Seafaring citizenship: what being Filipino means at sea and what seafaring means for the Philippines
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Swift, Olivia (2011) Seafaring citizenship: what being Filipino means at sea and what seafaring means for the Philippines. South East Asia Research, 19 (2). pp. 273-291. ISSN 0967-828X
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This article considers international seafarers’ experiences of being Filipino aboard ship. Existing scholarship on overseas Filipino workers has focused on land-based migration, neglecting the experiences of Filipino seafarers – who dominate the international seafaring labour market – and the space of the ship as an important site in which diasporic identities are mediated. The author argues that seafarers’ experience of being ‘in the same boat’ provides a metaphor for the state’s promotion of a particular form of seafaring citizenship that enables and encourages mobility.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | [1] Published in South East Asia Research, Volume 19, Number 2, June 2011 - Mediated Diasporas - Material Translations of the Philippines in a Globalized World. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | seafaring, shipping, migration, post-colonial nation-state, nationhood, Philippines |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| School / Department / Research Groups: | Greenwich Maritime Institute |
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| Last Modified: | 10 May 2012 15:20 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/7186 |
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