Maria Borovnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 6002440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Borovnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Borovnik |
| SIGNATURE | BOROVNIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4115-4116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trapped in the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper builds on the situation of seafarers, who found themselves stuck in the global crew change crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis, caused by countries going into lockdown and closing their borders, had affected more than 400,000 seafarers worldwide. Some were stranded overseas, some were trapped aboard ships and others were waiting in transition. A number of international organizations highlighted safety and human right…
Storying Pandemia Collectively
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of academic geographers got together across borders to share our varied experiences. In this paper we illustrate how this storying of pandemia helped us critically and collaboratively understand, (re)imagine and reconfigure ways of living during a global pandemic. We were especially interested in exploring different forms and practices of collective thinking and academic labour, within and b…
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
This book is a valuable contribution, particularly in light of the current global refugee situation. Not only does it outline a need to rethink the rights and politics of resettlement, it also emphasises settlement as a transnational, connecting practice of belonging. Distinguishing between these two notions, this book stresses that in a refugee situation belonging is contextual, political, and multilayered. Challenging one-sided assumptions that…
The mobilities, immobilities and moorings of work-life on cargo ships
Despite the rather obvious mobilities of cargo ships there are not so obvious immobilities. Both are negotiated through global economic processes, the (ir)regular and repetitive processes of ships crisscrossing international waters and encountering ports of differing nation states, and the agency of people involved in these processes. This paper argues that so called fixities within a mobilities approach do not only enable mobile processes, as as…
Occupational health and safety of merchant seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu
Intensifying international competition in the shipping industry in response to global pressures makes seafarers' jobs increasingly difficult. Challenging conditions in ship employment are problematic, particularly in a development context where home communities' dependence on seafarers' income is high and social protection is low. Qualitative fieldwork revealed that seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu endure exceptionally lengthy work periods at s…
Migration als Räumliche Definitonsmacht? Beiträge zu einer neuen Geographie der Migration in Europa ‐ By Felicitas Hillmann
Labor Circulation and Changes among Seafarers' Families and Communities in Kiribati
This paper critically examines the social and cultural elements involved in seafaring and explores how a seafaring lifestyle has affected aspects of the te katei ni Kiribati, the “I-Kiribati way of life.” The decision to undertake contract labor requiring a work life apart from families is one way to maximizing socio-economic benefits, where the hardship of being away from home over extended periods is endured in order to maintain and benefit fam…
Working overseas
Remittances sent home by seafarers employed on international merchant and fishing ships are a significant income component for the Kiribati economy, with immediate benefits for families and communities. This paper explores the strategies used and the amounts sent by seafarers to their family members by drawing on different data sets, such as remittances data kept in the form of allotment lists by employment agencies, and comparing these with inte…
Seafarers' “Maritime Culture” and the “I‐kiribati Way of Life”
This paper aims to examine how seafarers from the Pacific Republic of Kiribati cope with the experience of working with crews of different nationalities, and, further, how the exposure to different cultures during their journeys through international waters influences both their own identity as well as their perceptions of I‐Kiribati culture. Based on examples from open and semi‐structured interviews with seafarers working on German merchant ship…
The mobilities, immobilities and moorings of work-life on cargo ships
Despite the rather obvious mobilities of cargo ships there are not so obvious immobilities. Both are negotiated through global economic processes, the (ir)regular and repetitive processes of ships crisscrossing international waters and encountering ports of differing nation states, and the agency of people involved in these processes. This paper argues that so called fixities within a mobilities approach do not only enable mobile processes, as as…
Working overseas
Remittances sent home by seafarers employed on international merchant and fishing ships are a significant income component for the Kiribati economy, with immediate benefits for families and communities. This paper explores the strategies used and the amounts sent by seafarers to their family members by drawing on different data sets, such as remittances data kept in the form of allotment lists by employment agencies, and comparing these with inte…
Labor Circulation and Changes among Seafarers' Families and Communities in Kiribati
This paper critically examines the social and cultural elements involved in seafaring and explores how a seafaring lifestyle has affected aspects of the te katei ni Kiribati, the “I-Kiribati way of life.” The decision to undertake contract labor requiring a work life apart from families is one way to maximizing socio-economic benefits, where the hardship of being away from home over extended periods is endured in order to maintain and benefit fam…
Trapped in the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper builds on the situation of seafarers, who found themselves stuck in the global crew change crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis, caused by countries going into lockdown and closing their borders, had affected more than 400,000 seafarers worldwide. Some were stranded overseas, some were trapped aboard ships and others were waiting in transition. A number of international organizations highlighted safety and human right…
Storying Pandemia Collectively
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of academic geographers got together across borders to share our varied experiences. In this paper we illustrate how this storying of pandemia helped us critically and collaboratively understand, (re)imagine and reconfigure ways of living during a global pandemic. We were especially interested in exploring different forms and practices of collective thinking and academic labour, within and b…
Occupational health and safety of merchant seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu
Intensifying international competition in the shipping industry in response to global pressures makes seafarers' jobs increasingly difficult. Challenging conditions in ship employment are problematic, particularly in a development context where home communities' dependence on seafarers' income is high and social protection is low. Qualitative fieldwork revealed that seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu endure exceptionally lengthy work periods at s…
Seafarers' “Maritime Culture” and the “I‐kiribati Way of Life”
This paper aims to examine how seafarers from the Pacific Republic of Kiribati cope with the experience of working with crews of different nationalities, and, further, how the exposure to different cultures during their journeys through international waters influences both their own identity as well as their perceptions of I‐Kiribati culture. Based on examples from open and semi‐structured interviews with seafarers working on German merchant ship…
Working overseas
Remittances sent home by seafarers employed on international merchant and fishing ships are a significant income component for the Kiribati economy, with immediate benefits for families and communities. This paper explores the strategies used and the amounts sent by seafarers to their family members by drawing on different data sets, such as remittances data kept in the form of allotment lists by employment agencies, and comparing these with inte…
Labor Circulation and Changes among Seafarers' Families and Communities in Kiribati
This paper critically examines the social and cultural elements involved in seafaring and explores how a seafaring lifestyle has affected aspects of the te katei ni Kiribati, the “I-Kiribati way of life.” The decision to undertake contract labor requiring a work life apart from families is one way to maximizing socio-economic benefits, where the hardship of being away from home over extended periods is endured in order to maintain and benefit fam…
Migration als Räumliche Definitonsmacht? Beiträge zu einer neuen Geographie der Migration in Europa ‐ By Felicitas Hillmann
Occupational health and safety of merchant seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu
Intensifying international competition in the shipping industry in response to global pressures makes seafarers' jobs increasingly difficult. Challenging conditions in ship employment are problematic, particularly in a development context where home communities' dependence on seafarers' income is high and social protection is low. Qualitative fieldwork revealed that seafarers from Kiribati and Tuvalu endure exceptionally lengthy work periods at s…
The mobilities, immobilities and moorings of work-life on cargo ships
Despite the rather obvious mobilities of cargo ships there are not so obvious immobilities. Both are negotiated through global economic processes, the (ir)regular and repetitive processes of ships crisscrossing international waters and encountering ports of differing nation states, and the agency of people involved in these processes. This paper argues that so called fixities within a mobilities approach do not only enable mobile processes, as as…
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
This book is a valuable contribution, particularly in light of the current global refugee situation. Not only does it outline a need to rethink the rights and politics of resettlement, it also emphasises settlement as a transnational, connecting practice of belonging. Distinguishing between these two notions, this book stresses that in a refugee situation belonging is contextual, political, and multilayered. Challenging one-sided assumptions that…
Storying Pandemia Collectively
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of academic geographers got together across borders to share our varied experiences. In this paper we illustrate how this storying of pandemia helped us critically and collaboratively understand, (re)imagine and reconfigure ways of living during a global pandemic. We were especially interested in exploring different forms and practices of collective thinking and academic labour, within and b…
Trapped in the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper builds on the situation of seafarers, who found themselves stuck in the global crew change crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis, caused by countries going into lockdown and closing their borders, had affected more than 400,000 seafarers worldwide. Some were stranded overseas, some were trapped aboard ships and others were waiting in transition. A number of international organizations highlighted safety and human right…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 works)