Contact info

For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

Global Asia Program at SFU

Research process

Start Your Research Here -- This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.

Selected dictionaries and encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of modern Asia
• Encyclopedia of modern China
• Handbook on ethnic minorities in China
• Routledge encyclopedia of traditional Chinese culture
• Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations
• Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands
• Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society
• Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora
• Routledge handbook of East Asian gender studies
• Routledge handbook of East Asian popular culture
• Routledge handbook of human rights in Asia
• Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora
• Routledge handbook of Indian transnationalism
• Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia
• Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora
• Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development
• Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender

Find journal articles

How to find journal articles
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below. 
Use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database or to request the article through Inter-Library Loans.

Women's Studies International
For issues related to gender, sexuality and women's studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Periodicals, individually authored monographs (published 1971 to 1992 only), chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on East, Southeast, and South Asia.

Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, dissertations on the history of the world outside, excluding Canada and the United States, since 1450. Access is limited to 6 users at a time. Users will be automatically logged out of the database after 12 minutes of inactivity.

International Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts of political science articles published in journals and yearbooks around the world. Coverage from 1951 to present

Find books, book chapters, journal articles

The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more.  To limit the search results to "books", use the filter (left-hand column in search results) to "resource type" of "books."

Library Catalogue search guide

Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search

Note:  These have been limited to "Resource type" of "Books" and can also be limited to "Subject" (left-hand column)

• (BC OR british columbia OR Canad*) AND (Asia* OR "South Asia*" OR "East Asia*") AND (settle* OR immigra* OR diaspora*)
• (BC OR british columbia OR Canad*) AND (Korea* OR Vietnam* OR China* OR Indonesia*) AND (settle* OR immigra* OR diaspora*)
• Japanese diaspora
• "migrant work*" AND (Hong Kong OR China OR Taiwan)
• "migrant work*" AND (India OR Sri Lanka OR Pakistan OR Burma OR Nepal)
• "migrant work*" AND (Japan OR Thailand OR Korea OR Cambodia OR Vietnam OR Philippines OR Singapore)
• "return migration" AND (China OR India OR Japan OR Korea OR South Asia OR East Asia)
• "transnational mobility" AND (China OR Chinese OR India OR Japan* OR Korea* OR South Asia* OR East Asia*)
• diaspor* AND (China OR Chinese OR India OR Japan* OR Korea* OR South Asia* OR East Asia*)
• (cultur* OR food OR cuisine*) AND (migrat* OR diaspor* OR global*) AND (South Asia* OR India OR Japan OR Thailand OR Korea OR Cambodia OR Vietnam OR Philippines OR Singapore)
• Hallyu
• Bollywood

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Use pulldown menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Selected books

• Asian Migrations: Social and Geographical Mobilities in Southeast, East, and Northeast Asia
• Beyond Bollywood : the cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film
• Bollywood and globalization the global power of popular Hindi cinema
• Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese in Canada
• Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Chinese in Canada
• Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam
• Contemporary Chinese Diasporas
• Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia
• Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
• Diasporic Returns to the Ethnic Homeland: The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective
• Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture
• Downwardly global : women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora
• End of cool Japan : ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture
• Follow the maid : domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia
• Food Tourism in Asia
• From Migrant to Worker : Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
• Gender, work and migration : agency in gendered labour settings
• Global Beauty, Local Bodies
• Global Chinese cinema : the culture and politics of Hero
• Globalized Eating Cultures Mediation and Mediatization
• Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
• Imperialism and Sikh Migration: The Komagata Maru Incident
• Indigenization and Hybridization of Food Cultures in Singapore
• Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures
• Japanese in Canada
• Koreans in North America: their twenty-first century experiences
• Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience: A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada
• Non-traditional security in Asia : dilemmas in securitization
• Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada
• Punjabis in British Columbia : location, labour, First Nations, and multiculturalism
• Sikh Diaspora in Japan
• Sikhs in Canada : migration, race, class, and gender [print]
• South Asia migration report 2020 : exploitation, entrepreneurship and engagement
• South Asian Diaspora: Transnational networks and changing identities
• Thailand's hidden workforce Burmese migrant women factory workers
• Transnational migration and Asia : the question of return
• Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada
• Urban Food Culture Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the Twentieth Century

Subject headings

Browse Books in the Library Catalogue Using Subject Headings

Catalogue Search / Browse then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter your subject term, for example:

• Chinese -- Canada
• Chinese Canadians
• Chinese diaspora
• East Indian Canadians
• East Indians -- Canada
• East Indian diaspora
• Food habits
• Food habits -- [name of country or region]
• Japanese -- Canada
• Migrant labor
• Migrant labor -- China
• Motion pictures and globalization
• Popular culture and globalization
• Sikhs -- Canada
• Women Migrant labor

Library guides

• Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
• Annotated bibliographies
• Evaluating sources
• How to find journal articles
• Library Catalogue search guide
• What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
• What is plagiarism?  Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them

Presentation skills

• Resources on developing your participation skills
• Resources to help you improve your presentation skills

Writing help

See the Student Learning Commons for expert and friendly help with academic writing, learning, and study strategies.