WHEN he arrived in Malaysia in 2016 from Afghanistan, university graduate Ali Saleh* begged for a job wherever he could.
“We fled to Malaysia because of my social activism. When we got here, I was desperate. We had spent almost everything we had to pay the smugglers to get us to Malaysia. I didn’t know how we were going to survive here,” he says .
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