My main areas of scholarship and research focus on the experiences of immigrants and refugees in Canada, at both the individual and community level; social policy as knowledge production and its effects on the lived experiences of individuals and groups; critical multiculturalism and critical refugee studies; and, social change through community action and engaged scholarship.

My approach to research is to seek out and promote marginalized voices and knowledge in collaborative partnerships with communities, and to reveal and disrupt the operations of structural power and oppression in discourse, practices, and policies. 

Recent projects I am involved with are:

• Refugee States (SSRHC Race, Gender, and Diversity Initiative)

Director: Thy Phu; Co-director: Edward OJ Lee; Collaborators: Muna-Udbi Ali, Gada Mahrouse, Laura Madokoro, Anh Ngo, Vinh Nguyen, Peter Nyers, Y-Dang Troeung

• Other empires: Interrogating the imperial conditions of refugee constitution within local colonial contexts (SSHRC Connection Grant)

Principal investigator: Anh Ngo; Co-investigators: Edward OJ Lee, Gada Mahrouse, Vinh Nguyen

• Using photovoice to capture the housing-related needs of Vietnamese seniors in the GTA (SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant)

Principal investigator: Anh Ngo; Community partner: Golden Age Village for the Elderly

Nobe-Ghelani, C., & Ngo, A. (2020). In search for ethical relations in social work with refugees communities: reflections on the syrian refugee “crisis”. Canadian Social Work Review/Revue canadienne de service social, 37(1), 63-79.

Ngo, A. (2019). The flag of refugees: A critical ethnography of a Vietnamese Canadian community conflict. ESC: English Studies in Canada 45(3).

Ngo, A. (2016). “Journey to Freedom Day Act”: The making of the Vietnamese subject in Canada and the erasure of the Vietnam War. Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale, (75).

Ngo, A. (2016). A case study of the Vietnamese in Toronto: Contesting representations of the Vietnamese in Canadian social work literature. Refuge, 32, 20.

Selection of courses I currently/recently taught

SK315: Practice with Individuals

SK433: Working with Immigrant and Refugee Peoples

SK805: Applied Qualitative Research Methods