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Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach

Arbeitsbereich 6: Soziologie der Transnationalisierung und Sozialanthropologie

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Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach

Professur für Mobilität und Migration

antje.missbach@uni-bielefeld.de

Telefon: +49 521 106-4636
Telefon Sekr.: +49 521 106-4639
Raum: Gebäude X D2-220

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Curriculum Vitae

ARBEITSERFAHRUNGEN (English version below)

• ab März 2021
Professorin (W2) für die Soziologie der globalen/transnationalen Mobilität und Migration, Universität Bielefeld

• Nov. 2018 – Feb. 2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Arnold-Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg

• Feb. 2014 – Dec. 2019
Senior Lecturer am Fachbereich für Ethnologie, Monash Universität, Melbourne

• Juli 2011 – Juni 2014
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow an der Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

• Okt. 2010 – Juli 2011
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology an der Ruprecht-Karl-Universität in Heidelberg

• April 2010 – Sept. 2010
Postdoctoral fellow an der Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies

• April 2005 – März 2006
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Modernes Südostasien an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

FELDFORSCHUNGSAUFENTHALTE UND FELLOWSHIPS

• Sept. 2017 – Feb. 2018
Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Stanford University and National University of Singapore

• Aug. 2015
Visiting Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP), Berlin

• Jan. – Juni 2012
Visiting Fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta

• September 2009
Fellowship am Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

• Sept. – Okt. 2008
Fellowship am Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Stud-ies (KITLV) in Leiden, Niederlande

• Juli – August 2008
Feldforschung in Malaysia, Aceh (Indonesien) und Schweden

• Nov. 2006 – Nov. 2007
Feldforschung in Malaysia, Aceh (Indonesien), Dänemark, Schweden, Norwegen und den USA

• August 2006
Fellowship am Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm

• Nov. 2006 – Juni 2007
Fellowship an der Peace Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang (Malaysia)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• March 2021
Professor of Sociology for global/transnational Mobility and Migration, University of Bielefeld

• Nov. 2018 – Feb. 2021
Senior research fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg

• Feb. 2014 – Dec. 2019
Senior lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Monash University, Melbourne

• July 2011 – June 2014
McKenzie postdoctoral fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

• Oct. 2010 – July 2011
Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ruprecht-Karl-University in Heidelberg

• Apr. 2010 – Sept. 2010
Postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Berlin

• Apr. 2005 – Mar. 2006
Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND FIELDWORK

• Sept. 2017 – Feb. 2018
Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Stanford University and National University of Singapore

• Aug. 2015
Visiting fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP), Berlin

• Jan. – June 2012
Visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta

• Sept. 2009
Visiting fellowship at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin

• Sep. – Oct. 2008
Visiting fellowship at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carib-bean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands

• July – Aug. 2008
Fieldwork in Malaysia, Aceh, Sweden

• Nov. 2006 – Nov. 2007
Fieldwork in Malaysia, Aceh, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and USA

• Aug. 2006
Fellowship at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm

• Nov. 2006 – June 2007 Fellowship at the Peace Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang (Malaysia)

Aktuelle Forschungsthemen

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Globale Flucht- und Migrationsforschung, vor allem
- politische Aspekte von Vertreibung und Asylpolitik in Südostasien
- sozio-legale Dimensionen von (ir)regularisierter Migration
- Kriminalisierung von Grenzüberschreitungen und die Strafverfolgung von transnationalen Straftaten (people smuggling and trafficking in persons)
- Selbstorganisation von Geflüchteten und Überlebensstrategien
- Rolle von NGOs und internationalen Organisationen für MigrantInnen und Geflüchtete
politische Einflussnahme von Diasporas und long-distance Nationalismus
Gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche und politische Entwicklungen in Indonesien

Key research interests

Global migration and refugee studies, particularly
- Political aspects of forced displacement and asylum policies in Southeast Asia
- socio-legal dimensions of (ir)regularised migration
- criminalisation of border transgressions and prosecution of transnational crimes (people smuggling and trafficking in persons)
- self-organization of refugees and survival strategies
- role of NGOs and international organizations for migrants and refugees
Diaspora politics and long-distance nationalism
Contemporary politics in Indonesia

Forschung

Forschungsstatement

My research interests are founded in enduring political questions about the opportunities and limits of human connections and political power across distances. My interdisciplinary background merges thorough theoretical knowledge with my regional expertise in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, which has grounded former and current research topics and will continue to drive my future research projects.

I work at the intersection of Area Studies (Southeast Asia Studies in particular) and Sociology, connecting with other disciplines that are key to the study of belonging, migration and political identity, including Anthropology, Political Science, and Law. I employ a broadly critical approach to Area Studies scholarship, combining theoretical inquiry with empirical field research and grounded, qualitative methods. I have fostered academic engagements and personal ties with Indonesia since 1996. My research has also been informed by periods of extended fieldwork in Indonesia (more than 30 months in total), Malaysia, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the United States

My research interests are shaped by a concern for the injustices that characterise contemporary migration and border regimes, a desire to understand the political, social and legal factors that shape human mobility and transregional flows, and a commitment to scholarship that contributes to positive social change. My previous and current research interests span over five broadly inter-related areas of inquiry:

separatist movements and conflict transformation
diaspora politics and long-distance involvement in “home country” developments
forced mobility, transit migration and the search for durable protection
people-smuggling and trafficking in persons
contemporary Indonesian politics

New and upcoming research foci

Together with students and colleagues I am interested in critically studying ongoing changes concerning border controls and deterrence mechanisms, such as maritime interceptions and offshore detention, as well as the border struggles and the criminalization of solidarity that result from those changes.

In light of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that has produced novel and unanticipated experiences of isolation, confinement, as well as social, economic and legal exclusion around the globe, my upcoming research involvement will also pay attention to regional and international mobility/migration restrictions and how they were legitimised and implemented. In particular, I am interested in how lockdowns, curfews, quarantine, social distancing and other mobility controls have affected people’s mobility in the Global South. For migration scholars, without any doubt, there will be many lessons to be learnt from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The pandemic forces people around the globe to re-negotiate and re-define rules and norms of mobilities previously taken for granted. It will be important to understand emerging frictions and, more significantly, to scrutinize overtly pragmatic but inherently unfair mobility solutions in regard to the ‘normalization’ of migration and mobility practices during and after the pandemic. The coming challenges, risks and opportunities will render the world oddly connected and disconnected at the same time. Combining the prolific stimuli from the classical migration studies and their focus on political problematizations of global divides with the broader foci of im/mobility studies onto geographic settings in the Global South, may prove to be very fruitful when it comes to achieving a greater sensibilization for urgent challenges in theory and practice in the context of the ‘new normal’.