| Becoming Tongan: An ethnography of childhood H Morton University of Hawaii Press, 1996 | 442 | 1996 |
| Tongans overseas: Between two shores HM Lee University of Hawaii Press, 2003 | 241 | 2003 |
| Pacific migration and transnationalism: Historical perspectives H Lee Migration and Transnationalism. Pacific Perspectives, 7-42, 2009 | 144 | 2009 |
| Stigmatized learners: mature-age students negotiating university culture M Mallman, H Lee British Journal of Sociology of Education 37 (5), 684-701, 2016 | 137 | 2016 |
| Rethinking transnationalism through the second generation H Lee The Australian Journal of Anthropology 22 (3), 295-313, 2011 | 137 | 2011 |
| Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives eds. Lee, Helen and Tupai Francis, Steve ANU Press, 2009 | 106 | 2009 |
| ‘Second generation’Tongan transnationalism: Hope for the future?* H Lee Asia Pacific Viewpoint 45 (2), 235-254, 2004 | 106 | 2004 |
| Creating their own culture: Diasporic Tongans H Morton The Contemporary Pacific, 1-30, 1998 | 105 | 1998 |
| ‘Second generation’ Tongan transnationalism: Hope for the future?* H Lee Asia Pacific Viewpoint 45 (2), 235-254, 2004 | 104 | 2004 |
| Transforming transnationalism: second generation Tongans overseas H Lee Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 16 (2), 157-178, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Ties to the homeland: second generation transnationalism H Lee Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| All Tongans are connected: Tongan transnationalism H Lee Globalization and culture change in the Pacific Islands, 133-48, 2004 | 55 | 2004 |
| Isolated learners: young mature-age students, university culture, and desire for academic sociality M Mallman, H Lee International Journal of Lifelong Education 36 (5), 512-525, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Debating language and identity online: Tongans on the net H Lee Native on the Net, 164-180, 2004 | 41 | 2004 |
| „Tonga only wants our money‟: The children of Tongan migrants H Lee Globalisation and governance in the Pacific Islands, 121-136, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| ‘I was forced here’: perceptions of agency in second generation ‘return’migration to Tonga H Lee Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42 (15), 2573-2588, 2016 | 33 | 2016 |
| The ambivalence of return: Second-generation Tongan returnees H Lee Return migration of the next generations: Twenty-first century transnational …, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| CEDAW Smokescreens: Gender Politics in Contemporary Tonga H Lee The Contemporary Pacific 29 (1), 66-90, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Falling through the net?: Gender and social protection in the Pacific M Jolly, H Lee, A Naupa, M Rooney UN Women, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Pacific Youth: Local and Global Futures H Lee ANU Press, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
