Ka-Kin Cheuk is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Southampton. Trained as a social and cultural anthropologist, his research revolves around the study of migration, transnationalism, diaspora, environment, sustainability, ethics, digitalisation, and inter-Asian connections, with ethnographic focuses on China, Hong Kong, India, the Middle East, and the UK. Having conducted ethnographic fieldwork over the past 17 years on the Sikh diaspora in Hong Kong and Indian traders in southeast China, he is currently undertaking a new interdisciplinary project centred on the sustainable development of transnational flower industries and the global circuits of environmental ethics.
Some of his recent publications include “Digital Ethnography as an Inter-Ethnic Reckoning Method” (In The Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar, 2024), “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 2023) and “Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods in the Time of COVID-19: Virtual Fieldtrips, a Web Symposium, and Public Engagement with Asian American Communities in Houston, Texas” (Teaching and Learning Anthropology 4:1, 2021).
From September 2024, Ka-Kin will work with two PhD students on two new interdisciplinary environmental studies projects: (1) “Mapping Everyday Resilience in the Age of Anthropocene: Perspectives from the SMEs in India’s Global City” (fully-funded by the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme for Interdisciplinary Resilience Studies); and (2) “Emerging Knowledge of Flooding in Scotland’s Flower Industries: A Mixed Method Approach” (fully-funded by the Natural Environment Research Council-funded Centre for Doctoral Training for Resilient Flood Futures).
