About
Ka-Kin Cheuk is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Southampton.
Trained as a social and cultural anthropologist, his research revolves around the study of migration, transnationalism, and inter-Asian connections, with trans-regional ethnographic focuses on China, Hong Kong, India, the Middle East, Europe, as well as the US and the UK. His recent publications include “Transient Migrants at the Crossroads of China’s Global Future” (a special issue on international migration to China in Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 3:1, 2019), “Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods in the time of COVID-19” (Teaching and Learning Anthropology 4:1, 2021), “Making Mumbai (in China)” (in Bombay Brokers, Duke University Press, 2021), “Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai Through Indian Trading Networks” (American Behavioral Scientist 66:2, 2022), “Diasporic Convergence, Sustained Transience and Indifferent Survival: Indian Traders in China” (History and Anthropology 33:2, 2022), “Inter-Asian Hinduism in East Asian Diasporic Nodes through the Material Lens” (in The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diasporas, Oxford University Press, 2023), “Homeland Visit and Transnational Connections: A Study of the Sikhs in Hong Kong and their Family Trips in India” (Hong Kong Studies, 3:2, 2023), and “Beyond Local State Corporatism and Entrepreneurial Political Selves: A Governance Assemblage Perspective on the Management of Foreigners in a Chinese County” (in Expertise and Policymaking in India and China, Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).
He was previously an Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong and an Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies in the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. During his time at Rice University, he received three teaching grants, including Inquiry-based Learning Teaching Grant and Course Development Grant, for developing new, alternative, and de-colonizing teaching methods in Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, and anthropology. Having conducted fieldwork over the past 18 years on Sikh diaspora in Hong Kong and on Indian traders in southeast China, he is currently working on a new project on flower industries and Scotland-China circuits of environmental ethics.