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Are Seafarers Migrants? ‐ Situating Seafarers in the Framework of Mobility and Transnationalism
Author(s) -
Borovnik Maria
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2004.tb01703.x
Subject(s) - transnationalism , context (archaeology) , cruise , economic geography , sociology , container (type theory) , business , political science , geography , engineering , law , politics , archaeology , aerospace engineering , mechanical engineering
Seafarers are a unique occupational group who are recruited, by international agencies and work under contract on board ships of different kinds: merchant cargo and container ships; deep sea fishing vessels; and cruise ships. Seafarers “travel” either globally or regionally over varying distances. This paper seeks to find a place for the movement of seafarers in the existing theoretical context of labour migration. They undertake a particular type of circulatory or ‘transversal’ labour migration, and have established a special form of social identity. Locating them within theoretical migration and transnational concepts will contribute a new perspective.