• Ethnicity and racialization
  
• Canadian cities and gateways
  
• Community politics and engagement, including volunteering
  
• Post-secondary education and international students
  
• Migration and mobility
  
• Emotional landscapes
  
• Canada, Southeast Asia, Canada-Asia
• Transport investment and democratic process

Doctorate:
Political Science (McMaster University)
Masters:
Political Science (Ottawa University)

Journal Articles

• D Brunelle, PV Hall, C De Fuentes, JM Montsion. 2021. Global Value Chains and Regimes of Urban Governance: A Comparison of Four Canadian Gateway Cities. Canadian Journal of Urban Research 30(1): 1-15.
  
• JM Montsion. 2020. Making Sense of One’s Feelings: The Emotional Labour of Chinese International Students in Canadian Universities. Migration, Mobility and Displacement 5(1): 3-19. Sommaire
  
• D Bousfield, HL Johnson, JM Montsion. 2019. Racialized Hearts and Minds: Emotional Labour and Affective Leadership in the Teaching/Learning of IR. International Studies Perspectives 20(2): 170-87. Sommaire
  
• JM Montsion. 2018. Ethnography and International Relations: Situating Recent Trends, Debates and Limitations from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. The Journal of Chinese Sociology 5(9): 1-21. Sommaire
• JM Montsion, A Parasram. 2018. The Little Nyonya and Singapore’s National Self: Reflections on Aesthetics, Ethnicity and Postcolonial State Formation. Postcolonial Studies 21(2): 154-71. Sommaire
  
• JM Montsion. 2018. Resource Centre or Experience Desk? Producing Spaces for Delivering Services to Indigenous and International Students at Universities in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Higher Education 48(1): 132-47.Sommaire
  
• JM Montsion. 2016. "Diplomacy as Self-Representation: British Columbia First Nations and China", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(4): 404-25. Sommaire
• JM Montsion, SK Tan. 2016. "Smell this: Singapore's Curry Day and Visceral Citizenship", Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 37(2): 209-23. Sommaire
• JM Montsion. 2015. "Disrupting Canadian Sovereignty? The 'First Nations & China' Strategy Revisited", Geoforum 58: 114-21.  Sommaire  
• JM Montsion. 2015. "Patrolling Chineseness: Singapore's Kowloon Club and the Ethnic Adaptation of Hong Kongese to Singaporean Society", Asian Ethnicity 16(1): 92-109. Ré-imprimé dans Chih-yu Shih (ed). 2016. Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia: Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives, New York: Routledge.  Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion. 2015. "Churchill, Manitoba and the Arctic Gateway: A Historical Contextualization", The Canadian Geographer 59(3): 304-16   Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion. 2014. "Chinese Ethnicities in Neoliberal Singapore? State Designs and Dialect(ical) Struggles of Community Associations", Ethnic and Racial Studies 37(9): 1486-504.  Sommaire  
  
• W Vrasti, JM Montsion. 2014. "No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded: The Values/Virtues of Transnational Volunteerism in Neoliberal Capital", Global Society 28(3): 336-55. Ré-imprimé dans Anne-Marie D'Aoust (ed). 2015. Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality, New York: Routledge.  Sommaire  
  
• D Bousfield, JM Montsion. 2012. “Transforming an International Organization? Norm Confusion and the International Olympic Committee”, Sport in Society 15(6): 823-38. Ré-imprimé dans Ramon Spaaj and Cindy Burleson (eds). 2013. The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacekeeping, New York: Routledge.  Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion. 2012. “When Talent Meets Mobility: Un/desirability in Singapore’s New Citizenship Project”, Citizenship Studies 16(3-4): 469-82.  Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion. 2012. “A Critique of Everyday International Relations: The Case of Cultural Pluralism in Singapore and Vancouver”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(5): 930-46.  Sommaire
  
• JM Montsion. 2011. “Softening Canada’s Gateway to the Asia Pacific? Community Perspectives on Vancouver’s International Visage”, Canadian Journal of Urban Research 20(2): 36-55.  Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion. 2010. “Research Im/possibilities: Reflections from Everyday International Relations”, Altérités 7(2): 79-94.  Plein texte (PDF)  
  
• JM Montsion. 2009. “Re-locating Politics at the Gateway: Everyday Life in Singapore’s Global Schoolhouse”, Pacific Affairs 82(4): 637-56  Sommaire  
  
• JM Montsion, R Stubbs. 2007. “Le pouvoir des plus faibles: L’ANASE et le projet de coopération régionale en Asie de l’Est”, Études internationales 38(2): 167-88.  Plein texte (HTML)  

Book Chapters

• JM Montsion. 2019. Adapting to China’s Students at the Gateway: Stories from Chinese Community Associations and their New Student Members. In Kim, A., Kwak, M.J. (eds). Outward and Upward Mobilities in Canada: International Students, their Families and Structuring Institutions, pp. 139-58. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 
• JM Montsion. 2019. Singapore’s Quest for Foreign Talent, Chinese Migrant Workers and the Growing Citizen-Foreigner Divide. In Tyson, A. (ed). The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore, pp. 36-58. New York: Routledge.
  
• J Loder, JM Montsion, R Stubbs. 2011. “Comparing East Asian and European Union Regionalism” in Robinson, N., Rosamond, B. and Warleigh-Lack, A. (eds). New Regionalism and the European Union: Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions, pp. 80-96. New York: Routledge.
  
• JM Montsion. 2008. (Mis)Conceptualizing Labour Repression in Southeast Asian Societies: Manifesting (Im)Possibilities Through Social Rhythms. In JM Montsion and S Sabra (eds). Global Tensions, Global Possibilities: Everyday Forces of Conformity and Contestation, Working Paper Series 8(2), Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition: 137-143
  

Other Publications

• JM Montsion. 2021. Invited review of Identity and Social Networks: A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in the United States, by Cynthia Baiqing Zhang, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 50(1): 96-97.
  

• JM Montsion. 2020. Review of Le Canada: une culture de métissage / Transcultural Canada, by Paul D. Morris (ed), The Canadian Geographer 64(2): e15-e16.

• JM Montsion. 2017. Compte-rendu de “Emotions, Community, and Citizenship: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives." Emotion, Space and Society 24(1): 42-43.

• York University's President University-Wide Teaching Award (2015)
  
• Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2017)
• York Research Leader (2017)
• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2018-23)
• Principal’s Research Excellence Award, Glendon College, York University (2018)
  

• 2011. Principal investigator. Framing Canada's Arctic Gateway: Reflections from Churchill, Iqaluit and Winnipeg (Grant of $5,000). Part of a SSHRC ASU Grant at the University of Winnipeg.
  
• 2013-14. Principal investigator. Indigenous and International Education in Ontario Universities (MTCU/OHCRIF Grant of $15,913 & Glendon internal funding of $2,000). Co-investigator: Chelsea Gabel, McMaster University.
  
• 2015. Principal investigator. From Ethnic Tensions to a Citizen/Foreigner Divide in Singapore (Canada-Asia Agenda/APF Canada Grant of $1,000).
  
• 9 February 2016. Co-organizer. Colloquium on the Language Policy Implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Responsibilities of Post-Secondary Education Institutions (Multiple funding sources: $3,500). Co-organizers: Ian Martin, Maya Chacaby and Amos Key Jr.
• 2017-2021. Co-applicant. Free Trade, Governance and Municipal Democracy. Comparative Study of Four Canadian Cities: Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver (SSHRC Insight Grant of $184,000). Principal investigator: Dorval Brunelle, UQÀM. Co-applicants: Claudia De Fuentes, SMU; Peter Hall, SFU.
• 2018-2019. Co-applicant. Francophone Newcomers and Social Integration to Toronto: On the Use of Volunteering and Other Forms of Work Experience (Glendon Research Fund Grant of $2,500). Co-applicants: Francis Garon, Glendon; Audrey Pyée, Glendon.
• 2019. Co-applicant. Language, Identity and Heritage Preservation in Global Chinese Communities (National Geographic Exploration grant with support from Asia Pacific Foundation (APF) of Canada for a total of $50,090). Co-applicants: Erin Williams, APF Canada; Justin Kwan, APF Canada; Junjia Ye, Nanyang Technological University.
• 2019-2023. Principal investigator. Asian International Students to Canadian Universities: Examining the Racialization of Chinese, Korean and Indian Students in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver (SSHRC Insight Grant of $285,882). Co-applicants and collaborators: Elizabeth Buckner (OISE), Elic Chan (UBC), Soma Chatterjee (York), Ann Kim (York), Marie-Odile Magnan (UdeM), Ajay Parasram (Dal), Shirin Shahrokni (York), Lori Wilkinson (UManitoba).
  
• 2021. Co-applicant. ARC: Adaptation, Resilience and Change in the North. 2021 ACUNS/AECUN Student Conference (SSHRC Connection Grant of $13,250). Principal investigator: Laura McKinnon, Glendon. Co-applicant: Gabrielle Slowey, York.