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 ethnography rooted in China, Hong Kong, India, the Middle East, Europe, as well as the US and the UK. He has conducted long-term fieldwork on the Sikh diaspora in Hong Kong and Indian diasporic traders in China and is currently completing book manuscripts based on these topics. He is also leading a new interdisciplinary project examining transnational flower industries and the global circuits of environmental ethics. His latest publication is “Beyond Local State Corporatism and Entrepreneurial Political Selves: A Governance Assemblage Perspective on the Management of Foreigners in a Chinese County,” in Mark Frazier and Manjari Mahajan (eds.), Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), an output of his India China Institute Fellowship at the New School for Social Research.
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.