The Politics of Migration in Indonesia and Beyond (PDF)

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.