Johan Lindquist

Johan Lindquist received his BA degree in Cultural Anthropology from Uppsala University in 1994, and his PhD degree in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University in 2002. Lindquist has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University from 1996-1997, 1999-2000, and during the spring of 2002, and Cornell University from 2003-2004. Between 2002 and 2006 he is a postdoctoral fellow under the auspices of the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS).

Lindquist's primary research interests concern the links between globalization and migration, as well as medical anthropology, while his geographical focus is on Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Lindquist's doctoral dissertation, The Anxieties of Mobility: Development, Migration, and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands, dealt with the transnational Growth Triangle that binds together Singapore, the Malaysian province of Johor, and the Indonesian island of Batam. It focused on the lives of migrants and tourists who pass through this rapidly developing area. As a part of this project, Johan has recently completed, with filmmakers Per Erik Eriksson and Liam Dalzell, a documentary film that deals with the lives of Indonesian migrants on Batam.

B.A.T.A.M. is his first film.

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