Johan Lindquist

Johan Lindquist is a Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and former Director of the Forum for Asian Studies. His work spans transnational migration, digital labor, and Southeast Asian modernity, with fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. He has held fellowships at SCORE (2020), Max Planck Institute (2021), and visiting roles at Harvard, Cornell, and National University of Singapore.

• Research Focus: Migration infrastructure, social media economies, gendered labor dynamics, and ethnographic studies of Southeast Asia.
• Projects: Investigates social media follower markets and migrant training programs funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Awards: Fellowships from prestigious institutions; visiting scholar appointments.

His publications address

• Transnational labor networks
• Digital platform economies
• Migrant brokerage systems
• Cashlessness and financialization

He co-edited Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity and directed the documentary B.A.T.A.M., linking academic work to artistic collaborations.

Key contributions include the concept of "infrastructuralization" in migration studies and ethnographic analyses of social media's role in global capitalism. His work bridges academic research, public policy critique, and interdisciplinary art-science projects.