Books
Communities of Care in Migration (Palgrave, 2025)
Edited collection; editors Valerie Francisco-Menchavez and Leah Williams Veazey.
Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities (Routledge, 2021). Winner of the 2022 Raewyn Connell Prize for Best First Book in Australian Sociology.
Book chapters
- Williams Veazey, L. (2026). ‘Doing it alone or doing it my way? Work, care and ambiguous absences in migrant motherhood’ in Motherhood, Labour and Care in the 21st Century. Sydney University Press.
- Broom, A., et al. (2026). ‘The Good Death’ in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death.
- Williams Veazey, L., Broom, A., and Kirby, E. (2026). ‘Cancer‘ in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Second Edition.
- Williams Veazey, L & Boucher, A. (2025). ‘Skill, time, ethics and care: applying a migration lens to the sociology of work’ in the Handbook on the Sociology of Work. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Williams Veazey, L. (2022). ‘Mothers in the middle: Rethinking middling migration as relational’ in Shanthi Robertson & Rosie Roberts (eds.) Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration. Routledge.
- Williams Veazey, L. (2019). ‘All in the same boat? Migration and Motherhood online’ in Carole Zuffery & Fiona Buchanan (eds.) Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts. Routledge.
- Williams Veazey, L. (2018). ‘The turbulent emotions of early parenthood’ in Paula Michaels & Renata Kokanovic (eds.) Paths to Parenthood: Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Williams Veazey, L. (2016). ‘Mothering in the Digital Diaspora’ in Lorin Basden Arnold & BettyAnn Martin (eds.) Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media. Demeter Press.
Journal Articles
- Kenny, K., Broom, A., Williams Veazey, L., et al. (2026). Precarious living in the age of precision medicine: The impasse of chronic malignancy. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385261434892
- Williams Veazey, L. (2026). Towards a healthcare-education-migration nexus: how healthcare worker mobility becomes entangled in the Australian international education sector. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833261431879
- Broom, A., Byrne, H., Ehlers, N., Kenny, K., Williams Veazey, L., & Good, P. (2026). Accounting for Death: Economising (the End of) Life. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385261416276
- Williams Veazey, L. (2026). Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70095
- Williams Veazey, L., Kenny, K. & Broom, A. (2025). ‘It’s very hard to have a future when you can’t travel’: Meaning, mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241251496
- Kenny, K., Williams Veazey, L., et al (2025). Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Disorder. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241310561
- Kenny, K., Broom, A., Williams Veazey, L., & Broom, J. (2025). The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance. Science, Technology & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241311309
- Peterie, M., Ramia, G., … Williams Veazey, L. (2024). “You’re on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities’ international student mental health strategies. Australian Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.349
- Wyer, M., Hor, S., Barratt, R., Garrahy, P., Moore, C., Williams Veazey, L., … & Gilbert, G. L. (2024). Exploring the safety and quality of mobile X-ray imaging in a new infectious disease biocontainment unit: an in situ simulation and video-reflexive study. BMJ Open, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080152
- Broom, J., Williams Veazey, L. et al. (2024). To swab or not to swab? A qualitative study of pathology testing, interpretation, and value in diabetes-related foot ulceration. Infection, Disease & Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2023.10.002
- Broom, A., Williams Veazey, L., et al. (2023). The enduring effects of covid for cancer care: learning from real-life clinical practice. Clinical Cancer Research. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-0151
- Collyer, F. M., & Williams Veazey, L. (2023). The state of the discipline: Australian sociology and its future. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211041402
- Kenny, K., Williams Veazey, L. et al. (2023). Hope in the era of precision oncology: a qualitative study of informal caregivers’ experiences. BMJ Open http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065753
- Williams Veazey, L. (2022). ‘Migrant mothers and the ambivalence of co-ethnicity in online communities.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1782180
- Williams Veazey, L. et al. (2022). Paradoxes of pandemic infection control: Proximity, pace and care within and beyond SARS-CoV-2. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100110
- Broom, A., Kenny, K., Williams Veazey, L., et al. (2022). Living (well) with cancer in the precision era. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100096
- Broom, J., Williams Veazey, L., et al. (2022). Experiences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic amongst Australian Healthcare workers: From stressors to protective factors. Journal of Hospital Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.12.002
- Archer, C., Johnson, A., & Williams Veazey, L. (2021). ‘Removing the Mask: Trust, Privacy and Self-protection in Closed, Female-focused Facebook Groups. Australian Feminist Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1969518
- Williams Veazey, L. et al. (2021). Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19. Health & Place. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102693
- Williams Veazey, L. (2019). ‘Glocalised motherhood: Sociality & Affect in migrant mothers’ online communities.’ Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 3(1-2), 09.
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