The Filipino Seafarer: A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping

Lamvik, Gunnar Martin

doi:10.3167/aia.2012.190104

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“…Migration has intensified since, with nearly a third of shipping manned by Filipino male workers (Lamvik, 2002) and Filipina women becoming recognized throughout the world for domestic and care work (Parreñas, 2001). Rather uniquely, the Philippine state has played a pivotal role in the intensification of overseas migration through policies that have systematically promoted and encouraged the phenomenon (Acacio, 2008;Asis, 2005), 'steering itself to become a major source country of workers' (Asis, 2005: 27).…”

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Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Madianou

Miller

2011

New Media & Society

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The Philippines is an intensely migrant society with an annual migration of one million people, leading to over a tenth of the population working abroad. Many of these emigrants are mothers who often have children left behind. Family separation is now recognized as one of the social costs of migration affecting the global south. Relationships within such transnational families depend on long--distance communication and there is an increasing optimism among Filipino government agencies and telecommunications companies about the consequences of mobile phones for transnational families. This article draws on comparative research with UK--based Filipina migrants -mainly domestic workers and nurses -and their left--behind children in the Philippines. Our methodology allowed us to directly compare the experience of mothers and their children. The article concludes that while mothers feel empowered that the phone has allowed them to partially reconstruct their role as parents, their children are significantly more ambivalent about the consequences of transnational communication.

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Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Madianou

Miller

2011

New Media & Society

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“…Lamvik (2002) has also drawn attention to the liminal character of seafarers' working environment, and liminality has been suggested as a contributory factor in the sexual behaviour of young holidaying Britons-the holiday providing a setting where individuals can temporarily disregard the statuses, responsibilities and patterns of behaviour carried by them, and expected of them, in their lives at home (Thomas 1999(Thomas , 2005a.…”

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Sexual risk among female workers on cruise ships

Thomas

Bloor

Little

2013

WMU J Marit Affairs

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Data were combined from two studies-qualitative interviews with 19 female cruise-ship workers in a Florida port and 192 quantitative interviews conducted with male and female cruise-ship workers in a European and a Florida port. High rates of partner change were reported in the latter sample: 39 % reported two or more sexual partners in the past year. Logistic regression analysis of 16 different variables showed that gender was the variable most strongly independently associated with a new sexual relationship: women were six times more likely than men to report a new private sexual relationship on their last contract (OR 6.20, 95 % confidence interval 2.01-19.09); 39 % of the female crew reported a new private relationship on their last contract, compared to 16 % of the men. Qualitative data suggest some reasons for this gender imbalance: sexual harassment by male superordinates, the taking of a lover for protection from harassment and the liminal character of shipboard life. Parallels are drawn with other studies depicting risk behaviour as situated actions (i.e. shaped by the material and social circumstances in which the action occurs), and with studies which see women's greater propensity to risk behaviour in some settings as shaped by power relationships.

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“…Behind this is the sheer scale of migration from the Philippines, both the better known export of domestic labour, carework and nursing for women, and the less well known migration of men to work as seafarers and for construction in the Middle East (e.g. Lamvik, 2002). Even by modest official estimates we are dealing with a migration of at least 8 million people which constitutes ten per cent of the Philippine population (Asis, 2008).…”

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Should You Accept a Friends Request From Your Mother? And Other Filipino Dilemmas

Miller¹,

Madianou²

2012

International Review of Social Research

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This paper uses the concept of `cutting the network' derived from the work of Marilyn Strathern to examine the relationship between two kinds of social network, that of kinship and the system of friends constructed on social networking sites. Specifically the material comes from a study of Filipina domestic workers and nurses in the UK and their relationship to their left behind children in the Philippines. A bilateral system of kinship can lead to a proliferation of relatives, while the use of the Friendster social networking site can lead to a proliferation of friends. It is when these two systems clash following the request by one's mother to become a friend that the constraints and problems posed by both systems comes into view. Cases show that it is possible to use social networking sites to help mothers become close friends for their absent children, but more commonly the increasing presence of actual mothers through new media disrupts the relationships that children had developed for themselves to a idealised projection of motherhood.

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The Filipino Seafarer: A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping

Cited by 18 publications

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Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Sexual risk among female workers on cruise ships

Should You Accept a Friends Request From Your Mother? And Other Filipino Dilemmas

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