By Dr Louise Olliff

Books

Olliff L, 2022, Helping Familiar Strangers Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Humanitarianism, Indiana University Press

Book Chapters

Olliff L, 2022, 'From resettled refugee to humanitarian actor: Australia’s Humanitarian Program and the (trans)formation of diaspora networks of care', in Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific, pp. 87 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97866-2

Edited Books

Phillips M; Olliff L, (ed.), 2022, Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97866-2

Journal articles

Baak M; Baddeley M; Lejukole J; Munyonge E; Olliff L; Saidi I; Treuren GJM, 2026, 'The coloniality of employment selection processes: Black Africa-born migrants’ experiences of job-seeking in (White) Australia', Journal of Industrial Relations, 68, pp. 383 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856251356641

Baker S; Olliff L; Higgins C; Yunespour AR; Button L; Bailey J, 2025, 'Harnessing Possibilities and Synergies to Refugee Complementary Migration Pathways in Australia: A Multiple Streams Analysis', Journal of International Migration and Integration, 26, pp. 2219 - 2240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-025-01281-x

Fernandez B; Olliff L; Rejón R, 2025, 'Diaspora Humanitarianism: Centring Transnational Relational Care Practices in Crisis Response', Global Networks, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob.70038

Rejón R; Fernandez B; Olliff L; Varghese D, 2025, 'Diaspora Humanitarians: How Diaspora Communities Respond to Humanitarian Crises', Voluntas, 36, pp. 191 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-024-00707-x

Olliff L; Block K; Baker S; Edwards C; Tran J, 2023, 'The Australian Research on Refugee Integration Database (ARRID): a Platform and Conceptual Framework to Map, Connect and Share Knowledge', Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24, pp. 403 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-022-00949-y

Olliff L; Baak M; Baddeley M; Lino Lejukole J; Munyonge E; Saidi I; Treuren GJM, 2022, '“We will start building from that”: Social capital, social networks and African migrants’ job-seeking experiences in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57, pp. 725 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.205

Olliff L, 2018, 'From resettled refugees to humanitarian actors: Refugee diaspora organizations and everyday humanitarianism', New Political Science, 40, pp. 658 - 674, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1528059

Olliff L, 2014, 'Refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and stories of loss and hope', Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.907174654816929

Olliff L, 2008, 'Playing for the Future: The Role of Sport and Recreation in Supporting Refugee Young People to 'Settle Well' in Australia', Youth Studies Australia

Conference Papers

Alagh A; Fernandez B; Lazzati L; Olliff L; Varghese D, 2025, 'Diaspora Dynamics: Methodological Innovations in Community-Based Research for Crisis Response', in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, Yokohama Japan, presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan, 26 April 2025 - 01 May 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720098

Reports

Higgins C; Olliff L, 2026, Submission to the inquiry into the value of skilled migration to Australia, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/submissions/2025-12-Inquiry-into-value-of-skilled-migration-to-Australia.pdf

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