L A Hoang
Biographic Data
| ID | 70737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L A Hoang |
| GIVEN NAMES | L A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoang |
| SIGNATURE | HOANG L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3763-5272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Digital Borders and Bordering Along the Vietnam-Australia Migration Corridor
Research on borders and bordering tends to focus on state-society relationships as well as the distinctions between insiders and outsiders, thereby glossing over the social hierarchies and internal politics of belonging among those on the move. As social media and networking platforms are becoming integral to cross-border migration, it is highly likely the very first borders that migrants encounter are virtual and internal. Drawing on 71 life his…
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia
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. Drawing from a qualitative study conducted between 2019 and 2023 on the Vietnam–Australia migration corridor, I discuss how virtual communities and digitall…
Mobility and citizenship pathways of Vietnamese middling migrants in Australia: Road to Mount OlymPR
Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations
Transnational migration entails profound changes to gender subjectivities and family structures, social networks and urban landscapes, and lifestyles and aspirations. Pandemic-induced immobilities have led many to question the assumed links between migration and mobility, and heightened interest in mobility inequalities. This research note offers critical insights into the “immobility turn” scholarship and highlights the gaps in our understanding…
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: Insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor
Migration and mobility tend to be used interchangeably in migration studies. This runs the risk of oversimplifying migrants’ (im)mobility aspirations and capability, taking for granted their agency and control of their own migration trajectory. Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrants trading at Moscow markets, this paper offers original insights into migrant immobilities, highlighting the social technologies and social imaginaries…
Vietnamese in Moscow: Irregular migration and development in South-South corridors
Scholarly research on migration to post-Soviet Russia is remarkably scant despite the fact that the country has been listed by the International Organization for Migration as the second most important destination in the world and one of the ten largest sources of remittances since 2005. As of 2019, there were 11.6 million international migrants in Russia, the majority of whom were citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This off…
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow’s wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political …
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty
Debt and (un)freedoms: The case of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
The Vietnam Women’s Union and the Contradictions of a Socialist Gender Regime
Vietnam’s transition from a centrally planned economy to a “socialist market economy under state guidance” since the late 1980s has provided women with unprecedented opportunities. Their increased mobility and economic power notwithstanding, Vietnamese women continue to be essentialised as mothers and carers in public discourse while their professional achievements and public lives are ostensibly de-emphasised. As the largest state institution ta…
Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: The Case of Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan
The phenomenon of ‘runaway’ migrant contract workers in Asia has attracted considerable media attention. Drawing on a qualitative study in Vietnam and Taiwan, I examine the critical links between the neoliberal governmentality rationalities and technologies, the structural vulnerabilities that they produce, and the migrant worker's ‘technologies of the self’. In so doing, I point out that the ‘manufacturing’ of the ‘ideal’ migrant subject is a mu…
Moral Dilemmas of Transnational Migration: Vietnamese Women in Taiwan
Given that care duties are central to the definition of motherhood across contexts, an extended separation from the woman's family due to migration presents a major threat to her social identity as a mother and wife. Drawing on West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' and ethnographic research on Vietnamese low-waged contract workers in Taiwan, I provide vital insights into the discursive processes and everyday practices that underlie migran…
Vietnamese migrant networks in Taiwan: The Curse and Boon of Social Capital
Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrant workers in Taiwan, I seek to engage with and contribute to the scholarship on migrant networks and social capital. My research demonstrates that migrant networks are central to the social life of Vietnamese workers, offering not only a vital source of material and psychological support but also a platform where relationships are developed, sustained and contested. It reveals both productive a…
Post-Soviet governmentality and migration securitization in Russia
Children's agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
In this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision-making and transnational communication shape the children's imaginations of mig…
Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in South-east Asia
Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia - and in particular the feminisation of these movements - suggest that millions of children are growing up in transnational families, separated from their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind children and to understand the…
I'd do it for love or for money: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality
Drawing on an ethnographic research in Vietnam and Taiwan, this article seeks to contribute to the global scholarship on migration and sexuality. It reveals interesting contradictions between the seemingly homogeneous stereotypes of Vietnamese women's sexuality, on the one hand, and the multiplicity and fluidity of actual sexual practices in real-life contexts, on the other hand. First, the presence of a number of chaste migrant women in our stud…
Securing a Better Living Environment for Left-Behind Children: Implications and Challenges for Policies
Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well as living arrangements. The sustainability of geographically-split family formations is dependent on several factors, including the presence and strength of care support networks among migrants and their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure and the stability of the families' financial resources. Draw…
Report for Children's Geographies: Inter-Asia roundtable on transnational migration and children in Asian contexts
Sustaining Families across Transnational Spaces: Vietnamese Migrant Parents and their Left-Behind Children
10.1080/10357823.2012.711810
Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family
Recent increases in female labour migration in and from Asia have triggered a surge of interest in how the absence of the mother and wife for extended periods of time affects the left-behind family, particularly children, in labour-sending countries. While migration studies in the region have shown that the extended family, especially female relatives, is often called on for support in childcare during the mother's absence it is not yet clear how…
Gendered networks and migration decision-making in Northern Vietnam
This paper examines the gender aspect of migrant networks, particularly the different ways networks are expected to assist men's or women's migration during migration decision-making processes. Through the case study of a farming community in Northern Vietnam, it shows that migrant networks are not gender neutral and, more importantly, men and women capitalise on different functions of networks to facilitate their migratory endeavours. Whilst men…
Gender Identity and Agency in Migration Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines the influences of gender as an identity on an individual's ability to exercise agency in decision-making about internal migration in Vietnam. Women and men exert agency with reference to prevailing social norms in order to negotiate for or against their own migration and that of others. It has been well recognised that, beyond sex, their specific gender identity as mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, husbands or wives, etc.…
Breadwinning Wives and 'Left-Behind' Husbands: Men and Masculinities in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
This article explores an aspect of women's transnational labor migration that has been understudied in many labor-sending countries: how men experience shifts in the household labor division triggered by women's migration. In so doing, we shed light on the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being reworked and renegotiated in the transnational family. Drawing on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with ca…
Social networks and information access: Implications for agricultural extension in a rice farming community in northern Vietnam
Breadwinning Wives and 'Left-Behind' Husbands: Men and Masculinities in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
This article explores an aspect of women's transnational labor migration that has been understudied in many labor-sending countries: how men experience shifts in the household labor division triggered by women's migration. In so doing, we shed light on the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being reworked and renegotiated in the transnational family. Drawing on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with ca…
Sustaining Families across Transnational Spaces: Vietnamese Migrant Parents and their Left-Behind Children
10.1080/10357823.2012.711810
Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in South-east Asia
Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia - and in particular the feminisation of these movements - suggest that millions of children are growing up in transnational families, separated from their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind children and to understand the…
Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family
Recent increases in female labour migration in and from Asia have triggered a surge of interest in how the absence of the mother and wife for extended periods of time affects the left-behind family, particularly children, in labour-sending countries. While migration studies in the region have shown that the extended family, especially female relatives, is often called on for support in childcare during the mother's absence it is not yet clear how…
Gender Identity and Agency in Migration Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines the influences of gender as an identity on an individual's ability to exercise agency in decision-making about internal migration in Vietnam. Women and men exert agency with reference to prevailing social norms in order to negotiate for or against their own migration and that of others. It has been well recognised that, beyond sex, their specific gender identity as mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, husbands or wives, etc.…
Debt and (un)freedoms: The case of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
Gendered networks and migration decision-making in Northern Vietnam
This paper examines the gender aspect of migrant networks, particularly the different ways networks are expected to assist men's or women's migration during migration decision-making processes. Through the case study of a farming community in Northern Vietnam, it shows that migrant networks are not gender neutral and, more importantly, men and women capitalise on different functions of networks to facilitate their migratory endeavours. Whilst men…
Moral Dilemmas of Transnational Migration: Vietnamese Women in Taiwan
Given that care duties are central to the definition of motherhood across contexts, an extended separation from the woman's family due to migration presents a major threat to her social identity as a mother and wife. Drawing on West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' and ethnographic research on Vietnamese low-waged contract workers in Taiwan, I provide vital insights into the discursive processes and everyday practices that underlie migran…
I'd do it for love or for money: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality
Drawing on an ethnographic research in Vietnam and Taiwan, this article seeks to contribute to the global scholarship on migration and sexuality. It reveals interesting contradictions between the seemingly homogeneous stereotypes of Vietnamese women's sexuality, on the one hand, and the multiplicity and fluidity of actual sexual practices in real-life contexts, on the other hand. First, the presence of a number of chaste migrant women in our stud…
Vietnamese migrant networks in Taiwan: The Curse and Boon of Social Capital
Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrant workers in Taiwan, I seek to engage with and contribute to the scholarship on migrant networks and social capital. My research demonstrates that migrant networks are central to the social life of Vietnamese workers, offering not only a vital source of material and psychological support but also a platform where relationships are developed, sustained and contested. It reveals both productive a…
Children's agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
In this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision-making and transnational communication shape the children's imaginations of mig…
Social networks and information access: Implications for agricultural extension in a rice farming community in northern Vietnam
Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: The Case of Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan
The phenomenon of ‘runaway’ migrant contract workers in Asia has attracted considerable media attention. Drawing on a qualitative study in Vietnam and Taiwan, I examine the critical links between the neoliberal governmentality rationalities and technologies, the structural vulnerabilities that they produce, and the migrant worker's ‘technologies of the self’. In so doing, I point out that the ‘manufacturing’ of the ‘ideal’ migrant subject is a mu…
The Vietnam Women’s Union and the Contradictions of a Socialist Gender Regime
Vietnam’s transition from a centrally planned economy to a “socialist market economy under state guidance” since the late 1980s has provided women with unprecedented opportunities. Their increased mobility and economic power notwithstanding, Vietnamese women continue to be essentialised as mothers and carers in public discourse while their professional achievements and public lives are ostensibly de-emphasised. As the largest state institution ta…
Securing a Better Living Environment for Left-Behind Children: Implications and Challenges for Policies
Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well as living arrangements. The sustainability of geographically-split family formations is dependent on several factors, including the presence and strength of care support networks among migrants and their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure and the stability of the families' financial resources. Draw…
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia
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. Drawing from a qualitative study conducted between 2019 and 2023 on the Vietnam–Australia migration corridor, I discuss how virtual communities and digitall…
Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations
Transnational migration entails profound changes to gender subjectivities and family structures, social networks and urban landscapes, and lifestyles and aspirations. Pandemic-induced immobilities have led many to question the assumed links between migration and mobility, and heightened interest in mobility inequalities. This research note offers critical insights into the “immobility turn” scholarship and highlights the gaps in our understanding…
Mobility and citizenship pathways of Vietnamese middling migrants in Australia: Road to Mount OlymPR
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: Insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor
Migration and mobility tend to be used interchangeably in migration studies. This runs the risk of oversimplifying migrants’ (im)mobility aspirations and capability, taking for granted their agency and control of their own migration trajectory. Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrants trading at Moscow markets, this paper offers original insights into migrant immobilities, highlighting the social technologies and social imaginaries…
Report for Children's Geographies: Inter-Asia roundtable on transnational migration and children in Asian contexts
Post-Soviet governmentality and migration securitization in Russia
The Samba Role Play Game in Northern Vietnam: An Innovative Approach to Participatory Natural Resource Management
The present article describes an experiment using the SAMBA role play game as a research tool in Bac Kan province of Vietnam, in the framework of the Mountain Agrarian Systems Program, a joint research project of the Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute, the International Rice Research Institute, the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement. The role…
Social networks and information access: Implications for agricultural extension in a rice farming community in northern Vietnam
Gendered networks and migration decision-making in Northern Vietnam
This paper examines the gender aspect of migrant networks, particularly the different ways networks are expected to assist men's or women's migration during migration decision-making processes. Through the case study of a farming community in Northern Vietnam, it shows that migrant networks are not gender neutral and, more importantly, men and women capitalise on different functions of networks to facilitate their migratory endeavours. Whilst men…
Gender Identity and Agency in Migration Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines the influences of gender as an identity on an individual's ability to exercise agency in decision-making about internal migration in Vietnam. Women and men exert agency with reference to prevailing social norms in order to negotiate for or against their own migration and that of others. It has been well recognised that, beyond sex, their specific gender identity as mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, husbands or wives, etc.…
Breadwinning Wives and 'Left-Behind' Husbands: Men and Masculinities in the Vietnamese Transnational Family
This article explores an aspect of women's transnational labor migration that has been understudied in many labor-sending countries: how men experience shifts in the household labor division triggered by women's migration. In so doing, we shed light on the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being reworked and renegotiated in the transnational family. Drawing on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with ca…
Report for Children's Geographies: Inter-Asia roundtable on transnational migration and children in Asian contexts
Sustaining Families across Transnational Spaces: Vietnamese Migrant Parents and their Left-Behind Children
10.1080/10357823.2012.711810
Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family
Recent increases in female labour migration in and from Asia have triggered a surge of interest in how the absence of the mother and wife for extended periods of time affects the left-behind family, particularly children, in labour-sending countries. While migration studies in the region have shown that the extended family, especially female relatives, is often called on for support in childcare during the mother's absence it is not yet clear how…
Securing a Better Living Environment for Left-Behind Children: Implications and Challenges for Policies
Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well as living arrangements. The sustainability of geographically-split family formations is dependent on several factors, including the presence and strength of care support networks among migrants and their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure and the stability of the families' financial resources. Draw…
Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in South-east Asia
Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia - and in particular the feminisation of these movements - suggest that millions of children are growing up in transnational families, separated from their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind children and to understand the…
I'd do it for love or for money: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality
Drawing on an ethnographic research in Vietnam and Taiwan, this article seeks to contribute to the global scholarship on migration and sexuality. It reveals interesting contradictions between the seemingly homogeneous stereotypes of Vietnamese women's sexuality, on the one hand, and the multiplicity and fluidity of actual sexual practices in real-life contexts, on the other hand. First, the presence of a number of chaste migrant women in our stud…
Post-Soviet governmentality and migration securitization in Russia
Children's agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
In this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision-making and transnational communication shape the children's imaginations of mig…
Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: The Case of Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan
The phenomenon of ‘runaway’ migrant contract workers in Asia has attracted considerable media attention. Drawing on a qualitative study in Vietnam and Taiwan, I examine the critical links between the neoliberal governmentality rationalities and technologies, the structural vulnerabilities that they produce, and the migrant worker's ‘technologies of the self’. In so doing, I point out that the ‘manufacturing’ of the ‘ideal’ migrant subject is a mu…
Moral Dilemmas of Transnational Migration: Vietnamese Women in Taiwan
Given that care duties are central to the definition of motherhood across contexts, an extended separation from the woman's family due to migration presents a major threat to her social identity as a mother and wife. Drawing on West and Zimmerman's notion of 'doing gender' and ethnographic research on Vietnamese low-waged contract workers in Taiwan, I provide vital insights into the discursive processes and everyday practices that underlie migran…
Vietnamese migrant networks in Taiwan: The Curse and Boon of Social Capital
Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrant workers in Taiwan, I seek to engage with and contribute to the scholarship on migrant networks and social capital. My research demonstrates that migrant networks are central to the social life of Vietnamese workers, offering not only a vital source of material and psychological support but also a platform where relationships are developed, sustained and contested. It reveals both productive a…
The Vietnam Women’s Union and the Contradictions of a Socialist Gender Regime
Vietnam’s transition from a centrally planned economy to a “socialist market economy under state guidance” since the late 1980s has provided women with unprecedented opportunities. Their increased mobility and economic power notwithstanding, Vietnamese women continue to be essentialised as mothers and carers in public discourse while their professional achievements and public lives are ostensibly de-emphasised. As the largest state institution ta…
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow’s wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political …
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty
Debt and (un)freedoms: The case of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
Vietnamese in Moscow: Irregular migration and development in South-South corridors
Scholarly research on migration to post-Soviet Russia is remarkably scant despite the fact that the country has been listed by the International Organization for Migration as the second most important destination in the world and one of the ten largest sources of remittances since 2005. As of 2019, there were 11.6 million international migrants in Russia, the majority of whom were citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This off…
Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations
Transnational migration entails profound changes to gender subjectivities and family structures, social networks and urban landscapes, and lifestyles and aspirations. Pandemic-induced immobilities have led many to question the assumed links between migration and mobility, and heightened interest in mobility inequalities. This research note offers critical insights into the “immobility turn” scholarship and highlights the gaps in our understanding…
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: Insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor
Migration and mobility tend to be used interchangeably in migration studies. This runs the risk of oversimplifying migrants’ (im)mobility aspirations and capability, taking for granted their agency and control of their own migration trajectory. Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrants trading at Moscow markets, this paper offers original insights into migrant immobilities, highlighting the social technologies and social imaginaries…
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia
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. Drawing from a qualitative study conducted between 2019 and 2023 on the Vietnam–Australia migration corridor, I discuss how virtual communities and digitall…
Mobility and citizenship pathways of Vietnamese middling migrants in Australia: Road to Mount OlymPR
Migration and Labor Dynamics (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Vietnamese (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Social science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (10 works)