Professor Antje Missbach

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  CILIS Senior Associate

Antje Missbach is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University, specialising in the study of global migration and mobility. She obtained her PhD in 2010 from the Australian National University. After postdoctoral fellowships in Berlin and Heidelberg, she joined the Melbourne Law School in 2011 as a McKenzie Fellow, conducting work on transit migration and people-smuggling networks in Indonesia.

She is the author of Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (ISEAS Yusof Publishing, 2015); The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: Asylum out of Reach (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of Indonesia: State and Society in Transition (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020, together with Jemma Purdey and Dave McRae). Her latest co-edited and open-access works include Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty (Berghahn, 2024, with Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas and Max Walden).

In her current work, she is primarily interested in the maritime journeys of Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia and Indonesia. By studying the accounts of boat journey survivors, she is hoping to help overcome the terracentricity inherent to Refugee and Migration Studies.