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YCAR supports the following ongoing research projects (listed alphabetically):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asian Values: Fictions of Finance in Postcolonial and Diasporic Asia<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Lily Cho<\/a> (English)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asian International Students to Canadian Universities: Examining the Racialization of Chinese, Indian and Korean Students in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Jean Michel Montsion<\/a> (Multidisciplinary Studies)
Co-Investigators at York (core national team): Ann Kim<\/a> (Sociology, York), Soma Chatterjee<\/a> (Social Work, York), Shirin Shahrokni<\/a> (Sociology, Glendon-York)
Funding: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autoimmunity, Self, and Society: A Sociological Approach to Chronic Illness in the Wake of SARS-CoV-2<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Michael Nijhawan<\/a> (Sociology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building Pathways: Removing Barriers to Education for Migrant Communities<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Yee Ling Elene Lam<\/a> (School of Social Work)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Southeast Asia Studies Initiative<\/strong>
Co-investigator and 快播视频 representative: Alicia Turner<\/a> (Humanities)
Funder: Luce Foundation
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Narratives of the Chinese Diaspora in Canada: The Chinese Times (1910-1992, Vancouver)<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Xueqing Xu<\/a>
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engaging Young Canada in the Sinosphere
<\/strong>Principal Investigator: Julia G. Bentley<\/a>
Funding: China Insights Fund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme Love: Young People\u2019s Experiences at the Intersection of Intimacy and Violence in Urban India<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Kabita Chakraborty<\/a> (Children\u2019s Studies)
Funding: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intellectual Migration: China-Canada-US Dynamics<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Lucia Lo<\/a> (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interwoven Intimacies: The Intersections of Sexuality, Justice, and Sex Work among Indigenous and Migrant Peoples<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Yee Ling Elene Lam<\/a> (School of Social Work)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life and Death of Urban Nature in India\u2019s Urbanizing Frontiers<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Shubhra Gururani<\/a> (Anthropology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long-distance Gods: Hindu Nationalism and the South Asian Diasporas in Canada<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Sheetala Bhat (English)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manila in the Transoceanic Archive: The Poetics of Colonial Occupation, 1762\u20131764<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Katarina O\u2019Briain<\/a> (English)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maternal Mortality, BIPOC Women and COVID-19<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Lalaie Ameeriar<\/a>
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neoliberal Industrialization, the Rural Periphery, and Uneven Development in India<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Raju Das<\/a> (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sailing with the French: Labour, Trade, and Mobility in the 18th-century Indian Ocean<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Margaret Schotte<\/a> (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slow Violence and Water (in)justice: Feminist Political Ecologies of Intergenerational Struggles in the Mekong Region
<\/strong>Principal Investigator: Nga Dao<\/a> (Social Science)
Co-investigator: Vanessa Lamb<\/a> (social Science)
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweatshops at Sea: Labour Reform in the Thai Seafood Supply Chain via Hybrid Global Governance<\/strong>
Co-investigator: Peter Vandergeest<\/a> (Geography)
Funding: Formas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biyuti Project: Queer and Trans Filipinx Youth in Ontario Catholic Education<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Marissa Largo<\/a> (Visual Art & Art History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transcending Babel in East Asia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1900\u20131950<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Joshua Fogel<\/a> (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transnational Migration and Social Reproduction: Eldercare Work of Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada\u201d, 2020\u20132024<\/strong><\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Guida Man <\/a>(Sociology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University to Work Transitions of International Students in Canada<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Nancy Mandell<\/a> (Sociology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Velomobility for Disability<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Glen Norcliffe<\/a> (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vernacular Healing and World-Making in China, 19th to 21st Centuries
<\/strong>Principal Investigator: Joan Judge<\/a> (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada & China Insights Fund<\/a>
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry<\/strong>
Principal Investigator: Peter Vandergeest<\/a> (Geography)
Co-Investigator: Philip F. Kelly<\/a> (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For completed programmes and projects, visit our Archive page.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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