Publications & Events.
Conferences & Events
Articles
Books
Books
Communities of Care in Migration
Edited by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez and Leah Williams Veazey. Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2025.
This interdisciplinary edited volume for scholars of migration, transnationalism and care provides a unique, praxis-informed perspective on the often-unrecognised labour of care given and received between migrants. This book explores local and transnational relationships and practices of care as collectively produced and enacted in the lives of migrants in diverse contexts, including the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Asia, Europe, and online.
Leading and emerging scholars, community organisers and practitioners in migrant-focused NGOs from across the world draw on a range of methodological techniques, including qualitative interviews, ethnography, policy analysis, participatory action research and content analysis, to offer a fresh look on migration in action.
Articles & Book Chapters
Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia. Author: Leah Williams Veazey. Published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues. 2026.
Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the lives of migrant healthcare workers in Australia.
For these skilled migrants, the meaning of homeownership is shown to be deeply relational, embedded in the process of social and professional recognition and relationships of care. In this study, homeownership is shown to facilitate belonging in relation to place, community and care. Homeownership is associated with anchoring, settling: belonging in a place. It is associated with identity, adulthood, and social recognition: belonging in a community. And it is associated with a capacity to care for others: belonging through care.
Towards a healthcare-education-migration nexus: how healthcare worker mobility becomes entangled in the Australian international education sector. Author: Leah Williams Veazey. Published in the Journal of Sociology. 2026.
Healthcare worker migration and international student migration have received extensive attention in public, political and scholarly discourse. The paper proposes the healthcare−education-migration nexus as a framework for understanding the interdependencies of international education and Australia's healthcare workforce. Drawing on in-depth interviews with overseas-trained healthcare workers, the findings show that international education underpins the mobility pathways of healthcare workers in Australia. With policymakers proposing restrictions on student migration, this paper points to potential unintended consequences for Australia's struggling care economy.
This paper proposes five ‘exemplary entanglements’ where the systems of international education and healthcare worker migration intersect: as a safety net for healthcare workers navigating complex pathways to professional employment; a pathway for professional development; a vehicle for mobility; a facilitator of an ancillary healthcare labour force; and a relational mobility pathway for overlooked yet qualified partners of international students. Across these five exemplary entanglements, the findings undermine the constructed categorisation of international students and healthcare workers as separate and different.
Skill, time, ethics and care: applying a migration lens to the sociology of work. Authors: Leah Williams Veazey and Anna Boucher. Published as a chapter in the Handbook on the Sociology of Work, by Edward Elgar Publishing. 2025.
Bringing a migration lens to the sociology of work, the chapter draws connections between these two fields of study and brings fresh insights to core preoccupations, such as regulation, rights and resistance; time, flexibility and the conditions of work; paid and unpaid care work; sustainability and ethics; and how technological change and digitalisation are shaping the future of work.
This chapter sketches key trends in labour migration since the turn of the twenty-first century and presents statistics relating to current labour migration flows. The chapter focuses on four core concepts fundamental to understanding the intersections of work and migration: skill, time, ethics and care. Finally, the chapter outlines three trends to interrogate how migration is shaping contemporary experiences of work: how migration affects workers’ rights and opportunities for resistance; how student migration is an important yet often overlooked strand of labour migration; and the future of work in the digital age.
Conferences and Events.
TASA 2025. The Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Melbourne.
TASA 2024. The Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association. Perth.
National Settlement Conference 2025. Hosted by the Settlement Council of Australia. Sunshine Coast.
Australasian Housing Researchers Conference 2025. Sydney.
Center for Global Higher Education Conference 2026. Oxford, UK.