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Issue no. 2 | 2021

migrant workers to swallow their pain and mistreatment.
Silenced, they succumb to the abuse to avoid being
deported back to their country, thus losing their income.
Not to forget, their mental health is affected due to their
employers’ tight control on their movement and activity.

However, the biggest takeaway from this workshop is
that ideas and verbal communication can shape and
change pre-existing narratives that are placed on our
migrant workers.
Some of the participants at the end the Advoc8 on the Road
(University Edition) x Universiti Malaya Workshop
The workshop recommended ways to stop this toxic
The event also emphasized the need for cycle of discrimination by changing our perception
acknowledgement of the violence faced by these towards women migrant workers and respecting them
domestic workers in the hands of their agents and equally as other human beings. We can also educate our
employers. More often than not, violence is triggered by loved ones to be kinder and more empathetic towards
the imbalance in power dynamics causing most women them.

A Meaningful Milestone:
Release of the Inaugural IRSOC e-Magazine

BY SHARUMATHI KAVI RAJAN
document these happenings and share milestones,
3RD YEAR
experiences, and lessons learnt from our time in the
B.A. INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES
THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE IR SOCIETY department.

What started as an informal discussion between the
The newly released Volume I covers various happenings
International Relations Society (IRSOC) Committee during the 2020/21 academic session. This particular
2020/21 has finally culminated in the release of the period is notable as we experienced both offline and
inaugural IRSOC Bulletin on April 30th, 2021. This
online learning. Although it was a challenging experience
inaugural edition marks the beginning of an annual e-
for all of us, it was also the driving force for IRSOC to
magazine publication effort by IRSOC under the conduct various activities to keep our students
Department of International and Strategic Studies. connected. The magazine also contains sharings by our
fellow students and alumni, such as outbound
Both IRSOC and the department have conducted and
experiences, thoughts on the study of International
participated in various activities related to the study of Relations, and external involvements in line with the spirit
International Relations. This e-magazine serves to of international peace and security. Furthermore, this
issue includes reflections by international students on
their overall learning experience here.

Little did we know that the e-magazine would become a
glue binding lecturers, staff and students of IRSOC and
the department, especially during these strange times. As
part of the editorial committee, looking back at the
‘Undergraduate Photo Album’ brings back lots of valuable
memories that I will cherish. With that, we would like to
humbly share this little milestone with all the members of
the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Malaya.
We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we have
enjoyed creating it.

Visit the issue here:
https://simplebooklet.com/irsocbulletin.

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