Welcome! I am My Hang (pronounced ‘me hang’). I am the Margaret Anstee Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. My research engages migration studies, transnational urbanism, critical development studies, and inter-Asia engagements. I hold a BEd in Geography from Hanoi National University of Education and an MA and PhD in Geography from Seoul National University. My doctoral dissertation explores the politics of sister city placemaking in city diplomacy initiatives between South Korea and Vietnam, from which I recently published: Repositioning Southern Cities in Transnational City Networks (Urban Geography, 2025) and The Twinning of the Global East (Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2025).

My current project, The Treasure South, examines inter-Asian flows of labour, marriage, capital, and development, between South Korea and Vietnam in particular. It explores how transnational migration and cross-border partnerships like city diplomacy not only contribute remittances, capital and knowledge transfer to development in developing countries, but also play a crucial role in sustaining development in the super-aged societies of Northeast Asia. Drawing on Asian and inter-Asian perspectives, The Treasure South seeks to rethink and reposition the Global South on the world stage and within institutions of knowledge production.