Herbary Cheung
Dr Herbary Cheung is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC).
Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he believes “knowledge is co-produced in ethnographic research”. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and contextual mobility, focusing on Hong Kong-Southeast Asia connections. Herbary has published in high-quality refereed journals, including the Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Sociology, and South East Asia Research. His research outputs have advanced both theoretical and methodological approaches in gendered migration studies, critical family and health studies, and studies on intersectionality, postcolonialism and ethnography. His monograph, Engendering Migration Journey : Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong is published under the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series of Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.
Dr Cheung is an Associate Member of “BelMix” research team, working on migration and conjugal mixedness in Europe-Asia social spaces at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Inspired by “power in unity”, he serves as an executive committee member of The Hong Kong Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees (HKSASR), the first refugee-led organization jointly managed by local Hong Kongers and refugees since 2019.
Selected bibliography
Monograph
- 2023. Engendering Migration Journey : Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong. Palgrave Macmillan : Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Book Series.
Journal Articles
- forthcoming. “Navigating stigmatized motherhood : attempted, absentee and failed mothering experiences of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand”.
- 2023 (with I, Ng). forthcoming. “When mothering alone : Passive-aggressive social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand”.
- 2022. “Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand”, Culture, Health & Sexuality.
- 2022. “Re-defining stigmatization : Intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand”, Journal of Family Studies.
- 2021. “From Thailand to Hong Kong : Reinventing womanhood in the journeys of migrant women”, South East Asia Research, 29(2), 231-247.
- (with I, Ng). 2021. “Navigating the Ethnic Boundary : From ‘In-Between’ to Plural Ethnicities among Thai Middle-Class Migrant Women in Hong Kong”, Journal of Sociology, 58(1), 59-75.
- 2020. “Identity Negotiation of Thai Female Migrants in Hong Kong : Under the Gaze of Buddhism”, Journal of the Siam Society, 108(1), 113-126.
- 2020. “Engendering Transnational Migration : Re-examining Buddhist Thai migrants’ Identity Negotiation in Hong Kong”, Regional Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 5(1), 21-48.
Media Coverage
- 2023. Interviewed by Deutsche Welle (DW) “HIV treatment still undermined by stigma in some areas”.
- 2019. Interviewed by South China Morning Post “‘I can’t eat spicy anymore’ : Hong Kong’s Thai community look back at five decades in the city”.
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