Cai Chen
Cai Chen is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Institute of Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He is a prizewinner of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences (Belgium, 2026) and a recipient of the Vladimir Orloff Subsidy (ULB, 2024).
He holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Transnational Migrations awarded in 2021 by Université de Lille (France), Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (Romania), and Universidad de Granada (Spain). His research interests include queer migration, overseas Chinese, conjugal mixedness, ethnic and race relations, and Africa–China engagements. Cai Chen’s doctoral research explores the ethno-racial dynamics among Sino-Congolese couples living in the postcolonial Democratic Republic of Congo. He previously worked on the interrelationship between migration and sexuality among Chinese gay students in France.
His work has been featured, among others, in Global China Pulse, the Journal of Chinese Overseas, the Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe (Brill, 2024), Lien social et Politiques, and Migrations Société.
