antje missbach

Antje Missbach, Ph.D.

  • Visiting Scholar
  • 2017-2018 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia
616 Serra StreetEncina Hall E301Stanford, CA94305-6055
(650) 724-5594 (voice)
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Biography

Antje Missbach joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center (Shorenstein APARC) during fall 2017 from Monash University, Melbourne, where she serves as a senior research fellow at the School of Social Sciences. Her research interests focus on socio-legal dimensions of irregular migration in Southeast Asia; trafficking in persons, human smuggling and related transnational crimes in the Asia-Pacific region; global asylum policies and refugee protection as well as diaspora politics and long-distance nationalism. During her time at Shorenstein APARC, she will work on a number of issues regarding formal and informal refugee protection in Indonesia and the wider region. Antje is the author of Troubled transit: asylum seekers stuck in Indonesia, (2015) and Politics and conflict in Indonesia: the role of the Acehnese diaspora (2011) and the co-editor of Linking people: Connections and encounters between Australians and Indonesians (2015 with Jemma Purdey). She regularly writes opinion pieces for The ConversationInside Indonesia, and Jungle World. She holds a Ph.D. from The Australian National University, Canberra and a Magister from Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany.