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Asia Research Briefs provide short summaries of research by YCAR Associates. Their purpose is to share insights from academic research that are otherwise not widely circulated. They are directed, in particular, to journalists, policy analysts, community leaders and interested members of the public.
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Diaspora Geopolitics (Tamils in Canada)
(2021-01)Jennifer Hyndman (Social Science and Geography, York University), Amarnath Amarasingam (Religion, Queen’s University) and Gayathri Naganathan (Surgery, University of Toronto) examine how the state can often frame diaspora ... -
On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis
(2020-12)Laam Hae (Politics) discusses her newly released co-edited volume, On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (University of Toronto Press, 2019). This book is the outcome of long-term ... -
Gendered World of Issei Women and Men in Japanese Hawai‘i, 1880s–1910s
(2020-11)Yukari Takai (History) examines the marriage and divorce practices among Japanese issei women and men in Hawai‘i from the 1880s to the 1910s. She focuses on three practices that are difficult to capture and previously ... -
Can Facebook Usher in Political Inclusion for Afghan Women?
(2020-10)Zahra Nader (Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies) investigates whether the use of the Facebook platform is helping Afghan women to create an alternative public space where they can ... -
New Directions in Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia
(2020-09)This work examines neoliberalizing changes in environmental governance and argues that the implications for local resource users cannot be simply read off of how these projects are designed, but need to be understood in ... -
The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi (Pakistan), 1980s–2010s
(2020-08)Ayyaz Mallick (Environmental Studies) summarizes his dissertation which aimed to understand the decline of Karachi, Pakistan’s vibrant labour movement and the proliferation of exclusivist ethnic politics in the post-1970s ... -
Understanding Trends in Authoritarian Populism by Examining the Crackdown on the Cambodian Free Press
(2020)Examining trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press. The study focuses on Cambodia’s crackdown on the free press in the lead up to their national election in 2017 in order to ... -
Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All?
(2020)Examining 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. -
The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines: A Counter-Project for Livable Homes and an Alternative Lifeworld
(2020)On 8 March 2017, in what would become known as ‘Occupy Bulacan,’ the urban poor group KADAMAY and thousands of its organized members from different cities and towns occupied 5,300 idled government-built socialized housing ... -
International Higher Education and Social Stratification: Education Migration Narratives of Chinese International Students in Toronto
(2020)The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing studying abroad fever. The pursuit of international higher education (IHE) is no longer just for knowledge acquisition but has taken on a new significance for the middle ... -
The Social Life of Flooding in Jakarta
(2020)The issues around flooding have increasingly received attention in a variety of fields, and Jakarta has been a primary case study. Jakartans, at different times and under different circumstances, make sense of flooding and ... -
Planning for the Management of Indian Wetland Regions
(2019)India's Kerala is facing a shortage in its total agricultural production. The share of rice production from Kuttanad region is around 30% of the state’s total production. This research paves the way for the preparation ...
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