Hung Cam Thai

Hung Cam Thai teaches courses on immigration, Asia, and Asian American issues at Pomona College. Dr. Thai published a book on Vietnamese international marriages in 2008, and a second book on money in low-wage transnational families in 2014.

He's currently working on an ethnographic/interview-based project on "measurements of worth" in contemporary Vietnam, focusing on how people use different criteria to draw boundaries between them and others to signal status and social worth.

Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families (Stanford University Press, 2014)

For Better or For Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy (Rutgers University Press, 2008)

"Special Money in the Vietnamese Diaspora." Invited publications in Transpacific Studies. Edited by Viet Nguyen and Janet Hoskins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (2014).

"The Dual Roles of Transnational Daughters and Transnational Wives: Monetary Intentions, Expectations, and Dilemmas." 2012. Global Networks no. 12 (2):216-232.

“Transitional Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam.” Invited for publications in Southeast Asian Masculinities. Edited by Lenore Lyons and Michelle Ford. New York and London: Routledge (2012).

"The Legacy of Doi Moi, The Legacy of Immigration" Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam. (D. Belanger, ed., Stanford University Press, 2009)

“Money and Masculinity among Vietnamese Low Wage Immigrants in Transnational Families.” 2006. International Journal of Sociology of the Family. v. 32, n. 2, 247-271