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Critical Research Methodologies looks at research as a social justice and transformational process that should speak of people's ways of living without necessarily streamlining them into numbers. The book is a critically reflexive project in terms of returning processes of knowledge production to the local space rather than imagining them as entirely centred in the structure. To imagine this book as a reflexive exercise is to break boundaries of knowledge in ways that come to imagine how the local performs the global in very complicated and complex ways. This book is a resurrection of local knowledges, steeped in creative and imaginative reflexive methodologies that come to reorient how we know what we know, the values and realities that mark what we know, and the how of knowledge production. It centres subjugated voices and knowledges as fundamental in production of knowledge.   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Therefore, we deploy Asian Canadian experiences not as a fixed referent by time and space, but as an ongoing engagement with the settler state and other racialized groups. In other words, we treat Asian Canadian as a process of encounter rather than a given 'identity' we are born into. 'Asian Canadian' might be at best a way of describing how people who either identify as Asians or come from Asian countries experience settler Canada's state power, regulation, and governmentality, within a global capitalist system of exploitation and oppression. Depending on one's immigration status, age, gender, sexuality, ability, and class, those perceived as 'Asian' might have completely different sets of experiences, identifications and affective relationships to settler Canada and their 'places of origins'. 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