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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Thuy Duong  ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnamese Australian]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Refugees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thuy &quot;Lisa&quot; Duong Nguyen was a refugee whose family lived in Hong Kong for three years before resettling in Australia. She speaks about her advocacy work with Vietnamese refugees in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia. Lisa is the founder of Senhoa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia. She graduated from a Bachelor of Law and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. After a short stint in corporate law, Lisa left Australia to volunteer as a legal representative and advocate for stateless Vietnamese refugees remaining in the Philippines. Since this time, she has worked extensively on issues relating to refugee protection. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Executive Director of VOICE in Washington D.C. and worked on overseeing the resettlement of nearly 300 stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines to Canada. In 2010, Lisa founded and became the first Executive Director of Senhoa Foundation. For her community service work, she was awarded the Order of Australia Association Medal for Community Services and Young Australian-Vietnamese of the Year. Outside of her nonprofit work, Lisa is a host for Asia Entertainment Inc., a variety musical production company with over 4 million viewers worldwide and top promoter of Vietnamese artists and entertainers. Lisa also hosts the Asia Channel, a popular show on Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN), based in California and is available on Comcast and DirecTV.<br />
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This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
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Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Thuy &quot;Lisa&quot; Duong Nguyen was a refugee whose family lived in Hong Kong for three years before resettling in Australia. She speaks about her advocacy work with Vietnamese refugees in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia. Lisa is the founder of Senhoa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia. She graduated from a Bachelor of Law and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. After a short stint in corporate law, Lisa left Australia to volunteer as a legal representative and advocate for stateless Vietnamese refugees remaining in the Philippines. Since this time, she has worked extensively on issues relating to refugee protection. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Executive Director of VOICE in Washington D.C. and worked on overseeing the resettlement of nearly 300 stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines to Canada. In 2010, Lisa founded and became the first Executive Director of Senhoa Foundation. For her community service work, she was awarded the Order of Australia Association Medal for Community Services and Young Australian-Vietnamese of the Year. Outside of her nonprofit work, Lisa is a host for Asia Entertainment Inc., a variety musical production company with over 4 million viewers worldwide and top promoter of Vietnamese artists and entertainers. Lisa also hosts the Asia Channel, a popular show on Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN), based in California and is available on Comcast and DirecTV.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Thuy Duong Nguyen]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Audio and Video Recorder: Ted Acheson]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[oral histories]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Thuy, Nguyen Duong, interview by Nancy Bui. July 27, 2012. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Phillipines]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Australia]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></dcterms:coverage>
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