Swift, Olivia. 2019. 'Home-making on land and sea in the archipelagic Philippines'. In: T King and G Robinson, eds. At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. New York: Berghahn, pp. 268-285. ISBN 978-1-78920-142-0 [Book Section]

Swift, Olivia. 2014. International Searfarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century by Helen Sampson. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(1), pp. 179-180. ISSN ISSN: 1359-0987 [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2013. ‘In the Firing Line (Seafarers suffer the less headline-grabbing exploitation of a deregulated labour market, as well as extreme violence at the hands of pirates)’. New Internationalist, 465, ISSN 0305-9529 [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2013. ‘Port Levies and Sustainable Welfare for Seafarers’. Project Report. International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), UK Sponsored by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust.. [Report]

Swift, Olivia. 2012. 'Making sense of the state from its margins' (review of Noboru Ishikawa's Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland (2010). The Newsletter International Institute for Asian Studies., 59, [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2011. ‘Seafaring Citizenship: what being Filipino means at sea and what seafaring means for the Philippines’. Journal of South East Asia Research, 19(2), pp. 273-291. ISSN 0967-828X [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2011. ‘Developments in New Technology & Implications for Seafarers’ Welfare’. Project Report. International Committee on Seafarers’ Welfare, Croydon, UK. [Report]

Swift, Olivia. 2011. ‘Pirates at home, hostages abroad: piracy in the Philippines, Somalia and the academe’. Re-public - speicial edition, [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2010. ‘Dancing between disciplines: reflections on affinities between anthropology and choreography’. Dance Theatre Journal, 3, [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2010. ‘Welfare on water: situating welfare beyond the state’ in 'Beyond the Market and the Welfare State’. Re-public - special edition, [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2007. ‘“Natural born” sailors? reconsidering stereotypes of Filipino global seafarers’. Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao (Journal of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines), 16, pp. 1-28. [Article]

Swift, Olivia. 2007. The People's Puzzle: crosswords and knowledge politics. GARP13. Working Paper. Goldsmiths Anthropology Research Papers., London, UK. [Report]

Swift, Olivia. 2007. ‘Wwow! Two million pesos up for grabs! Wow! 30,000 hopeful contestants! Woah… 74 dead and more than 500 injured’. Left Curve, 31, [Article]