國立成功大學多元文化研究中心

【Speaker】Lan Anh Hoang（墨爾本大學社會與政治科學發展研究教授） 

【Time】10am-12pm, 6/14, Friday, 2024

【Venue】 台文系館88155

【Moderator】台文系曾薰慧助理教授

【Organizers】主辦單位：台灣文學系

協辦單位：性別與婦女研究中心、多元文化研究中心

不須報名，直接參與

【Abstract】

Globalisation and the digital boom have reconfigured the global economic order, engendered new possibilities and aspirations, and altered the meanings of migration. Within the past three decades. Asia has emerged as the second largest destination in the world, having experienced the most remarkable growth in intraregional migration. Intraregional migration has also become a key feature in Africa and South America as iunigration and border regimes are increasingly hardened in Europe and North America. However, existing migration theories are largely based on empirical research on South-North migration, resulting in a significant knowledge gap about the people who migrate and those who stay put as well as the implications of new migration pathways and regimes for individuals, cconomies, and societies. In this talk, I draw from empirical research conducted over the last 20 years in Vietnam, Taiwan, Russia, and Australia to show how transnational migration is imagined, mediated, and experienced in the Digital Age. With a focus on migrant networks and the migration industry at the intersection of social-digital spheres, I highlight transformational effects of the digital boom on migrants' aspirations and practices. Digital divides create uneven mobility pathways, reproducing and exacerbating social inequalities among people on the move and those who stay behind.

【About the speaker】

Lan Anh Hoang is Professor in Development Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is author of 'Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty' (Amsterdam University Press 2020), winner of The Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars Book Prize in 2022, and co-editor of 'Transnational Labour Migration. Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and 'Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia' (2019). Lan's research on migration and gender has also been published in many prestigious journals such as Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mobilities, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is Regional Editor (Mainland Southeast Asia) of Asian Studies Review and Associate Editor of Springer's Global Vietnam book series. Lan's current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor and she will start a new study on the moral economy of Vietnamese undocumented migrants in Japan in late 2024.