Professor Helen Sampson is the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre based within the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University

"Although the fundamental question addressed by the book is fairly theoretical, the arguement is illustrated by much vivid, poignant and often amusing material from Sampson's observation and interviews"(Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19th June 2014), Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 June 2014

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. All at sea2. Transnationality and structured space3. Changes in the shipping industry and their consequences for contemporary seafarers4. Transmigrant seafarers in Germany5. Life on board: ships, hierarchy, and workloads6. Physical places and social spaces: seafarers at work and rest7. Nationality and transnationality at sea8. The transnational household?9. On transnationalism, people, and spaceBibliography

Professor Helen Sampson is the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre based within the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University

"Although the fundamental question addressed by the book is fairly theoretical, the arguement is illustrated by much vivid, poignant and often amusing material from Sampson's observation and interviews"(Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19th June 2014), Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 June 2014

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. All at sea2. Transnationality and structured space3. Changes in the shipping industry and their consequences for contemporary seafarers4. Transmigrant seafarers in Germany5. Life on board: ships, hierarchy, and workloads6. Physical places and social spaces: seafarers at work and rest7. Nationality and transnationality at sea8. The transnational household?9. On transnationalism, people, and spaceBibliography

Professor Helen Sampson is the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre based within the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University

"Although the fundamental question addressed by the book is fairly theoretical, the arguement is illustrated by much vivid, poignant and often amusing material from Sampson's observation and interviews"(Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19th June 2014), Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 June 2014

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. All at sea2. Transnationality and structured space3. Changes in the shipping industry and their consequences for contemporary seafarers4. Transmigrant seafarers in Germany5. Life on board: ships, hierarchy, and workloads6. Physical places and social spaces: seafarers at work and rest7. Nationality and transnationality at sea8. The transnational household?9. On transnationalism, people, and spaceBibliography