Asian-Canadian youth identities in a pandemic era

  • Khanlou, Nazila (PI)
  • Santos, Luísa (Researcher)
  • Davidson, Deborah (Researcher)
  • Nunes, Fernando (Researcher)
  • Seto Nielsen, Lisa (Researcher)
  • Skop, M. (Researcher)
  • Zangeneh, Masood (Researcher)

Project Details

Description

Asian-Canadian youth identities in a pandemic era: arts-based research, or YouthAre, is a projectwhich hopes to help filling the gap between the growing body of literaturedescribing the pandemic’s health disparities, medical illness and mental healthoutcomes, and the limited focus given to its psychosocial impacts on racializedyouth from an interdisciplinary perspective. By examining Asian-Canadianyouth’s experiences of individual and collective identities through arts-basedresearch methods (visual: Self-Portraits, Relational Maps; drama: ReadersTheatre) and participatory knowledge transfer activities in digital format as well, YouthAre overall benefit will be to increaseunderstanding of racialized youth’s challenges and resilience during thepandemic, to inform youth-centred initiatives, and to increase opportunitiesand resources for youth.

CECCresearcher Luísa Santos participates in this research project.

Short titleAsian-Canadian youth identities in a pandemic era
AcronymYouthAre
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/221/01/25

Collaborative partners

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • Arts-based participatory research approach
  • Asian-Canadian
  • Youth identities
  • Covid-19

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