YCAR supports the following ongoing research projects (listed alphabetically):

The Adaptation and Influence of Batman’s Iconography in Hong Kong Comics and Film
Principal Investigator: Wendy Wong (Design)

Asian Values: Fictions of Finance in Postcolonial and Diasporic Asia
Principal Investigator: Lily Cho (English)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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

Asian Urbanism and Environmental Politics: Inundation in Jakarta/Southeast Asia
Principal Investigator: Abidin Kusno (Environmental Studies)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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

Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies Project (ATE)
Principal Investigator: Philip F. Kelly (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website: ateproject.wordpress.com

China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and the Common Reader in China’s Long Republic, 1895-1955
Principal Investigator: Joan Judge (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Chinese Urbanization in Canadian Cities: Mapping the Scenes
Principal Investigator: Cary Wu (Sociology)
Funding: Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF)
Website

COVID-19 and Punjabi Migration
Principal Investigator: Tania Das Gupta (School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies)
Funding: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Website

Creating a Digital Archive for Sikh Protest Songs
Principal Investigator: Michael Nijhawan (Sociology)
Funding: LA&PS Minor Grant

Daily Narratives of the Chinese Diaspora in Canada: The Chinese Times (1910-1992, Vancouver)
Principal Investigator: Xueqing Xu
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Dynamics of Trust Before, During and After COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Cary Wu (Sociology)
Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Website

Ecologies of Labour: Unpacking Labour Abuse in the Seafood Sector
Co-Investigator: Peter Vandergeest (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Exploring the Experiences of Anti-Chinese/Asian Racism in the GTA 
Principal Investigator: Guida Man (Sociology)
Funding: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Extreme Love: Young People’s Experiences at the Intersection of Intimacy and Violence in Urban India
Principal Investigator: Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies)
Funding: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond
Principal Investigator: Casey Mecija (Communication Studies)
Co-investigator: Marissa Largo (Visual Arts)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Intellectual Migration: China-Canada-US Dynamics
Principal Investigator: Lucia Lo (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Language, Identity and Heritage Preservation in Global Chinese Communities
Principal Investigator: Jean Michel Montsion (Multidisciplinary Studies)
Funding: National Geographic

Life and Death of Urban Nature in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers
Principal Investigator: Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Living Deltas Hub
Co-Investigator: Nga Dao (Social Science)
Funding: Global Challenges Research Fund, UK Research and Innovation
Website

Maternal Mortality, BIPOC Women and COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Lalaie Ameeriar
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Navigating Information and Race in the Era of COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Jack Leong (Libraries)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Neoliberal Industrialization, the Rural Periphery, and Uneven Development in India
Principal Investigator: Raju Das (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Resisting the Birth of Buddhist Identity: Gender, Colonial Secularism and Practices of Connection in Burma
Principal Investigator: Alicia Turner (Humanities)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Sailing with the French: Labour, Trade, and Mobility in the 18th-century Indian Ocean
Principal Investigator: Margaret Schotte (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Slow Violence and Water (In)justice: Feminist Political Ecologies of Intergenerational Struggles in the Mekong Region
Principal Investigator: Nga Dao (Social Science)
Co-Investigator: Vanessa Lamb (Social Science)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Staged Identities: Documenting Folk Dance from the Philippines to Canada
Principal Investigator: Russ Patrick Alcedo (Dance)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

Sweatshops at Sea: Labour Reform in the Thai Seafood Supply Chain via Hybrid Global Governance
Co-investigator: Peter Vandergeest (Geography)
Funding: Formas
Website

Territory, Development and the Remaking of the Northwest Uplands, Vietnam
Principal Investigator: Nga Dao (Social Science)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Transcending Babel in East Asia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1900–1950
Principal Investigator: Joshua Fogel (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Trust and the Political Sociology of Health
Principal Investigator: Cary Wu (Sociology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

University to Work Transitions of International Students in Canada
Principal Investigator: Nancy Mandell (Sociology)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website

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

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For completed programmes and projects, visit our Archive page.