Dr Rennie Lee
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Social Science Research
Director of Higher Degree Research
+61 7 334 69680
Researcher biography
Rennie Lee is a sociologist with interests in international migration, race and ethnicity, immigrant families, stratification and inequality, and quantitative research methods. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at UCLA. Prior to joining ISSR, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University and a Lecturer in Sociology at University of Melbourne.
Publications
Book Chapters
Zubrick, Stephen R., Lee, Rennie, Baxter, Janeen, Lam, Jack and Povey, Jenny (2022). Emerging directions and new challenges. Family dynamics over the life course: foundations, turning points and outcomes. (pp. 313-319) edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam,, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee and Stephen R. Zubrick. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_15
Lee, Rennie and Cheung, Sin Yi (2022). Refugee children in Australia: wellbeing and integration. Family dynamics over the life course: foundations, turning points and outcomes. (pp. 71-96) edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee and Stephen R. Zubrick. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_5
Lee, Rennie, Lam, Jack, Baxter, Janeen, Povey, Jenny and Zubrick, Stephen R. (2022). Families, life courses and the intergenerational transmission of social disadvantage in Australia. Family dynamics over the life course: foundations, turning points and outcomes. (pp. 17-36) edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee and Stephen R. Zubrick. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_2
Lee, Rennie and Baxter, Janeen (2022). Marriage matters: or does It?. Family dynamics over the life course: foundations, turning points and outcomes. (pp. 201-221) edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee and Stephen R. Zubrick. Cham, Switzerland: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_10
Baxter, Janeen, Lam, Jack, Lee, Rennie, Povey, Jenny and Zubrick, Stephen R. (2022). Introduction. Family dynamics over the life course. (pp. 1-16) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_1
Zhou, Min and Lee, Rennie (2015). Traversing ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese immigrant transnational organizations in the United States. The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents. (pp. 27-59) New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Gonzales and, Roberto G. and Lee, Rennie (2013). Second generation, identity formation. The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. (pp. 1-7) edited by Immanuel Ness. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm476
Journal Articles
Lee, Rennie and Bablani, Laxman (2023). Do Asian Immigrants Have Better Mental Health? An Examination of Arrival Cohort and Gender in Australia. Population Research and Policy Review, 42 (3) 32. doi: 10.1007/s11113-023-09761-7
Nguyen, Toan, Bernard, Aude, Lee, Rennie, Wilson, Tom and Argent, Neil (2023). Do Co-Ethnic Neighbourhoods Affect the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants? Longitudinal Evidence from Australia. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 16 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s12061-023-09505-2
Lee, Rennie, Qian, Yue and Wu, Cary (2022). Coethnic concentration and Asians’ perceived discrimination across U.S. counties during COVID-19. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 8, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/23780231221124580
Tan, Xiao, Lee, Rennie and Ruppanner, Leah (2022). The nexus between China’s global image and attitudes toward diasporic Chinese: a comparison of Australia and the United States. Journal of Contemporary China. doi: 10.1080/10670564.2022.2127087
Lee, Rennie (2022). Gendered pathways: employment behavior among family-based and skill-based immigrants in the United States. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 8. doi: 10.1177/23780231221144354
Perales, Francisco, Lee, Rennie, Forrest, Walter, Todd, Abram and Baxter, Janeen (2021). Employment prospects of humanitarian migrants in Australia: does gender inequality in the origin country matter?. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 21 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/15562948.2021.1984622
Lee, Rennie (2021). Mother-tongue maintenance in Canada: the role of the coethnic community and coethnic resources. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42 (2), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2021.1883567
Tan, Xiao, Lee, Rennie and Ruppanner, Leah (2021). Profiling racial prejudice during COVID-19: Who exhibits anti-asian sentiment in Australia and the United States?. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56 (4) ajs4.176, 464-484. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.176
Curry, Matthew and Lee, Rennie (2021). Indigenous self-identification across generations: parent–child links in Australian survey data. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49 (9), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/1369183x.2021.1914007
Zurabishvili, Tinatin, Lee, Rennie and Emigh, Rebecca Jean (2020). Death in Rural Georgia: A Historical Comparison of Georgians and Ossets in the Kistauri Commune. Journal of Family History, 45 (4), 457-478. doi: 10.1177/0363199020929679
Lee, Rennie, Ruppanner, Leah and Perales, Francisco (2020). “Making it work: Migration, motherhood and employment in Australia”. Social Science Research, 88-89 102429, 102429. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102429
Lee, Rennie (2019). Does the healthy immigrant effect apply to mental health? Examining the effects of immigrant generation and racial and ethnic background among Australian adults. SSM - Population Health, 7 100311. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.10.011
Lee, Rennie (2019). Who does the dishes? Precarious employment and ethnic solidarity among restaurant workers in Los Angeles’ Chinese enclave. Ethnicities, 19 (2), 433-451. doi: 10.1177/1468796818789455
Lee, Rennie (2018). Spousal characteristics and language use at home: immigirants and their descendants in Canada. Sociological Perspectives, 61 (6), 874-893. doi: 10.1177/0731121417753371
Lee, Rennie (2018). How are the children of immigrants assimilating? The effects of individual, neighborhood, coethnic community, and national origin group characteristics on education in San Diego. International Journal of Sociology of Education, 7 (2), 123-153. doi: 10.17583/rise.2018.2354
Lee, Rennie (2018). How do parental migration histories matter for children’s economic outcomes?. Migration and Development, 8 (1), 75-92. doi: 10.1080/21632324.2018.1474589
Lee, Rennie (2018). How do coethnic communities matter for educational attainment? A comparative analysis of the United States and Canada. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 59 (2), 139-164. doi: 10.1177/0020715218767486
Ruppanner, Leah, Lee, Rennie and Huffman, Matt (2018). Do mothers benefit from flexible work? Cross-national evidence for work time, job quality, and satisfaction. International Journal of Sociology, 48 (2), 170-187. doi: 10.1080/00207659.2018.1446119
Lee, Rennie (2018). Immigrant entry visa categories and their effects on the children of immigrants’ education. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44 (9), 1560-1583. doi: 10.1080/1369183x.2017.1362976
Lee, Rennie (2016). Doing good in the hood? The effects of coethnic concentration on the educational attainment of Mexican, Filipino, and Vietnamese children of immigrants. International Journal of Sociology of Education, 5 (3), 214-243. doi: 10.17583/rise.2016.2176
Noymer, Andrew and Lee, Rennie (2013). Immigrant health around the world: Evidence from the World Values Survey. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 15 (3), 614-623. doi: 10.1007/s10903-012-9637-z
Zhou, Min and Lee, Rennie (2013). Transnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 647 (1), 22-49. doi: 10.1177/0002716212472456
Feliciano, Cynthia, Lee, Rennie and Robnett, Belinda (2011). Racial boundaries among Latinos: Evidence from Internet dater's racial preferences. Social Problems, 58 (2), 189-212. doi: 10.1525/sp.2011.58.2.189
Conference Paper
Povey, Jenny, Marshall, David, Lee, Rennie, Lattz, Miguel, O'Donnell, Karlee, Young, Charlotte, Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, San Martin Porter, Macarena, Austerberry, Sophie and Burger, Sarah-Ann (2023). Community Refugee Integration Settlement Pilot (CRISP) Findings Workshop: Snapshot 1. Findings Workshop for the Department of Home Affairs, Brisbane. QLD, Australia, 21 March 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Working Paper
Baxter, Janeen, Campbell, Alice and Lee, Rennie (2023). Gender Gaps in Unpaid Domestic and Care Work: Putting the Pandemic in (a Life Course) Perspective. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-12. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/f986e20
Research Reports
Povey, J., Burger, S-A., Marshall, D., Lee, R., Lattz, M., O'Donnell, K., Young, C., Hoffstaedter, G., San Martin Porter, M., Austerberry, S., Nuttall, G., Baxter, J. and McDaid, L. (2023). Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (CRISP) Snapshot Report 1. Brisbane, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland.
Povey, J., Burger, S-A., O'Donnell, K., Young, C., San Martin Porter, M., Lattz, M., Marshall, D., Lee, R., Hoffstaedter, G., Austerberry, S., Nuttall, G., Baxter, J. and McDaid, L. (2023). Community Support Program (CSP): Snapshot Report 1. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Povey, J., Cook, S., Lee, R., Young, C., Hoffstaedter, G., Austerberry, S. and Nuttall, G. (2023). Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (CRISP) Interim Findings — Cohort 1. Brisbane, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland.
Povey, Jenny, Cook, Stephanie, O'Flaherty, Martin, Burger, Sarah-Ann, Lee, Rennie, Liudmila Druzenko, Karlee O'Donnell, Sharma, Nikita, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Young, Charlotte, San Martin Porter, Macarena, Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, Martin, Sean, Edwards, Ben, Baxter, Janeen and Reddel, Tim (2022). CRISP Evaluation Plan. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.