Publications
Original Articles
Ramdas, K. and De Silva, M. (2025) Commentary – Community Engagement Courses and Feminist Participatory Action Research: Pedagogies of Sacrifice and Refusal. The Geographical Journal, 191(4), e70035. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70035
De Silva, M. (2023) Pragmatic transnationalism: Sri Lankan-British retired migrants’ negotiations of transnational citizenship and (un)belonging. Professional Geographer, 75(1), 155-163. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2022.2087693
De Silva, M., Woods, O. and Kong, L. (2020) Alternative education spaces and pathways: Insights from an international Christian school in China. Area, 52(4), 750-757. DOI: 10.1111/area12634
De Silva, M. and Gandhi, K. (2019). ‘Daughter’ as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field. Area, 51(4), 662-669. DOI: 10.1111/area1252
De Silva, M. (2018). Making the emotional connection: Transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families. Gender, Place and Culture, 25(1), 88-103. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339018
De Silva, M. (2017). The care pentagon: Older adults within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families and their landscapes of care. Population, Space and Place, 23(8), e2061. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2061
Book Chapters
De Silva, M. (2025). Aging across the Life Course. In Jamie Winders and Ishan Ashutosh (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 233-242. DOI: 10.1002/9781119634294.ch19
De Silva, M. (2023) Foregrounding self-care: Older persons’ transforming cultural notions of independence and (inter)dependence. In Irudaya Rajan (ed.) Handbook on Ageing, Health and Social Policy. Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_94-1
Cheng, Y. E. and De Silva, M. (2022) Geographies of education: data, scale, and pedagogy. In Sarah A. Lovell, Stephanie E. Coen and Mark W. Rosenberg (eds) Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography, Routledge, pp. 295-305.
De Silva, M. (2020) Beyond the ‘age’ lens: Older migrants’ negotiation of intersectional identities over the lifecourse. In Shirlena Huang and Kanchana Ruwanpura (eds) Handbook on Gender in Asia, Edward Elgar, pp. 275–291.
De Silva, M. (2020) Intersectionality. In Audrey Kobayashi (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed), Elsevier, pp. 397-401. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10197-0
Book Reviews
De Silva, M. (2020) Book review of ‘The City as Power: Urban Space, Place and National Identity’ (2019), edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, for Journal of Cultural Geography, 38(1), 123-124. DOI:10.1080/08873631.2020.1824358
De Silva, M. (2013) Book review of ‘Return migration and identity: A global phenomenon, a Hong Kong case’ (2010) by Nan M. Sussman, for Journal of Population Studies, 46, 185-188.
Other Outputs
De Silva, M. (2025) Retired Migrants. Geography Review, 38 (3). Hachette Learning, pp.16-19. Magazine for Advanced-level geography students in the UK.
De Silva, M. (2022) Gender, Women and International Migration. Geography Digest, Issue 2, Article 1. Curriculum Planning and Development Division 2, Ministry of Education -Singapore.
The Sikh Road (8 April 2021). A shared virtual fieldtrip video (26 minutes) created for the general education module ‘Changing Landscapes of Singapore’ and community awareness. Co-created with Shirlena Huang (NUS Geography) and in collaboration with Mr. Sarabjeet Singh of the Young Sikh Association – Singapore.
De Silva, M. (2013) Sinhala-Buddhist migrant professionals in Australia. In Reeves, P. (ed) The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pty Ltd, pp. 166.