Rate My Professor Lan Anh Hoang

Lan Anh Hoang is Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She earned her MA and PhD in Development Studies from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis in Singapore prior to joining the University of Melbourne in January 2011. Initially appointed as Lecturer in Development Studies, she progressed to Senior Lecturer from 2016 to 2020 and currently holds the position of Professor. She also serves as Chair of the Anthropology and Development Studies Discipline within her school. Her early research examined participatory approaches to natural resource management and agricultural extension in northern Vietnam's uplands, utilizing innovative methods such as the SAMBA role-playing game to enhance community adaptability and farmer adoption of sustainable livestock systems.

Hoang's research has since centered on transnational labour migration, with a particular emphasis on Vietnam-origin migrants. Her work investigates debt and unfreedoms in migration processes, gender identities and agency in migration decision-making, the impacts of remittances on family dynamics, left-behind children, masculinities in transnational families, and migrant networks in destinations like Taiwan and Russia. Recent projects explore mobilities along the Vietnam-Russia and Vietnam-Australia corridors, including digital bordering, middle-class aspirations, post-pandemic immobilities, shadow economies, post-Soviet migration regimes, and flexible moralities amid uncertainty. She authored Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and co-edited Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). Key articles include 'Sustaining Families across Transnational Spaces: Vietnamese Migrant Parents and their Left-Behind Children' (Global Networks, 2012), 'Moral Dilemmas of Transnational Migration: Vietnamese Women in Taiwan' (Gender & Society, 2016), 'Debt and (Un)Freedoms: The Case of Transnational Labour Migration from Vietnam' (Geoforum, 2020), and 'Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan' (Population, Space and Place, 2016). Her publications appear in leading journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Asian Studies Review, contributing to understandings of migration governance, gender, and social change in Asia.