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 Made in China Journal, the Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe (Brill, 2024), the Journal of Chinese Overseas, and Migrations Société.