YCAR is launching its 20th anniversary celebrations on April 28 with a talk titled “Reimagining Chinese Diasporas Studies in a Transnational World.” The talk will be given by transnational academic and scholar Shibao Guo, who over the past 20 years has developed research expertise in the areas of transnational migration, diaspora studies, Chinese immigrants in […]
YCAR is the new home of the Global South Forum at York University. The goal of the Forum is to bring together the community of colleagues at the University committed to facilitating conversations about development more inclusive of the critical intellectual contributions from the Global South itself. “Reconceptualizing Bandung” is the most recent event organized […]
Qiang Zha (Education) and Yao Cui (Music) are latest recipients of support from the Canada-China Initiatives Fund. Professor Zha received funding for his collaborative project that will explore if there is racial profiling among Canadian university professors of Chinese descent and the possible consequences for the Canadian research community and Canada-China research collaboration. Zha is […]
I am pleased to inform you that following the director search process, Professor Shubhra Gururani was offered the position, and she has accepted it. Shubhra Gururani is Associate Professor and former Chair and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Anthropology. She has been an active member of YCAR since it was founded in 2002 […]
Drawing upon Postdoctoral Associate Jessica Ticar’s (Politics) doctoral dissertation conducted within two im/migrant settlement service agency sites engaged in school-community partnerships, YCAR is pleased to support the publication of Dr. Ticar’s forthcoming book, entitled Transnational Filipina/o/x Youth, Intersectional Identities, and School-Community Partnerships: The Gendered Vulnerabilities of Migration in Canada, which will be part of the […]
YCAR is pleased to participate in York’s the first-ever Climate Change Research Month. In March, York’s Organized Research Units (ORUs), which are synergistic hubs that stimulate interdisciplinary and collaborative research around a range of topics, will be hosting dozen events, films and panels aimed at generating awareness of climate change research. Each of the events […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, Nga Dao (Social Science) examines the informal financial sector in rural Vietnam. ROSCA, or money pools (called Hụi, Họ, Phường or Biêu, depending on the geographical location), have for centuries been a way to help poor households invest in business, housing, education and healthcare, among other things. This practice […]
Through its Publication Support Fund, YCAR is pleased to support Nalini Persram’s forthcoming book, “Post-Revolutionary Reckoning in Yemen Under Saudi Arabian Bomb” (Palgrave 2022). The book consists of two broad themes, one permeated by a political argument about legitimacy as strategic rhetoric for the international military intervention in this Arab republic, the other encompassing a […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who received Canada Graduate Scholarships as part of the Fall 2020 competition. The results were recently announced on the SSHRC website. Seungwoo Baek, Communication and Culture | Perpetual Motion Machine: race as a mediating technology of the American conception of a networked empire Boyuan H. Bridge, Film Production | Chinese […]
Congratulation to Eleanor Yang, recipient of the second Vivienne Poy Hakka Graduate Research Award. Eleanor is a master’s student in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies. Eleanor is a 1.5 generation 客家 Chinese settler born in Kingston, Jamaica, but with ancestral roots in Feng Gang, Guangdong. She has been immersed in Hakka culture and language for […]