Hien T Nguyen

Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities, Post-Doc

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I am a researcher specialized in ageing & aged care, social care, gender and development, migration & new media. I completed my PhD at the University of Western Australia in July 2023. My thesis examines the impact of mobility on late lifecourse transitions and older-age wellbeing of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia. I also obtained a Master Degree of Development Studies (Gender & Development) the the University of Melbourne in 20145. I have had over 15 years of working as a social researcher and a development practitioner and project manager in Viet Nam and Australia. I have rich experience in conducting and leading both qualitative and quantitative research (professional in using research methods such as semi-structured interview, focus group discussion, observations, and questionnaires). I have rich experience in working with local & international organizations as well as governmental agencies in Viet Nam. I also have experience in international research (having joined several international research team); actively participating in advocacies for gender equality and rights of women, children, and older people, especially the right of vulnerable groups in Vietnam and in the world.
Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab, School of Arts and Humanities. My current scholarship focuses on social frailty, social care, migration, and diversity.
I had been awarded a number of awards such as SIDA scholarship, Australia Awards Scholarship, Australia Leadership Scholarship, Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship and UWA Postgraduate Awards.
If you need a collaborator as a social researcher and a project manager with lots of experience in social research field, please contact met at thihien.nguyen@ecu.edu.au or hien212c@yahoo.com
Supervisors: Prof Loretta Baldassar
Phone: +84402287358
Address: Unit 4 at 76 Broadway, Crawley, WA 6009

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Care visits: obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023

In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the ... more In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by Vietnamese grandparent visitors during their sojourns in Australia. Employing a grounded theory approach and care circulation framework, we investigate how grandparent visitors and adult migrant children experience and understand care and ageing in contexts of mobility, including an analysis of how gender, age, socioeconomic contexts and culture shape and affect their care norms and practices. The analysis emphasizes the critical contributions that Vietnamese grandparents make to the reproductive labour of their adult migrant children who often face challenges in balancing their family and work life. The resultant 'informal unpaid care mobility' of Vietnamese grandparents visitors creates 'informal care chains' that underscore the role of mobility as a care resource and the need for unpaid family care in migrant families due to the high cost of formal childcare in Australia. This analysis extends our understanding of the political economy of care, by highlighting the need for greater analysis of South-North informal care flows.

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Researching older Vietnam-born migrants at a distance: the role of digital kinning

Policy Press, 2021

With transnational families increasingly performing familyhood online, social researchers have s... more With transnational families increasingly performing familyhood online,
social researchers have shifted their attention to digital methods and
have also begun to document and analyse the role of Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) and what it means to engage
these technologies (Wang, Myers, and Sundaram, 2013 ; Baldassar,
Nedelcu, Merla, and Wilding, 2016 ; Alinejad and Ponzanesi, 2020 ;
Baldassar and Wilding, 2020 ). ICTs are also increasingly incorporated
into online research with migrants and their kinship networks across
countries ( Vildaite, 2019 ; Bryceson and Vuorela, 2002 ; Baldassar and
Wilding, 2020 ), facilitating multi- sited studies without the need for
costly and time- consuming travel. Online research practices became
even more dominant during the COVID- 19 pandemic because
of globally restricted physical movement and social restrictions to
minimise risk of infection. This emergency situation made our ongoing face- to- face fi eldwork in Perth and Melbourne, Australia,
non- viable. To address this challenge, we modifi ed research methods
to conduct the study online.

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Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants' Adaptation to Transnational Lives

by Hien T Nguyen and Hien Nguyen

Social Inclusion, 2022

Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnational m... more Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnational migrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital citizenship plays in supporting migrant grandparents' adaptation to increasingly mobile lives through practices of digital kinning and digital homing. These practices include using technological tools to maintain social support networks, exchange transnational caregiving, tackle language, navigation, and social integration barriers, and consume culturally relevant media, all of which support migrant identities and belongings. Findings confirm the importance of ICTs in promoting lifecourse digital learning for older migrants who are often stereotyped for their poor learning capacities and ability to adapt to new living arrangements because of their older age.

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