Research
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Latest funding
- $297,387
Mapping Belonging: Japanese Canadian Youth, Archives and Justice-Oriented Futures
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $107,825
Examining the role of mental health trajectories in the development of adolescent substance use and gambling behaviours
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $72,492
Asian Parents Participatory Action (APPA): A Community-University Partnership to Curate an Asian-Centred Approach to Talking about Racism at Home
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Mapping Belonging: Japanese Canadian Youth, Archives and Justice-Oriented Futures
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Examining the role of mental health trajectories in the development of adolescent substance use and gambling behaviours
Principal investigators: Fletcher, Émilie
Keywords: psychology; behavioural problems; externalizing problems; internalizing problems; substance use; gambling
Asian Parents Participatory Action (APPA): A Community-University Partnership to Curate an Asian-Centred Approach to Talking about Racism at Home
Principal investigators: Fang, Lin
Keywords: anti-Asian racism; parents; participatory action research; community-university collaboration; Asian-centred approach
Inter-weaving dialogues across generations and differences: (Re)braiding identities and activism of Japanese Canadians for anti-racist and decolonial futures
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Keywords: Japanese Canadian identities; anti-Asian racism; cultural negotiation; critical consciousness; grounded theory; immigrant identity; community organizing; social movements; decolonial psychology; critical acculturation studies; art and activism
Inter-weaving dialogues across generations and differences: (Re)braiding identities and activism of Japanese Canadians for anti-racist and decolonial futures
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Keywords: Japanese Canadian identities; anti-Asian racism; cultural negotiation; critical consciousness; grounded theory; immigrant identity; community organizing; social movements; decolonial psychology; critical acculturation studies; art and activism
Arts Organizing as Antidote to State-Based Racial Violence: Imagining Japanese Canadian Genealogies and Relationships Through the Powell Street Festival
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Keywords: art-activism; community history; racism; community organizing; arts and culture; resistance; narrative; oral history; Japanese Canadian; inter-group relationships; displacement; Japanese Canadian mass incarceration; Asian Canadian movement
Many faces of Japanese Canadians: remembering inter-generational trauma and renewing cultural identity through activism, art and community-building in a disappearing ethnic group
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Keywords: ethnic and cultural identity; intergenerational trauma; Japanese Canadian internment; community organizing; social work; multiple case studies; art practice for social change; community empowerment; arts-based research; citizenship; Asian Canadian
Navigating cultural worlds: understanding how mainland Chinese immigrants negotiate cross-cultural experiences
Principal investigators: Fang, Lin
Keywords: cross-culturation negotiation; adolescents; immigrant families; hybridity; mainland Chinese
Do skilled immigrants need Canadian (work) experience: public engagement and conversation through new media and reader's theatre
Principal investigators: Sakamoto, Izumi
Keywords: immigration; skilled immigrants; culture; acculturation; labour market; employment challenges
Socially Engaged Citizenship as a Pathway to Health Equity for Displaced Populations: Addressing the Complexity, Innovating the Practice
Principal investigators: Poland, Blake D; Gastaldo, Denise
Keywords: Community Of Practice; Community-Based Research; Environmental Health; Health Citizenship; Health Equity; Inclusive Methodologies; Knowledge Translation; Migrant Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Engagement
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