Hear Dr. Angie Tran talk about her upcoming talk @ 11:30, May 11th

Professor Angie Ngọc Trần teaches political economy and global studies at CSU Monterey Bay since 1996. She was born and raised in Vietnam, from which she escaped by boat at seventeen. An activist scholar, she has been publishing on transnational labor migration and resistance in Vietnam and Malaysia, and researching on Mexico and the US, using fieldwork interviews with migrant workers, workers’ families, labor unions, journalists, government and corporations.  

Her 2022 book, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia, looks at the plight and fight of five ethnic groups from Vietnam sent to Malaysia by the Vietnamese Labor Brokerage State. Her articles on Vietnamese domestic workers in Saudi Arabia exposed appalling working and living conditions that migrants faced in Saudi homes and how they overcame the exploitation of the bilateral labor agreement, exacerbated during Covid-19.

Dr. Tran has been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation grant to research on the precarities of Mexican migrant workers working in California under the US H-2A visa program, and how they utilize their networks to improve their lives.

Locally, she is active in the California Faculty Association at CSUMB, and co-founded the Coalition for Asian Justice for Asian and Asian-American rights. 

Please note: scholarships are available. If you are interested, please contact us.