In The Irrawaddy, former visiting scholar Kyaw Zwa Moe (’06) explores the uncertainty of life as a Burmese migrant in Malayasia, starting with the story of Tun Min Naing, a 21-year-old who broke of his studies at Rangoon University and crossed the border in order to better support his family:

But Tun Min Naing’s Malaysian journey ended behind bars at the Semenyih detention camp outside Kuala Lumpur, where about 1,000 illegal immigrants wait for deportation or, in rare cases, recognition as bona fide refugees. Several hundred are Burmese, many of them registered with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “Living here is terrible. But I don’t want to go back to my country,” Tun Min Naing said, sitting with other detainees behind iron bars in the visitors’ room of the camp.

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