Migration infrastructure, digital connectivity, and porous borders: Vietnamese migration to Australia
Wed, 15 Jan
|Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University
The burgeoning literature on migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) provides rich empirical evidence of how social media and networking platforms are becoming integral to cross-border migration, increasingly blurring the boundaries between physical and virtual worlds.
Date and Venue
15 Jan 2025, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9
Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Professor Lan Anh Hoang (University of Melbourne)
Lan Anh Hoang is Professor in Development Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is author of 'Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty' (Amsterdam University Press 2020), winner of The Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars Book Prize in 2022, and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019). Lan’s research on migration and gender has also been published in many prestigious journals including Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mobilities, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Lan recently completed a project on brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor, and is currently doing fieldwork on Vietnamese undocumented migrants in Japan.
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