Asia Research Briefs provide short summaries of research by YCAR Associates and YCAR-supported projects. Their purpose is to share insights from academic research that may not otherwise be widely circulated. They are directed, in particular, to journalists, policy analysts, community leaders and interested members of the public.
Technology and its role in building social connections among older adults: A community-academic research partnership
Lois Kamenitz
Locating the Indian Woman and LGBTQIA+ Online: Digital Activism in #Section377 and #MeTooIndia
Nanditha Narayanamoorthy
Multiple Minority Modalities: Dialogical Identities of Bengali-Speaking Buddhists in India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar
D. Mitra Barua
Money pool (Hụi/Họ) in the Mekong Delta: An Old Way of Doing Finance in Rural Vietnam
Nga Dao
Securitized Forced Migrants: Navigating the Journeys of Tamil Maritime Forced Migrants
Harini Sivalingam
A Sonic Mapping of Arab Canada
Jillian Fulton-Melanson
“Playing Out of Bounds”: Identity and community-building on and off the court (North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament)
Yuka Nakamura
Diaspora Geopolitics (Tamils in Canada)
Jennifer Hyndman, Amarnath Amarasingam, Gayathri Naganathan
On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis
Laam Hae
Gendered World of Issei Women and Men in Japanese Hawai‘i, 1880s–1910s
Yukari Takai
Can Facebook Usher in Political Inclusion for Afghan Women?
Zahra Nader
New Directions in Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia
Peter Vandergeest
The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi (Pakistan), 1980s–2010s
Ayyaz Mallick
Understanding Trends in Authoritarian Populism by Examining the Crackdown on the Cambodian Free Press
Laura Schoenberger, Vanessa Lamb, Alice Beban
Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All? (India)
Guillaume Dandurand
The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines: A Counter-Project for Livable Homes and an Alternative Lifeworld [English]
Ang 2017 Okupang Pabahay sa Pilipinas: Isang Kontra-Proyekto para sa Maayos na Pabahay at Alternatibong Mundo [Tagalog]
Hazel M. Dizon
The Social Life of Flooding in Jakarta
Abidin Kusno
Planning for the Management of Indian Wetland Regions
Sanil Kumar
Understanding Knowledge Culture of Late Imperial China
Lianbin Dai
Languages of Wisdom: Multi-lingual Poetry in the Guru Granth Sahib
Amardeep Kaur
International Education: An Untapped Archive of Canadian Nation Formation
Soma Chatterjee
Desire, Happiness and the Global Economy: Transnational Marriage Abandonment in India
Harshita Yalamarty
The Socio-ecological Implications of US Food Aid in the South Korean "Miracle"
Kyle Gibson
How Canada Contributed to China’s Remarkable Transformation Through University Partnerships and Knowledge Diplomacy
Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan and Qiang Zha
Invisible Newcomers: Experiences of Unaccompanied Children in Canada
Ishrat Zakia Sultana
Contemporary Tamil Poems from Sri Lanka: Regional Sensibility and Mainstream Trauma Theory
Geetha Sukumaran
Retiring Immigrants: Korean Seniors’ Lives After Migration to Canada
Ann H. Kim
China’s Bold Economic Statecraft
Gregory Chin
Revolutionizing Chinese Psychology in the Maoist Era
Zhipeng Gao
Reading Hindu Religion in South Asian Comics and Graphic Novels
Sailaja Krishnamurti
Multiple Experiences of Filipino Young Adults: Identity, Community and Social Justice
Jessica Ticar
Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The Prisms of the Arts
Lily Cho, Theodore W. Goossen, Susan J. Henders, Anindo Hazra
Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
Philip F. Kelly
Fishing for Political Control: Tangled Lines of Fishing Activity and Korean Maritime Boundary Disputes
Andrew M. Song
Oil Palm Plantations, Migration and Indian Youth Culture in Contemporary Malaysia
Kabita Chakraborty
Retelling the Philippines’ ‘turnaround story’
Kenneth Cardenas
Violence, Memory and Transnational Youth Formation in Sikh and Ahmadiyya Communities
Michael Nijhawan
Confucius Institutes Worldwide Attempt to Boost Research and Involvement
Qiang Zha
Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada
Philip F. Kelly
Filipino Youth Success in Vancouver
Julia Mais
Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India
Raju Das and Mohana Kumar S.
Chinese Women's History: Local or Global?
Joan Judge
The Ageing Tiger: Retirement Challenges in South Korea
Thomas Klassen
Development Aid and the Rise of New Donors
Gregory Chin and Fahimul Quadir
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