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is also the director of the Princeton Center for Migration and Development, associate director of the Program in American Studies, and Chair of the Board at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF).

Fernández-Kelly has published over 100 research papers. She has conducted research on international development, the global economy, urban ethnography, race, gender, class, and women in the labor force. She is the author of ''For We are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier'' and ''The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State''. Her monograph on Mexico's maquiladora program, ''For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier'' (1983) was featured by ''Contemporary Sociology'' as one of twenty-five favorite books in the last decade of the 20th century.

With filmmaker Lorraine Gray, Fernández-Kelly co-produced the documentary ''The Global Assembly Line.'' In 2010, along with Paul DiMaggio she co-edited ''Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States''. Since 2005, she has been a recurrent Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF). With Alejandro Portes, she is the co-editor of ''The End of Compassion: Immigrant Children in the Age of Deportations'' (2020). Provided by Wikipedia