Events
EASG Talk - Dr. Xu Peng on Scam Logistics
Location: S0.11
EASG Talk Friday 31st October 2025, 14:15-15:30
Dr. Xu Peng on Scam Logistics: Building and Governing the Digital Illicit Economy in China–Southeast Asia Borderlands
Venue: S0.11, Social Sciences Building/Microsoft Teams
In this talk, Dr. Peng explores the establishment and governance of scam centres of China-Southeast Asia borderlands. Rather than aberrations, Dr. Peng reveals how they function as infrastructural regimes responsible for moving people, money and persuasion at scale, mapping how brokers, zonal governance, and platform routines convert illegality into predictable circulation. Come join us for a fascinating discussion on an understudied region and understudied phenomenon.