Production of Filipino Cruise Ship Workers

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.

Department dc:contributor.department

Geography and Planning

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Coloma-Moya, Nel

Advisor dc:contributor.supervisor

• Kobayashi, Audrey

• Cruise Ship Workers
• Filipino-ness
• Labour outmigration

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

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

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:queensu.scholaris.ca:1974/33060