Justin Wei

Born and raised in Hong Kong, I completed my MPhil in Economic and Social History at Cambridge before continuing on to become a PhD candidate here. Supervised by Dr Mike Joseph, my current research examines the contours of Black-Asian solidarity in Britain throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. I consider how the many diverse manifestations of activism - both local and transnational - around themes including labour, gender, and Third World liberation, fostered sinews of solidary action amongst generations of Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and East Asian migrant communities. I am also interested in understanding how solidarity might be better conceptualised as an analytical category for historians of race and marginalisation. This work is generously funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust, for which I am very thankful.

My previous research centred around Caribbean conceptions of, and British responses to, the New International Economic Order (NIEO) in the sixties and seventies, as a means of unpacking the contested economic afterlives of colonialism.

I serve as a Co-Convenor of the World History Workshop for the 2024-25 academic year. I am also a member of the New York-Cambridge Training Collaboration in Twentieth-Century British History (NYCTC).