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, city networks, critical development, and inter-Asia engagements. My research particularly looks at how we understand migration and other forms of cross-border partnership like city networks amid geopolitical and demographic crises in developed economies and emerging multipolar geopolitics, and how these positionings reshape discourses on immigration, international relations, and development. My current research projects include:

The twinning of the East discusses how emerging city networks between developed and developing economies in Asia shed light on geopolitical and demographic turbulence in the former rather than benevolence often claimed in international relations and development scholarships. It reveals the unorthodox of North-South relations, one that advocates for the repositioning of Southern economies. 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) are my recent publications.

Inter-Asian migration investigates first, Southeast Asian migration to East Asian destinations. My work looks at marriage migration regimes, marriage/education migration brokerage industry, ethnic entrepreneurship, and post-migration lives of Vietnamese migrants in South Korea. Second, I am working on another aspect of inter-Asian migration, South Koreans’ mobilities to Vietnam, funded by the 2024 Seoul National University Future Leader Fellowship. Inter-Asian North-South migration is no less significant in scale than its South-North counterpart, yet it has been neglected or rather viewed through a different lens (e.g., FDI).