Publications

Peer Reviewed:

  1. Le, Andrew N. 2025. "The Way of Migrant Brokers: Power, Competition, and the Misconversion of Capital." Forthcoming in Social Problems.
    * ASA Section on International Migration, Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award, 2021.
    * ASA Section on Theory, Best Student Paper Award (formerly Shils-Coleman Award), 2021.
    * UCLA Professor Harry H. L. Kitano Academic Prize, 2021.

  2. Walker, Edward & Le, Andrew N. 2022. “Poisoning the Well: How Astroturfing Harms Trust in Advocacy Organizations.” Social Currents.

  3. Le, Andrew N. 2022. “Broker Wisdom: How Aspiring Migrants Navigate a Broker-Centric Migration System in Vietnam.” Sociological Forum.
    *Winner of the Sociological Forum’s 35th Anniversary Graduate Student Paper Competition, 2021.  

  4. Le, Andrew N. 2022. “The Homeland and the High Seas: Cross-Border Connections between Vietnamese Migrant Fish Workers’ Home Villages and Industrial Fisheries.”
    Maritime Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s40152-022-00272-3

  5. Le, Andrew N. 2021. “Unanticipated transformations of infrapolitics.” The Journal of Peasant Studies.
    * ASA Section on Asia & Asian America Best Article Award, 2011.
    * UCLA Professor Harry H. L. Kitano Academic Prize, 2016.

  6. Le, Andrew N. 2020. “Upward or downward? The importance of organizational forms and embedded peer groups for the second generation.” Ethnicities 20:1, 136–154.

  7. Le, Andrew N. 2019. “Episodic Ethnicity: A Case Study of a Japanese Buddhist Temple.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45:15, 2989-3006.

Works-in-progress:

  1. Le, Andrew N. "When All the Fish are Dead: Environmental Disaster and the Moral Economy of Migration in Vietnam."

  2. Le, Andrew N. “Incorporation During Dark Times: The Effects of the COVID-19 on second generation Vietnamese-Americans.”

  3. Le, Andrew N. "Brokering Power and Resistance: A Middle Range Theory Between State Legibility and Everyday Resistance."

  4. Le, Andrew N. “It’s Too Hot to Incorporate! Climate Change and Immigrant Incorporation in the Valley of the Suns.”

Other Writings:

  1. Le, Andrew N. 2020. “A Patient Approach: Research Access in the Aftermath of Vietnam’s Worst Environmental Disaster.” Sectors: Newsletter of ASA’s Sociology of Development Section. To read: click here (newsletter website)

  2. Le, Andrew N. 2017. Review of Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families by Hung Cam Thai. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Social Forces. 95(4): e36. To read: click here (journal website)