Filipino CrosscurrentsFilipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1. 2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the worlds goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents, an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural politics of seafaring, Filipino