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, and critical development, with a geographical focus on Asian and inter-Asia engagements. My research 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 primary work, Inter-Asian Migration, investigates intraregional flows of people, marriage, education, and capital in East Asia, mostly in Vietnamese migration to South Korea. Funded by the 2024 Seoul National University Future Leader Research Grant, I have further expanded my work to include South Korean migration to Vietnam, which is no less significant in scale than its South-North counterpart, yet it has been neglected or rather viewed through a different lens, such as FDI.

To (re)position migrants within a broader picture of contemporary inter-Asian dynamics, and thus a more just understanding of migration and North-South relations, my work on The Twinning of the Global East investigates how emerging city networks between developed and developing economies in Asia shed light on demographic and geopolitical turbulences in the former rather than benevolence or development impacts often claimed for the latter in international relations and development scholarships. 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.