My Hang Thi (My Hang) Bui
BEd (Hanoi National University of Education), MA (Seoul National), PhD (Seoul National)
College roles
Margaret Anstee Centre Research Fellow (B)
Biography
Dr My Hang Thi Bui is a Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Trained as a human geographer, her work engages with migration, gender, cities, and development.
My Hang holds an MA and PhD in Geography from Seoul National University (South Korea) and a BEd in Geography Education from Hanoi National University of Education (Vietnam). Her PhD dissertation on transnational sister city partnerships between South Korea and Vietnam received the 2024 PhD Dissertation Award from the Seoul National University Asia Center.
Before joining Cambridge, My Hang held fellowships at the Seoul National University Asia Center and the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University (The Netherlands). During Spring 2025, she taught a postgraduate course titled Inter-Asian Intimacies: Southeast Asian Marriage Migration to East Asia, hosted by the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies consortium at Cornell University.
Research Interests
Dr My Hang Thi Bui is currently researching intraregional flows of people and capital, transnational city networks, and development in East Asia, between South Korea and Vietnam in particular. She has a particular expertise in marriage migration.
My Hang’s work draws on multi-sited, multi-ethnic, and multilingual ethnography, emphasising how international migration and cross-border partnerships not only contribute to poverty alleviation and democratisation in the so-called Global South but also play a crucial role in sustaining development in the Global North, particularly in the super-aged societies of Northeast Asia. Drawing on Asian and inter-Asian perspectives, her project at Cambridge, The Treasurable South, seeks to rethink and reposition the Global South on the world stage and in institutions of knowledge production.
You can check out My Hang’s documentaries on the stories of immigrants in South Korea on People Broadcasting.
