Neither Dead nor Alive: Seafarers as Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond
- Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19start year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Dr. Louisa PiartResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
Universität Halle-WittenbergResearch 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.