Samid Suliman

Samid Suliman is Senior Lecturer, Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). Samid is a political scientist with broad interests in migration, mobility, development, security and climate change. He is currently working on projects that include: theorising the relationship between (international) migration and (national) development; exploring the tensions between human infrastructural developments and avian mobilities along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway; documenting development-induced displacement in Manipur, India; understanding contemporary art spaces as sites of Pacific regionalism; applying aesthetic concepts to understanding border politics; and; examining alternative visions for climate mobility governance in the Pacific region.