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Neither Dead nor Alive: Seafarers as Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Louisa Piart

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Halle-Wittenberg

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Other

Abstract

This project investigates the impact of the pandemic on maritime labor, based on ethnographic fieldwork in German ports with seafarers and actors of different maritime institutions. Furthermore, its intention is to shed light on seafarers as relevant people to ensuring the flow of medical supplies, fossil fuels, food and essential commodities, while they are suffering greatly from the Covid-19 outbreak and their plight has gone unnoticed in the current global crisis.