Award for BGHS member Ngoc Luong

Ngoc Luong, BGHS member and doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, has been awarded the VSG Graduate Essay Prize by the Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) in the Association for Asian Studies. Her contribution entitled "Betting on the Future: Financial Activities by Migrant Factory Workers in Vietnam" was chosen by the selection committee as the best text by a young scholar this year. We congratulate her very warmly!

Since the winter semester 2020/21, Ngoc has been doing her doctorate on the topic of "Moral Struggles and Politics of Care under Market Socialism: Welfare provision for migrant workers in global factories in Vietnam" at the BGHS and is working in Prof. Minh Nguyen's EU research project WelfareStruggles. The photo shows Ngoc doing field research in Vietnam.

(Copyright: Ngoc Luong)