Browsing Asia Research Briefs by Title
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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 ... -
Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India
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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 ... -
Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
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China’s Bold Economic Statecraft
(2015-01-01) -
Chinese Women’s History: Local or Global?
(2014-01-04) -
Development Aid and the Rise of New Donors
(2014-01-04) -
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 ... -
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. -
Filipino Youth Success in Vancouver
(2014-01-04) -
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 ... -
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 ...