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The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries
Heeding the call to examine industrial fisheries with a migratory lens, this article explores how homeland processes in Vietnam—linked to the 2016 chemical spill—affect migrant fish workers’ work on the high seas. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Vietnam and Taiwan, my paper relay...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9226277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00272-3 |
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description | Heeding the call to examine industrial fisheries with a migratory lens, this article explores how homeland processes in Vietnam—linked to the 2016 chemical spill—affect migrant fish workers’ work on the high seas. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Vietnam and Taiwan, my paper relays two findings. First, the disaster’s negative consequences undermined many men and women’s ability to adequately contribute to household subsistence. Second, the inability to sustain livelihoods in Vietnam compelled migrant fish workers to exchange longer, and potentially more hazardous, workdays for additional wages and wage advances. These findings illustrate the benefits of studying industrial fisheries with a transnational prospective and can be applied to other contexts, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-92262772022-06-24 The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries Le, Andrew Nova Marit Stud Research Heeding the call to examine industrial fisheries with a migratory lens, this article explores how homeland processes in Vietnam—linked to the 2016 chemical spill—affect migrant fish workers’ work on the high seas. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Vietnam and Taiwan, my paper relays two findings. First, the disaster’s negative consequences undermined many men and women’s ability to adequately contribute to household subsistence. Second, the inability to sustain livelihoods in Vietnam compelled migrant fish workers to exchange longer, and potentially more hazardous, workdays for additional wages and wage advances. These findings illustrate the benefits of studying industrial fisheries with a transnational prospective and can be applied to other contexts, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-06-24 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9226277/ /pubmed/35765313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00272-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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title | The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
title_full | The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
title_fullStr | The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
title_full_unstemmed | The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
title_short | The homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between Vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
title_sort | homeland and the high seas: cross-border connections between vietnamese migrant fish workers’ home villages and industrial fisheries |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9226277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00272-3 |
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