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Antje Missbach is a senior research fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Monash University in Melbourne. She obtained a PhD from the Australian National University for a thesis about the long-distance politics of the Acehnese diaspora. Her current research interests include transit migration, diaspora politics, as well as border and mobility studies. Since 2013, she has carried out ARC-funded research on people-smuggling networks in Indonesia. Her latest publications include Troubled Transit: Asylum seekers stuck in Indonesia (2015) and Linking people: Connections and encounters between Australians and Indonesians (edited with Jemma Purdey, 2015).
Rohingya Refugees in Aceh, Indonesia: Hostile Hospitality
This essay investigates what became of the many hundreds of Rohingya who were rescued from their rickety boats in the Andaman Sea in May 2015 and brought to shore in Aceh, Indonesia. It discusses the spontaneous acts of hospitality that initially greeted their arrival, the subsequent escapes by some from the camps in which they were accommodated, and the struggle by local officials and NGOs to find mid-term solutions for their care.
