Lakshmin A. Mudaliar is a PhD Candidate in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University. Her thesis examines the emergence of environmental migration and displacement management ‘best practices’ in the Pacific. Lakshmin is an Indian-Fijian geographer with roots in New Zealand, and she holds a Bachelor of Science, Post-Graduate Diploma of Science and Master of Science from Victoria University of Wellington, where she worked on issues of brain drain in the Pacific.