STUDENT’S TEA WITH MR MARCEL BANDUR AND MR HOSSAIN MAHABUB

Host: Deesha Menon

Marcel is a volunteer at TWC2 Discover Singapore, which is a programme that brings migrant workers on outings to various places of interest around the island. He is also a Research Assistant at the Asia Research Institute (ARI). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters (Soc Sci) in Political Science and at ARI, he supports research projects sponsored by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) grant on ‘Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia’. His research interests include Asian Urbanism, Maritime Security, and Southeast Asian Regionalism.

This tea session is intended to be a part of Migrant Workers Awareness Week, which is an annual event, slated to run in March 2017. The session (which will ideally be open to all UTown residents) will give students an opportunity to hear from a migrant worker (especially one from the construction sector – people we encounter every day but almost never interact with), as well as learn more about volunteering for their cause. Sign-ups will be disseminated at the end should students want to be further involved and volunteer for MWAW 2017.

6 February 2017, 4.30pm – 5.30pm

Level 1 Common Lounge, Tembusu College