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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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Item Open Access The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines: A Counter-Project for Livable Homes and an Alternative Lifeworld(2020) Dizon, Hazel M.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 units in Bulacan, a province immediately north of the Philippine capital of Manila.Item Open Access Item Open Access Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India(2014-01-04) Das, Raju; Kumar S., MohanaItem Open Access Can Facebook Usher in Political Inclusion for Afghan Women?(2020-10) Nader, ZahraZahra 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 engage in politics and be heard by their government.Item Open Access Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program(2014-01-04) Kelly, PhilipItem Open Access China’s Bold Economic Statecraft(2015-01-01) Chin, GregoryItem Open Access Chinese Women’s History: Local or Global?(2014-01-04) Judge, JoanItem Open Access Confucius Institutes Worldwide Attempt to Boost Research and Involvement(2014-01-04) Zha, QiangItem Open Access Contemporary Tamil Poems from Sri Lanka: Regional Sensibility and Mainstream Trauma Theory(2015-01-01) Sukumaran, GeethaItem Open Access Desire, Happiness and the Global Economy: Transnational Marriage Abandonment in India(2017-08-12) Yalamarty, HarshitaItem Open Access Development Aid and the Rise of New Donors(2014-01-04) Chin, Gregory; Quadir, FahimulItem Open Access Diaspora Geopolitics (Tamils in Canada)(2021-01) Hyndman, Jennifer; Amarasingam, Amarnath; Naganathan, GayathriJennifer 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 political engagement in terms of violent nationalisms, extremism and threat. Focusing on the Tamil community in Canada, the researchers propose a different view of diaspora nationalisms as transnational, influenced by democratic liberalism, and an expression of and related geopolitics shaped “from below,” within the exiled diaspora.Item Open Access Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All?(2020) Dandurand, GuillaumeExamining 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.Item Open Access Filipino Youth Success in Vancouver(2014-01-04) Mais, JuliaItem Open Access Fishing for Political Control: Tangled Lines of Fishing Activity and Korean Maritime Boundary Disputes(2014-01-04) Song, Andrew M.Item Open Access Gendered World of Issei Women and Men in Japanese Hawai‘i, 1880s–1910s(2020-11) Takai, YukariYukari 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 little-studied: temporary marriage or karifūfu, wife sale and wife brokerage. Through her research she seeks to shed further light on the mailability of marriage practices among issei women and men in Hawai‘i and the power and limitation of the Japanese state, in collaboration with the American state, to impose its gender ideals.Item Open Access Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The Prisms of the Arts(2015-01-01) Cho, Lily; Goossen, Theodore W.; Henders, Susan J.; Hazra, AnindoItem Open Access How Canada contributed to China’s remarkable transformation through university partnerships and knowledge diplomacy(2016-01-01) Hayhoe, Ruth; Pan, Julia; Zha, QiangItem Open Access International Education: An Untapped Archive of Canadian Nation Formation(2017-12-18) CHATTERJEE, SOMAItem Open Access International Higher Education and Social Stratification: Education Migration Narratives of Chinese International Students in Toronto(2020) Pang, GuanglongThe 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 class who aim to move out geographically to move up socio-economically.