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Phuong An Nguyen
Supervisors: Maree Higgins, Andrew Brooks
Phuong An (Anna) Nguyen is a PhD Candidate at UNSW School of Social Sciences, with an educational background in Communications and Public Policy. She completed a Master of Public Policy & Governance at UNSW in 2025. Being a woman of colour and the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she is incredibly passionate about human rights, and justice, particularly for negatively racialised, and LGBTIQA+ communities. Anna is currently the Co-convenor of the Forced Migration Research Students Network, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute.
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Phuong An's research area is forced migration and anti-racism, grounded in First Nations solidarity, decolonisation, and intersectionality. Her Master's thesis researched the influence of the Fraser Government’s policy framing and surrounding political discourse on Vietnamese refugee intake and resettlement. She is currently conducting her PhD research on the process of racialisation in policy and media, with focus on Australia's recent refugee and asylum-seeker responses.