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 am particularly interested in how we understand international migration and other forms of cross-border partnership amid demographic crises in the developed world and emerging multipolar geopolitics, and how these positionings reshape discourses on immigration, international relations, and development. 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 under South Korea-Vietnam city diplomacy programmes, 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).
