Cai Chen is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Chen’s ongoing doctoral research explores the ethno-racial dynamics among Sino-Congolese couples residing 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 in the Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe (Brill, 2024), Journal of Chinese Overseas, and Migrations Société.
In late March 2022, Shanghai imposed its strictest lockdowns since the Covid-19 outbreak two years earlier. Amid China’s stringent zero-Covid policy and crackdown on personal freedoms, internet searches for ‘conditions for immigrating to Canada’ surged, drawing the attention of authorities. To circumvent censorship on emigration-related searches, Chinese netizens adopted the code word run (润), whose […]
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