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Asia Research Brief #35 | Understanding trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press

In this latest Asia Research Brief, York Alumni and YCAR External Associates Laura Schoenberger (Banting Fellow, University of Ottawa) and Vanessa Lamb (Geography, University of Melbourne), along with co-writer Alice Beban (Sociology, Massey University), examine trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press. Their study focuses on Cambodia’s crackdown on […]

YCAR Collaboration Fellowship awardees to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on Punjabi migration

We are pleased to announce Tania Das Gupta (Equity Studies) as the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Das Gupta and Sugandha Nagpal (O.P. Jindal Global University) received the Fellowship for their collaboration on a project titled COVID-19 and Punjabi Migration. Through their project, they will apply a transnational lens to interrogate the […]

YCAR Undergraduate Asia Award 2020 recipient: Athena So

YCAR is pleased to announce that Athena So is the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Award. Athena wrote the winning paper—The Woman Question with Minister of Women’s Affairs, QIU JIN—for Opium, Rebellion, Woman: China 1800–1911 (HIST 3773). She was nominated by her course director, Noa Nahmias (History). Ms. Nahmias said that while many […]

Asia Research Brief #34 | Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All?

Guillaume Dandurand (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sherbrooke) examines India’s attempts to reduce bureaucratic corruption within the systems used to distribute food rations to poor households across the country through the digitization of ration cards. During his 17 months of field research, he discovered that while the new system did constrain corruption, it created new challenges […]

New Voices in Asian Research

We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi are the 2019 recipients of the Undergraduate Asia and Undergraduate Asian Diaspora Essay Awards. The award-winning papers are published annually in this special series. Safa Warsi is author of a study that […]

Congratulations to 2020 Graduate Award Recipient Jenna Blower

YCAR News | 2020 Graduate Award Recipients YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners. In this issue, we […]

YCAR receives $500,000 to support engagement in Hakka research

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and scholarship. This generous gift plants a seed for the growth of a Hakka Scholars Network to develop Hakka research and scholarship at York University and […]

Our Graduate Associates talk about the impacts of COVID-19

The series of rapid developments around the COVID-19 pandemic this spring has forced YCAR’s Graduate Associates to adapt to changes that impact them as students, researchers and educators. We reached out to them to share with us some of their thoughts about their education, research, finances, home life and future. The following is a small […]

Asia Research Brief #33: The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines

For issue 33 of our Asia Research Briefs (ARBs) Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near Manila in March 2017 who claimed idle government housing as their own. It examines the impacts of increasingly neoliberal policies and practices on social services as well as the power […]

Asia Research Brief #32: Chinese International Students and Social Stratification

In this Asia Research Brief, Guanglong Pang shares his research on the pursuit of international higher education (IHE) among both elite and non-elite Chinese families. Greater access challenged the old symbolic links between it and social stratification. What was once solely the domain of elite families, IHE has seen the greatest growth of participation from […]