About the Speaker

Antje Missbach is a Full Professor at Bielefeld University, Germany, and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia, and she has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, the National University of Singapore, and CSIS Jakarta. She is the author of Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2015) and The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of Indonesia: State and Society in Transition (Lynne Rienner, 2020). Her latest co-edited, open-access volume is Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia (Berghahn, 2024).

Her research interests include Global migration and refugee studies; Socio-legal dimensions of irregular and forced migration in Southeast Asia; Diaspora politics and long-distance nationalism; Trafficking in persons, human smuggling and related transnational crimes in the Asia-Pacific region; Piracy and maritime security in Southeast Asia; Contemporary politics in Indonesia; Rural-urban migration and urban development in Indonesia and Malaysia; and Social deviance and marginalised kinds of existence/life-style.