ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents the story of refugee Andrew from Chin State, based on interviews, within the context of the individual’s background and nation of origin. She shows how the refugee faces the situation in accessing education globally. He fled to Malaysia seven years ago, when he was 20 years old. He is not the first person in his family to have become a refugee. After his mother's death, Andrew decided that he needed stop simply working and to think about how he could proactively change his future. His family had always believed that education was the path 'to have a better future – because they know that the refugees cannot have a better future in Malaysia,' but before this point he had concentrated on supporting his mother financially. Now that he was working part-time at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), he could save up the money that he needed to enrol in college.
