Production of Filipino Cruise Ship Workers
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description: This thesis traces the subject/worker/citizen from their emergence as graduating students from a maritime school to workers’ experiences on board cruise ships. The production of the worker in the cultural framework of the family home, school, and workplace is explored. Using a qualitative methodology nine students from a merchant marine school in the Philippines were interviewed. Twenty-five cruise ship workers who had worked for at least one year were also interviewed to explore their workplace experiences. The findings present a decline in the dominance of Filipino seafarers due to the inadequacies of educational institutions serving the maritime industry. The concept of Filipino-ness provides an understanding of the limits to advancement of Filipinos in the cruise ship industry due to the impact of culture and history.
abstract: This thesis traces the subject/worker/citizen from their emergence as graduating students from a maritime school to workers’ experiences on board cruise ships. The production of the worker in the cultural framework of the family home, school, and workplace is explored. Using a qualitative methodology nine students from a merchant marine school in the Philippines were interviewed. Twenty-five cruise ship workers who had worked for at least one year were also interviewed to explore their workplace experiences. The findings present a decline in the dominance of Filipino seafarers due to the inadequacies of educational institutions serving the maritime industry. The concept of Filipino-ness provides an understanding of the limits to advancement of Filipinos in the cruise ship industry due to the impact of culture and history.
author: Coloma-Moya, Nel
language: eng
keywords: Cruise Ship Workers, Filipino-ness, Labour outmigration
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
date published: 2024-05-08
date modified: 2026-07-27T20:35:43Z
provider: Queens University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Queens University

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value: https://hdl.handle.net/1974/33060