The Politics of Migration in Indonesia and Beyond

Part I: Indonesia.- Chapter One: Transmigration as Ideological Policy.- Chapter Two: Development-Migration-Conflict.- Chapter Three: Demographic Engineering and Displacement.- Chapter Four: Decentralization and Inequality.-Chapter Five: East Sulawesi Province? The Politics of Transcending Boundaries.- Chapter Six: The Failure of Nation-Building Project?.- Part II: Beyond Indonesia.- Chapter Seven: Malay World and the Politics of Space.- Chapter Eight: Cross-Border Migration and the Nunukan Tragedy.- Chapter Nine: In the Margin of a Borderland: Florenese Community in Sabah.- Chapter Ten: The Making of a Minahasan Community in Oarai, Japan.- Chapter Eleven: Migration, Ethnicity and Conflict in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Twelve: Migration-Development-Security Nexus - In Search of New Perspectives in the Changing East Asian Contexts.- Sources of Book Chapters.- References.- Index.- Author's Biography.

Tirtosudarmo obtained his PhD in social demography (1990) from the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University. Since 1980, he has been working with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and became a senior researcher at the Research Center for Society and Culture. His research interests include migration, urbanization, political demography, ethnicity and territorial politics. Since 2000, he has focused on the social transformation in Java's north coast cities, the politics of cultural heritage and local adat communities in Java. He was also a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Brown University (1996-1997), Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, 2000-2001), Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Refugee Studies Center, Oxford University (Michaelmas Term, 2002), Visiting Professor at the Research Institute of Language and Culture, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2003-2004), Visiting Researcher at KITLV, Leiden (March-April 2008) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (July-September 2008). Tirtosudarmo has been publishing extensively in scientific journals on political demography and the politics of population mobility in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He has also published several books and is an international editorial board member of various journals.