Asian Diaspora

Marshia Akbar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Migration and settlement; geography; identity and intersectionality; South Asian diaspora; ethnic economy; mixed methods research

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Ali Al-Zaidi

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University

Asian art; Orientalism; colonial history; archaeology; Britain; France

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R. Patrick Alcedo

Associate Professor, Department of Dance, York University

Performance of gender; folklorization of religion; world dance in the diaspora; Philippine traditional dances; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Cheryll Alipio

Assistant Professor, Children’s Studies Program, Department of Humanities, York University

Transnational migration, gender and development; economic and medical anthropology; anthropology of children, youth, and care in Southeast Asia, the Asia Pacific and the Philippines

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Asma Atique

Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies

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Himani Bannerji

Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; class formation; women; India; South Asian Diaspora

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Ranu Basu

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; spatial methodologies; subalterity and education in Cuba, India and Canada

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Russell Belk

Kraft Foods Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University

Meanings of possessions; collecting; gift-giving; materialism; East Asia; Asian Diaspora

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Stacey Bliss

Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Education, York University

Cross-cultural ethnography; Levinasian philosophy; contemplative education; possibilities in conceptualizing contemplative literacies; silence and sound in meditative practices

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Jessica Caporusso

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Political ecology; sustainable development; transnational encounters; South Asian Diaspora

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Sabina Chatterjee

Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

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Soma Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Migration and mobility; sovereignty and borders; labour market integration of skilled immigrants; international education migration

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Lily Cho

Chair and Associate Professor, Department of English, York University

Diasporic subjectivity in cultural studies; postcolonial literature and theory; Asian North American and Canadian literature; Chinese Diaspora

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Elena Chou

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

“Race” and racialization; identity and representation; cultural studies; media and popular culture; Asian Diaspora

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Catherine Cua

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Études francophones, Glendon College, York University

Cultural and aesthetic hybridity; literature; East Asian Diaspora; Social semiotic; Visual culture; Children’s literature, Cultural representation, Multiculturalism, Cultural translation

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Tania Das Gupta

Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

South Asian diaspora; race and racism; anti-racism; immigration and refugee issues; state policies; women, work and families

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Ena Dua

Associate Professor, Equity Studies and School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University

Nation, race and gender; immigratio; equitn processes; women and healthy policies; criminalization; racialization of masculinity and femininity; globalization; biodiversity; South Asian Diaspora

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Khem Guragain

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Nepal; South Asia; Buddha; Dalit; Hinduism; identity; representation; nationhood; diaspora

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Yasir Hameed

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Public space; citizen engagement; housing equity; social justice in urban policy, planning and design

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Nadia Z. Hasan

Deputy Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims

Transnational feminism; critical race; postcolonial studies; South Asian Studies; religion and gender; Islam; Pakistan; Muslim women; diaspora and migration; Al-Huda

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Anindo Hazra

Course Director, York University

India; South Asia; South Asian diaspora; queer literature; queer theory; postcolonialism; deconstruction; globalization; Human Rights and the Arts; Global Asia

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Zulfikar Hirji

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Muslim societies; production and performance of identity; roles of art, artists and cultural workers in making social change; socio-legal formation of communal identity; family networks and inter-generational migration; South Asian Diaspora

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Mihyon Jeon

Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Sociolinguistics; language policy; globalization and language; heritage language; language maintenance; Korean language education pedagogy

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Amardeep Kaur

Doctoral Candidate, Geography Department, York University

Power and resistance; postcolonial theory; South Asian diaspora and mobility; transnational feminism; cosmopolitanism, East Asia; Hong Kong

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Ali Kazimi

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University

Race; migration; indignity; history; memory; emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies; South Asian Diaspora; India

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Philip F. Kelly

Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Class and labour markets; immigration; transnational linkages; Filipino Diaspora; Philippines

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Nazilla Khanlou

Women's Health Research Chair in Mental Health, Faculty of Health, York University
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, York University

Community-based mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings

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Ann H. Kim

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Immigrant and ethnic integration processes; spatial manifestations of urban inequality; Korean Diaspora; South Korea

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Lucia Lo

Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Chinese diaspora; immigrant settlement and integration; settlement services; identity and consumption; ethnic economy; ethnic banks; highly skilled migration

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Jia Ma

Associate Profesor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Modern Chinese literature; Chinese North American diasporic literature; Chinese history; Christian cultural influences on Chinese literature; China; Chinese Diaspora

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Sarah Maiter

Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Race and racism; children and youth; child welfare practice and policy for diverse communities; minority youth and their development; anti-oppressive, anti racist practice; mental health practice and policy for diverse ethno-racial groups

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Guida Man

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Immigrant and diaspora communities; women and work; families; transnational migration; qualitative research methods; Chinese Diaspora

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Stein Monteiro

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Program in Economics, York University

Assimilation; economic, cultural, political out-migration; family migration; Nepal; India

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Jean Michel Montsion

Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Acting Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies

Gateway cities; ethnicity; international education; Indigeneity; Singapore, Vancouver

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Arun Mukherjee

Professor, Department of English, York University

Canadian literature; minority Canadian literature; Indian literature; South Asian literature, Dalit literature, diaspora; feminist critical theory; anti-racist literary theory; Postcolonial literature

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Chandan Narayan

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Phonetics; language development in infants; Asian Diaspora

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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages

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Anh Ngo

Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work, York University
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Newcomer settlement; mental health; Southeast Asian Diaspora

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Michael Nijhawan

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Sikh religious formation; religious transnationalism and diaspora formation; India; Sikh Diaspora; Ahmadiyya Diaspora

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Mona Oikawa

Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies; Japanese Canadians

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Min Ah Park

Doctoral Student, Gradaute Programme in English, York University

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Valerie A. Preston

Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Gender and local labour markets; immigration and Canadian cities; social and urban geography; transnationalism and citizenship; Chinese Diaspora

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Jassi Ranauta

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Decoloniality; environmental justice; Punjab; Sikh Diaspora in Canada; lived experience; migration; transnationalism

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Arun Nedra Rodrigo

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Multiculturalism; Asian Diaspora

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Trichy Sankaran

Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, York University

Carnatic music; Indian dance compositions; South Indian classical drumming; Konnakkol; India

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Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy

Master's Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies, York University

Aging refugees; refugee status; access and utilization of health and social care; Tamil Diaspora

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Andrew Seo

Master's Candidate, Public Policy, Administration & Law, York University

Comparative public policy (Asia-Pacific); technology, design and futures studies; labour and political economy

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Lisa Seto Nielsen

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, York University

Palliative care; home care; death and dying; vulnerable groups; racialized immigrants; health care system; Chinese diaspora

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Vasuki Shanmuganathan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health

Health; colonialism; globalization; race; labour; visual culture; gender; sexuality

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Harini Sivalingam

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Socio-legal Studies, York University

Immigration and refugee law; international and domestic human rights; national security law; South Asian Diaspora

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Yukari Takai

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor

Migration history; women and gender, race; Japanese diasporas; North American borders; Japanese prostitution; domestic workers, caregivers and health professionals

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Ethel Tungohan

Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism
Assistant Professor, Departments of Politics and Social Science, York University

Migrant labour; migrant activism

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Rachel Wong

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Asian North American diasporic literature and theory; twentieth century Canadian literature, minority writers; Post Colonial theory; Critical Race theory; cultural studies; literary representations of women and ethnic enclaves

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Yuk-Lin Renita Wong

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Mindfulness, spirituality and social justice; contemplative pedagogy; critical social work; embodiment and decolonization of knowing and knowledge production; gender, colony and nation

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Jie Wu

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University

Place; space; environment; Chinatowns; multiculturalism; settler-colonialism; arts; activism

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Xueqing Xu

Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction; Chinese Diaspora; China

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Harshita Yalamarty

Doctoral Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical transnational feminist and postcolonial theories; women’s movements in India; gendered citizenship practices; religious communities in India; migration and marriage practices; South Asian diaspora

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