Kevin D. Ming

Dr. Kevin Ming is a public anthropologist engaging ethnographic and multi-disciplinary research with social justice and sustainability. His work focuses on the intersection of development projects of various sorts and the lived experiences of highly vulnerable communities, and in particular, displacement, migration and labor, gender, and urban/rural issues. He has extensive experience designing and directing multi-disciplinary applied research projects for NGOs and non-profits, building educational empowerment programs for disadvantaged youth, and in public consultancy.

Ming’s dissertation was based on long-term field research on the co-constitution of spatial and social marginality in the narratives and experiences of migrant sex workers in southern China and Hong Kong, where, as a Fulbright Fellow at the Women and Gender Education Centre at Sun Yat-sen University, he collaborated with scholar/activists to support gender and labor justice in China. His field research and activism in recent years has focused on issues facing marginalized youth in Hong Kong, and labor and environmental exploitation in the Malaysian oil palm industry