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Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia, written by Antje Missbach

Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia, written by Antje Missbach Antje Missbach, (2015) Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. 289 pages. ISBN: 978-981-4620-56-7.As an anthropologist, I usually presume that a book on refugee and asylum seekers is concerned with dreary analysis of top-down policy and diplomacy. Consequently, I often end up putting the book back on the shelves in spite of my curiosity to deeply understand this important contemporary issue. This book by Antje Missbach is a remedy for my stereotypical assumptions on the study of refugee and asylum seekers in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, or even in global context. Indeed, this erudite work should be a recommended to scholars for the elaborate methodology it uses to understand the current situation of transit migrants, and the author’s sensitivity in positioning her understanding of transit situations into broader debates on migration, refugee and asylum seekers. By offering an interesting way in bridging micro analysis with a wider context of international regulations, states policy-political orientation and global situations, this will also appeal to a wider audience.In explaining the rise of refugee and migrant issues, the books offer a lucid analysis beyond the debates of migrants among social scientist that are still trapped in legalistic perspective. Instead, Missbach’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia, written by Antje Missbach

Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 45 (1-2): 3 – Jan 1, 2017

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1568-4849
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1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/15685314-04501010
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Abstract

Antje Missbach, (2015) Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. 289 pages. ISBN: 978-981-4620-56-7.As an anthropologist, I usually presume that a book on refugee and asylum seekers is concerned with dreary analysis of top-down policy and diplomacy. Consequently, I often end up putting the book back on the shelves in spite of my curiosity to deeply understand this important contemporary issue. This book by Antje Missbach is a remedy for my stereotypical assumptions on the study of refugee and asylum seekers in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, or even in global context. Indeed, this erudite work should be a recommended to scholars for the elaborate methodology it uses to understand the current situation of transit migrants, and the author’s sensitivity in positioning her understanding of transit situations into broader debates on migration, refugee and asylum seekers. By offering an interesting way in bridging micro analysis with a wider context of international regulations, states policy-political orientation and global situations, this will also appeal to a wider audience.In explaining the rise of refugee and migrant issues, the books offer a lucid analysis beyond the debates of migrants among social scientist that are still trapped in legalistic perspective. Instead, Missbach’s

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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