Saima is a social and cultural historian who works on histories of race, empire, and immigration.
Committed to multi-archival and interdisciplinary research, her research contributes to developing comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in the fields of migration and imperial studies. Saima’s first book (forthcoming) examines the transnational trajectories of Britain’s East African Asian population. She has also worked on the history of trauma in relation to post-war Irish diasporic communities.
Saima is currently leading a five-year Leverhulme Trust funded project on ‘Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism’.
She has sat on the editorial boards of ‘Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora’, ‘History’ and ‘Twentieth Century British History’.
Saima is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol.