Luamanuvae Luafataali’i Sa’iliemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor (Sa’ili) is a Professor of Hawaiian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii West Oahu. 

Her research interests focus on Pacific migration, development, transnationalism, diaspora and the interactive relationships of these with culture and place. 

She locates the indigenous reference explicitly in fa’a-Samoa as in concepts of Vā / social relational space, and Malaga / travel back and forth within the local and global dialectics of development processes in Oceania.