Are Seafarers Migrants? ‐ Situating Seafarers in the Framework of Mobility and Transnationalism |
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| Authors: | Maria Borovnik |
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| Affiliation: | Research Scholar at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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