Welcome!
My name is Andrew Nova Le (he/him/his). I am a Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and Faculty Associate at The Asia Center at Arizona State University. I received my PhD from the Sociology Department at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
My research interests are in international migration, race & ethnicity, political & global sociology, social theory, and qualitative research methods in the Asia and Asian American context.
My research has been published in various venues including Social Problems, Journal of Peasant Studies, Sociological Forum, Social Currents, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
I pride myself on teaching and mentorship! I have received UCLA’s inaugural Silton Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award and Teaching Assistant Award. At ASU, I’ve received a Professor of Impact Award.
My book project, Brokerage: The Journey Abroad for Vietnamese Men, is an ethnographic study examining how the privatization of migration control has constrained the freedom of Vietnamese persons to leave their country, and yet how migrants still subvert migration control to earn a livelihood abroad.
My research is global with sites in Vietnam, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
“What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.”
— James C. Scott
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."
-Hannah Arendt