<![CDATA[Fisherwomen constitute an essential yet frequently overlooked workforce in small-scale fisheries, particularly in coastal communities where intercultural dynamics shape everyday working relationships among fisherwomen, fishermen, traders, and buyers. Along the coast of Padang City, these interactions take place within the distinctive socio-cultural context of Minangkabau society, where communication involves ongoing negotiations of meaning across differing cultural expectations, kinship values, and gender roles embedded in the coastal work environment. Although previous studies have examined fisherwomen’s economic participation and gender inequality, limited attention has been paid to communication as an intercultural and lived process through which fisherwomen construct identity, solidarity, and resilience within culturally diverse work settings. This study addresses this gap by exploring the meaning of communication in fisherwomen’s everyday lives using a transcendental phenomenological approach. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation. The findings reveal three themes: communication for sustaining family resilience, communication for negotiating gender roles and identity, and communication in fostering collective solidarity. These findings led to the concept of Collective Communicative Resilience, which illustrates how intercultural communication practices simultaneously sustain family stability, negotiate identity, and reproduce solidarity within vulnerable coastal work environments. This study extends scholarship on intercultural communication and provides a foundation for gender-responsive coastal development policies.]]>
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