Outline: Rachel M. Silvey
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Associate Professor PhD University of Washington (1997) MA University of Washington (1993) BA University of California, Santa Cruz (1990) Phone: (416) 978-6640 Location: Room 5036, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: silvey@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests |
| Migration Indonesia Feminist theory Critical development studies Politics of transnationalism Expertise is in the gender dimensions of migration and economic change in Indonesia. Recent research focuses on the ways in which gender politics of migration are inflected by religion. |
| Selected Publications |
| 2010 “Development Geography: Politics and ‘the state’ under Crisis,” /Progress in Human Geography/, forthcoming, accepted. |
| 2010 “The Effects of Children’s Migration on Elderly Kin’s Health: A Counterfactual Approach.” With Randall Kuhn and Bethany Everett. /Demography/, forthcoming, accepted. |
| 2009. “Figures of Indonesian Modernity.” With Joshua Barker, Johan Lindquist, Tom Boellstorf, Chris Brown, Aryo Danusiri, Dadi Darmadi, Sheri Gibbings, Jesse Grayman, James Hoesterey, Carla Jones, Doreen Lee, Daromir Rudnyckyj, and Karen* *Strassler. /Indonesia /87:35–72. |
| 2009. “Transnational Rights and Wrongs: Moral Geographies of Gender and Migration,” /Philosophical Topics/, 37(1): 75-91. |
| 2009. “Development and Geography: Anxious Times, Anemic Geographies, and Migration,” /Progress in Human Geography/, 33 (4): 507-515. |
| 2007. “Unequal Borders: Indonesian Transnational Migrants at Immigration Control,” /Geopolitics/, 12(2): 265-279. |
| 2007. “Mobilizing Piety: Gendered Morality and Indonesian-Saudi Transnational Migration,” /Mobilities/ 2(2): 219-229. |
| Silvey, R. and E. Olson. 2006. Politics and Geographies of Transnationalism. Environment and Planning A 38: 805–808. |
| Silvey, R. 2006. Consuming the Transnational Family: Indonesian migrant domestic workers to Saudi Arabia. Global Networks 6(1): 1-18. |
| Silvey, R. 2006. Geographies of Gender and Migration: Spatializing Social Difference. International Migration Review 40(1): 64-81. |
| Silvey, R. 2004. On the Boundaries of a Subfield: Social Theory’s Incorporation into Population Geography. Population, Space, and Place 10(4): 303-308. |
| Silvey, R. 2004. A Wrench in the Global Works: Anti-sweatshop Activism on Campus. Antipode 36(2): 191-197. |
| Silvey, R. 2004. Power, Difference, and Mobility: Feminist Advances in Migration Studies. Progress in Human Geography 28(4): 1-17. |
| Silvey, R. 2004. Transnational Domestication; Indonesian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia. Political Geography 23(4): 245-264. |
| Silvey, R. and R. Elmhirst. 2003. Engendering Social Capital: Women Workers and Rural-Urban Networks in Indonesia’s Crisis. World Development 31(5): 865-881. |
| Silvey, R. 2003. Spaces of Protest; Gendered Migration, Social Networks, and Labor Protest in West Java, Indonesia. Political Geography 22(2): 129-157. |
| Book Chapters: |
| 2009. “Envisioning Justice: The Politics and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Film,” pp. 268-288 in Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar (Eds.), /Reconceptualizing Collaboration: Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis/. New York: City University of New York Press. |
| 2008. Rachel Silvey, Elizabeth Olson, and Yaffa Truelove, “Transnationalism and (Im)mobility: The Politics of Border Crossings,” pp. 483-492 in Kevin Cox, Murray Low, and Jennifer Robinson (Eds.), /The Sage //Handbook of Political Geography/. London: Sage. |
| Books: |
| 2008. Isabella Bakker and Rachel Silvey (Eds.), /Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction/. London and New York: Routledge. |
